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Outdoors: First day buck caps a challenging year
Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
December 6, 2025
This year was certainly a study in contrasts. During spring gobbler season a day seldom went by without rain. I was heartily sick of the rain after 2 ...
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Of great Thanksgivings past
Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
November 27, 2025
Thanksgiving, from my earliest memories, has always been one of color, food and family. My grandfather and grandmother, Art and Bertha Hayes, had four...
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Outdoors: Angel on my shoulder
Local Sports, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
November 22, 2025
The headlights cut the blackness as I approached the turnoff. Leaves swirled across the road, the strong gusty wind whirling them in circles. I parked...
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Handloading: Crafting perfection
Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
November 15, 2025
Back when I was much younger, factory ammunition more often than not left something to be desired when it came to accuracy. Col. Townsend Whelen’s fam...
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Why hunt? ‘I am and I must’
Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
November 8, 2025
It’s amazing the numerous skills hunters must acquire and master to be successful in the field, skills we come to take for granted. Non-hunters have n...
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Fun’s over after the trigger’s pulled
Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
November 1, 2025
After two fruitless days of hunting in the seemingly never-ending rain, Saturday at last promised some relief from the wet. Despite our stand's proven...
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Death by rainbow trout? Almost
Outdoors
By WADE ROBERTSON 
October 25, 2025
As human beings we see many unexpected things transpire in our lives. The old saying: Truth is stranger than fiction,  is absolutely true and just thi...
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Life is an endless series of stories
Outdoors
By WADE ROBERTSON 
October 18, 2025
“Oh, he’s just telling stories,” someone commented. I was shocked; why had this person spoken so? Was it jealousy of the attention it drew to the stor...
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African heartbeat
Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
October 10, 2025
Something's absent since I’ve returned from Africa. My luggage wasn’t lost and though there was a temporary mixup in Paris where the baggage people co...
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