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Next week, on Monday, March 17th, we celebrate our annual St. Patrick’s Irish Holiday. I am proud that I have some Irish ancestry in that my mother was 100 percent Irish. Let us now take at look at St. Patrick and the history of this highly celebrated holiday. St. Patrick’s Day is ...

Outdoors North: The soothing waves of relative silence

“They said, ‘What’s up is down.’ They said, “What isn’t, is.’ They put ideas in his head that he thought were his,” – Bob Dylan I’m walking down a snow-covered two-track road with the gray-blue skies overhead catching my eye as the sunlight peeks through briefly and touches down across the forested landscape. The ice glazed over the bare branches on the trees begins to glisten and shimmer in the sunlight. The air is cool and refreshing as I take deep breaths and keep walking. I’ve been out here for a while now. I passed an ice- and snow-covered beaver pond, ...