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Central Oregon city’s historic railroad chugging toward growth
Matt Wiederholt remembers the boom days of the sawmills in Prineville. Trucks hauled logs out of the Ochoco National Forest to seven mills in town. ...
Clayton Franke, Author at The Other Oregon
The Land
Ochoco Preserve restoration turns farmland to floodplain near Prineville
On an exposed hilltop in the Ochoco Preserve outside Prineville, Gabriel Juarez carefully places palm-sized forbs inside shallow holes in the soft earth. He puts ...
by Staff reports, Thursday, December 26, 2024 5:00 am
Cover Story
The Big Cheese: How Tillamook grew to help its farmer-owners
The Tillamook County Creamery Association has enjoyed a rapid rise from regional dairy brand to national powerhouse, with annual sales jumping nearly 250% to more ...
by Staff reports, Thursday, December 26, 2024 4:45 am
The Culture
What next, America? Join your local pothole committee!
The recent presidential election confirmed what we already know — politically, the country is half and half; divided; polarized; fractured; split. Many folks are concerned ...
by Staff reports, Thursday, December 26, 2024 4:45 am
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Baker City’s illuminated cross is shining again
One of Baker City’s beloved Christmas traditions — a giant, lighted cross — was sprawled across a good portion of Mike Voboril’s shop on the ...
by Staff reports, Thursday, December 26, 2024 4:30 am
Columns
Editor’s note
I met Nella Mae Parks more than six years ago at Oregon State University’s Small Farm Conference. She was a young farmer from Cove, Ore., ...
by Staff reports, Thursday, December 26, 2024 4:30 am
The Land
La Pine is home to a record-setting ponderosa pine
The ponderosa pine with the largest circumference on record is in La Pine State Park. At one point, it was also designated the world’s tallest ...
by Staff reports, Thursday, December 26, 2024 4:00 am
Feature Stories
New southern Oregon makerspace becomes hub for innovation and inclusion
With the completion of its state-of-the-art 8,000-square-foot community makerspace, Talent Maker City (TMC) is poised to become Southern Oregon’s center for inspired innovation. Based in ...
by Staff reports, Sunday, December 8, 2024 2:26 pm
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Bend’s Ellen Waterston named Oregon Poet Laureate
Longtime Bend poet and nonfiction author Ellen Waterston has been appointed Oregon Poet Laureate by Gov. Tina Kotek. The Oregon Cultural Trust, which funds the ...
by Staff reports, Friday, September 27, 2024 6:30 am
Feature Stories
On the fire line: A tour of the Falls Fire showed the power, unpredictability of a big blaze
The Falls Fire began on July 10 in the vicinity of the Falls Campground, about 25 miles northwest of Burns on the Malheur National Forest’s ...