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By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter Over lunch at a local restaurant I heard a young man complaining to his pal about his relative state of boredom since arriving home on college break. I think I laughed out loud. Not wanting to come off as impolite or eavesdropping, I pretended I was watching some funny […]
By Dave Bates For the Observer-Reporter I confessed, from the beginning, that I could in no way adequately fill the big shoes left by George Block, the Observer-Reporter’s longtime outdoors writer. That was 53 installments ago. I like to think that I would have made George chuckle a few times over the last year. Other […]
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