Oregon Zoo's 'Canned Doo' a boon for local gardens
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
PORTLAND - In an effort to keep community gardens from withering due to low budgets and a slow economy, the Oregon Zoo is offering something that's sure to stimulate growth: free poop. Zoo herbivores produce more than a million pounds of waste per ...

Pump's closing drives natural gas car phaseout
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
The City of Hillsboro's fleet of 17 compressed natural gas-fueled vehicles will soon be obsolete. The cars, which have reliably carried city workers on local trips since 2001, are losing their fuel source. Bretthauer Oil, at 453 SW Washington St., has ...

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Taste: From their bog to your Thanksgiving dinner
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Oregon cranberries also have a longer growing season than East Coast cranberries, making them larger, darker and riper when harvested. Oh -- and if you bite into a cranberry and the seeds are brown, it's ripe. Q: What does a good cranberry taste like?

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Taste: From their bog to your Thanksgiving dinner
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Oregon cranberries also have a longer growing season than East Coast cranberries, making them larger, darker and riper when harvested. Oh -- and if you bite into a cranberry and the seeds are brown, it's ripe. Q: What does a good cranberry taste like?

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Taste: From their bog to your Thanksgiving dinner  OregonLive

Taste: From their bog to your Thanksgiving dinner  OregonLive.com

Gretchen Farr and her husband, Randy, are cranberry farmers in Port Orford, part of a growing collaborative of farming families who have adopted sustainable ...

Taste: From their bog to your Thanksgiving dinner  OregonLive.com

Grand Central Bakery's Cranberry-Apple Chutney. Makes 2 quarts. When cranberry farmers Gretchen and Randy Farr come to Portland, they head to Grand ...

Taste: From their bog to your Thanksgiving dinner  OregonLive.com

Gretchen Farr and her husband, Randy, are cranberry farmers in Port Orford, part of a growing collaborative of farming families who have adopted sustainable ...

Taste: From their bog to your Thanksgiving dinner  OregonLive.com

Gretchen Farr and her husband, Randy, are cranberry farmers in Port Orford, part of a growing collaborative of farming families who have adopted sustainable ...

Hillsboro Elks in gear for Christmas basket program
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
The Hillsboro Elks' Christmas basket program is under way. The lodge will need drivers on Saturday, Dec. 19, to help deliver food and toys to needy families in Hillsboro. The deliveries will begin at 8 a.m. For more, call Cathy Swanson, chair for the ...

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Coquille Tribe harvesting organic cranberries
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Related Stories. Oregon cranberries: A 360-degree look at the industry (interactive graphics, photos & video). 'Top Chef' Season 12: Was a Portland chef's goose cooked in a Thanksgiving challenge?

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Murder victim found in river at Cornelius park
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
The body of a Hillsboro man apparently beaten and stabbed to death during a robbery earlier this month was found Friday night in a section of the Tualatin River that flows through a Cornelius park, leading to murder charges for two other Hillsboro ...

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Oil seed for bio-fuels gives Oregon farmers a lift
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Doug Beghtel/The OregonianOregon canola sales have soared from $286,000 in 2006 to $1,176,000 last year. Kent Madison raises canola seed on his Eastern Oregon farm near Echo. Behind him is a truckload of the high-protein canola feed left over after ...

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Combine Destruction Derby, BBQ, parade this weekend in Banks
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
One of Washington County's most smashing good times is slated for this weekend, with the Banks Barbecue and Combine Destruction Derby at Sunset Park. The 10th annual Combine Destruction Derby is slated for 5 p.m. Sunday, with a car blow up to follow.

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'Good guy' nematodes chase bad cranberry pests  Life at OSU

Oregon Senate passes sex-education bill
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A bill clarifying requirements for sex education in Oregon's public school won final passage in the Senate today with little debate. House Bill 2509 passed along party lines by a vote of 20-9 with all opposition from Republicans. The bill requires all ...

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Convict loses ruling in UP slaying A court rejects Deniz Aydiner's claim that ...
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The Oregon Court of Appeals rejected a Turkish man's claim that Portland police violated an extradition treaty by using "trickery and deceit" to get him to return to Portland where he was charged in the death of a University of Portland student. Deniz ...

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Bend loses Cessna plant Citing the recession and public anger, the small ...
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Few could have predicted that fury at Detroit executives for riding private jets would buffet central Oregon's free-falling economy months later. But the improbable fallout appeared Wednesday as Cessna Aircraft Co. -- whose sales have plummeted because ...

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Ex-pro wrestler dies in Vancouver
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Champion - Paul R. Perschmann, 56, was known as "Playboy Buddy Rose" Paul R. Perschmann, a professional wrestler better known as "Playboy Buddy Rose," died Tuesday in his Vancouver home, the Clark County medical examiner's office announced.

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Mexican farm expert lobbies for NAFTA change
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
Oaxaca, Mexico-based agriculture expert Baldemar Mendoza Jimenez works with rural communities that abide by a traditional form of self-organization, including a system of community service. But this system, Jimenez says, was nearly destroyed by the ...

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