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Growing grains workshop for gardeners scheduled for Graham

  A workshop on how to grow grains suitable for the rainy, cold weather of western Washington will be held next Tuesday, March 1, at 7 pm, at the Elk Plain Grange, Anuttama Budd has announced.  The workshop is free … Continue reading

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Mountain memories – a road trip with dad

The Day I Could Have Lost to “Busy” and “Soon” by Candace J. Brown on http://goodlifenw.blogspot.com   I hung up the phone after talking to Dad and thought about how much I’ve overused, believed in, and lived by the word … Continue reading

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Marmot madness on Mt. Rainier

      Originally posted on journalist Candace J. Brown’s Good Life Northwest blog, and published here with her kind permission.  http://goodlifenw.blogspot.com/2010/08/marmot-madness-videos-and-more.html   Marmot Madness– videos and more  While hiking on a rocky slope at Mount Rainier, a friend of mine enjoyed the … Continue reading

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News for Graham – week of Feb. 21, 2011

 by Wayne Cooke,  (253) 847-4614    The March 2nd Self-Reliant Community meeting will focus on the Seven Tasks for self-reliance, (helpful to new members), discussing specifically how we might create a “neighbor net” of a group of “interdependent” neighbors, actually … Continue reading

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A jewel of nature – the Nisqually Wildlife Refuge

  The National Nisqually Wildlife Refuge, carved from a large part of the Nisqually River Delta on Puget Sound, has been transformed into a shimmering gem of a wildlife area due to the recent de-construction of the old agricultural dikes … Continue reading

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Beth Rossow – Woman of the Mountain, Siren of the Sound

  Beth Rossow is well-known to many of us who live in the shadow of Mount Rainer as the long-time office manager of the Pierce County Fair, having served in that capacity for 37 years.      

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Pet Industry resistive to recession, Graham entrepreneurs claim

  Nancy and Regis Jackson, owners of the Pet Ponderosa Resort and Spa in Graham, told the Graham Business Association today that they have weathered the Great Recession, along with most other kennel operators and pet product manufacturers. The Jacksons … Continue reading

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Graham News, February 15, 2011

The Self-Reliant Community  At the next Self-Reliant Community Meeting on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, we will review the seven tasks needed to gain self-reliance and discuss specifically how we might create a closer “neighbor net” of a group of “interdependent” … Continue reading

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The Hunt for DB Cooper – an interview with retired FBI agent, Ralph Himmelsbach

   On January 30, 2011, I interviewed Ralph Himmelsbach, the now-retired FBI agent who had been the lead agent for the Bureau’s Portland, Oregon office in the DB Cooper case.  Mr. Himmelsbach, a career FBI agent, served as Portland’s lead Cooper investigator … Continue reading

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Why Hunt for DB Cooper?

   A commentary on the resurgent investigation into America’s only unsolved skyjacking   Perhaps one of the biggest crime mysteries to involve the lands of the Mountain News is the DB Cooper skyjacking case.  It may also be one of … Continue reading

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