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I am happy to offer you my top tip for shrugging off this season of sadness. Make your way to Tudek Dog Park, with or without a canine, and you’ll leave with a smile on your face. A certain warmth exudes from the dogs and their human owners that can only be described as infectious.

This is the time of year when gardeners become very concerned about insect populations attacking their plants.The online sites are teeming with people bemoaning mites, hoppers, loopers, worms, gnats, ants, borers, miners, maggots and weevils destroying their hard work of planting and maintaining yar

Almost exactly 11 years ago the call of the open road became so loud in our house that the only way to quiet it was to purchase an RV. So we did: a 36’ Class A with a queen bedroom in the rear and two bunkbeds for the kids near the middle, opposite the bathroom.…

Happy Valley felt different on the morning of Tuesday, June 30. And the change was not for the better, at least from my perspective. Folks tuning in to radio 1390 that day from 6 to 9 a.m. got national programming instead of the familiar voices of Jeff Byers and Gary Sinderson.

Don’t worry, you won’t need to mask up or bust out the wipes before reading this column.

We need all hands on deck to defeat the coronavirus. That means all of us doing our part and controlling what we can control to assist. It means making some short-term sacrifices for long term gains.

  While reflecting on this pandemic last week I found myself hoping that when this is over the local warehouse club announces they are extending my membership since they’ve been out of stock so much. And that the U.S. Department of State extends the expiration of my mostly useless passport. Although I’m guessing probably…