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fromPortland Monthly
6 days ago

Hot Takes on Portland's Latest News

Oregon is experiencing major cultural and energy developments, from expansion of women's sports and performing arts to advancing geothermal research and infrastructure repairs.
fromwww.npr.org
5 months ago

Happy 75th birthday to Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby's big-kid neighbor

When Beverly Cleary's fictional Henry Huggins made his debut in 1950, he was a third grader whose "hair looked like a scrubbing brush and most of his grown-up front teeth were in." He was also bored. Apart from having his tonsils out and falling out of a cherry tree, "nothing much happened to Henry." But pretty soon after we meet him, by page three in fact, Henry comes upon a scrawny mutt who stares at him eating an ice cream cone and the adventures begin.
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