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County Zoning Proposal Sparks Concerns

Religious freedom, wildlife protection rules at odds?

A Deschutes County proposal to allow churches in areas zoned to help deer, elk and antelope has a land use group and a state agency concerned about the impacts on wildlife that need undisturbed tracts of land for habitat, food and migration. A proposal before the county planning commission seeks to change the county’s comprehensive plan […]

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A Bigger Kid on the Block

Corvallis’s Block 15 completes a sorely-needed expansion

Walk into Block 15’s brand-spanking-new production facility on the far south side of Corvallis, and you’ll think they are a much larger brewery than they actually are. Originally opened in early 2008, Block 15’s brewpub in downtown Corvallis has been pumping out brews of exceptional quality for thirsty OSU students and other mid-Willamette Valley dwellers. […]

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What Do You Do With A Dead Deer?

All day long the tune  “what do you do with a drunken sailor” has been skipping through my mindโ€”except the replacing some of the key words with “dead deer.”  As I padded around my house this morning, with a cereal bowl in my hand, I looked out the windowโ€”and saw a deer laying dead by […]

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