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Mary Colborn

Opinion

This year, your summer wasn’t better than mine

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Summertime, when the living is ugly

I have poison ivy across my arms and legs and even on my feet. Now, I’m old enough…

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I still care — I just don’t bleed as much as I used to

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There are many unconventional paths to wellness

As the warmth spreads around my knee caps, I giggle and then laugh out loud. “That’s amazing,” I…

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Teen entrepreneur pushes the limits of what’s possible

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Washek carries on SK tradition of mural artistry

He walked the streets of town, paint brush in hand. Times were tough. Men everywhere were out of…

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Local dynamo giving seniors a passionate voice

“The boomers are coming! The boomers are coming!” she sings out in this lovely voice with a grin…

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D.J.’s Music set to play its sad, final notes soon

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If they were hurting or hungry, Lynne nourished them

She sat at the bottom of the stairway, holding a sign that read, “Pregnant and Homeless.” As cars…

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Dance Gallery a place to nurture — and be nurtured

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News

Special Athletes cap their special season

They’re like shaken soda bottles — bouncy and fun and filled with a joy and laughter that flows…

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Helpline wants to operate its own nursery? Why not?

“What if?” she asked in her quiet, modest way. “What if we buy it?” For Barbara White-Davis, who…

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Her music has a way of transcending my pain

Synchronicity is defined as, “a coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related.” In the class I’m…

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SK couple’s journey of discovery a lesson for us all

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When we ignore the victims, we encourage more attacks

It started as a prick of conscience. Not like the prick of conscience that suggested I should stop…

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Snow doing its best to put a damper on my holiday plans

It started off a joyful day as I awakened to an all white world.

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SK’s George Bailey learns what we think of him

Everyone knows and loves the story, a perennial Christmas favorite.

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Firman’s book resonates when we need resonating most

It came to her in a dream.

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Washington company a ‘green-building’ model

On the middle shelf at eye level, it posed, alluring and tantalizing.

Life

West Sound Quilters stitch together a community | Column

“To Kill a Mockingbird” ranks as one of my son and daughter’s favorite books. Right up there with…