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• Some simple steps can help you avoid mail theft - 2:00 am
  

  Of late there's been a little bit of coverage in the Mail Tribune on the mail theft ring that was broken up recently.

• Acorn woodpeckers have odd, but strangely familiar rivalries - 2:00 am
  

  They broke ground, such as it was, tentatively. This was their new home. And they'd changed their minds before.

• Nuggets of history on the Fattig homestead - 2:00 am
  

  Medford resident Myrna Turnbough Bradley isn't laying claim to the 1907 Indian head penny we unearthed last month on our Sterling Creek property...

• Of sitting ducks, and their mothers - 2:00 am
  

  The call over the police scanner was routine, a minor accident had caused a traffic hazard and an officer was sent to the scene.

• 100 years of life and lessons for local retired schoolteacher - 2:00 am
  

  Before the three boys graduated from the eighth grade at the one-room Derby School in the spring of 1940, teacher Ruth Kaye and her husband took her...

• Kobe should be glad he didn't have building blocks, too - 2:00 am
  

  Happy Mother's Day Mrs. Bryant! I hear your basketball-star son, Kobe, is suing you for "stealing" his boyhood stuff and putting it up for auction.

• A state microbe is the yeast of our problems - 2:00 am
  

  Did you realize that Oregon has been careening through its history without a state microbe? Well, sir, the Oregon House has just passed a measure...

• Cursives, I'm foiled again by progress - 2:00 am
  

  My handwriting resembles tracks left by an inebriated chicken lurching across the yard, stopping randomly to retch.

• Passing the days with some intelligent porkers - 2:00 am
  

  "Sanctuary! Sanctuary!" Richard Gere's line from "The Runaway Bride" was ringing through my head as I drove along winding country roads in the...

• Full-service gas stations are a thing of the past - 2:00 am
  

  The letter states the wiring in my 10-year-old car's dashboard has a factory flaw.

• Outsmarting the swat took time, and a wise teacher - 2:00 am
  

  When it comes to corporal punishment, you could call Larry Slessler the master of swat.

• In the unlikely event of having a comfortable airplane seat - 2:00 am
  

  What's the difference between Dracula and an airline president? One is an insatiable, blood-sucking monster, and the other is a vampire.

• Fear, panic and chaos, but also heroism - 2:00 am
  

  "All in all, this has been a tough week. But once again, the character of the United States has been revealed.

• Legacy as large as a mountain, or rather 2 - 2:00 am
  

  With today's Our Valley issue focusing on folks who left an indelible mark on our region, a visit with native son Vernon Arnold is in order.

• Clowns to the left of him ... jokers to the right - 2:00 am
  

  As is the case with most things these days, the blame for the kerfuffle, the hubbub, the brouhaha, the uproar, the contretemps, the tempest in a...

• What's science, what's not - 2:00 am
  

  Out of the blue come letters to the editor attacking evolution, which is to say, biology.

• It was just another lazy day by the river - 2:00 am
  

  "An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth."

• Excursion was a pain in the butt - 2:00 am
  

  Mental flotsam in the form of a long-forgotten memory popped up when remote Baldface Creek surfaced in today's news.

• The end of the Internet is closer than you think - 2:00 am
  

  According to information collected and provided over the Internet, it has been determined that 62 million Americans do not use the Internet.

• Veggie run is off-limits for me now - 2:00 am
  

  Although she is one of the nicest humanoids you could ever meet, my wife doesn't budge once she plants her feet.

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