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Salinas announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture would fund five new renewable energy projects on farms in Oregon.

AURORA – On the heels of U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas announcing that five Oregon farms will receive money from the federal government for solar energy projects, other farmers told Salinas

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Mark Lichty, 73, said it took a decade for him to overcome the anxiety, fear of death, and uncertainty about the future after he was diagnosed with low-grade prostate cancer in 2005.

Dropping the C word would curtail anxiety and reduce overtreatment, some experts have argued, but not everyone embraces the idea.

Be patient. You will find blessings in your prostate cancer journey.

NCCN removed 'preferred' status for active surveillance in low-risk disease

On May 18, 1971, Pennsylvania’s voters by a four-to-one margin ratified what is now Article I, Section 27 of our state constitution– the ERA that provides in part: The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Franklin, over 50 years ago, saw the terrible carnage that the coal industry had visited on our state’s Streams.  He conceived of creating an amendment to the constitution which w...

Pocono Record Thank you for running our piece about a month ago on Al Rokers diagnosis of Prostate cancer. We did not make clear in that piece that both authors, Howard and I, were diagnosed with prostate cancer many years ago and chose not to have treatment. I decided on active surveillance — monitoring of the cancer without treatment — 15 years ago. The decision was based to a large extent on the potential of devastating side effects from treatment. I have not looked back. It is not the ...