usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Email Junior livestock auction brings culminating cash By CHRIS GULLICK - Staff Writer Article Launched:05/27/2007 12:36:25 AM PDT Click photo to enlarge Elizabeth Rivera of Chico FFA shows her market hog during Saturday's Junior Livestock Auction at the Silver Dollar Fair. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Email Junior livestock auction brings culminating cash By CHRIS GULLICK - Staff Writer Article Launched:05/27/2007 12:36:25...

In separate incidents dramatizing the anguish suffered by residents as a result of roaming dogs, one dog was killed and another wounded in Hattertown last Thursday and seven sheep were destroyed in Dodgingtown Sunday morning. The 25-acre pond and seven acres of dry land, considered surplus watershed property, has an appraised value of $50,000, according to the water company, which made the offer to sell the property to the Selectmen. As a part of the celebration of its 250 years, Trinity...

In and through the skills of herding, lambing, daily care, counting, shearing, dying, carding, spinning and butchering for food, the fabric of the Navajo culture itself in woven. Mornings with their mother began with the traditional Navajo greeting ya ta yeh abin, or good morning. Alta taught her children to carry on the Navajo language and to present themselves to the world as who they really are: proud Navajo women. Violet is a weaver today and learned to have strength of thought and to...

The season stretches ahead -- long days, warm nights, and there is a feeling that anything is possible, any jaunt worthwhile. June 29-30 A town of 359 residents not far from the Louisiana border, Emerson started its pea extravaganza more than 10 years ago to liven things up and to honor a vegetable grown in many a backyard garden. Wine tastings, food pairings, demonstrations and classes by chefs and sommeliers, and live and silent auctions will fill the four days. The marquee event is the...

We had the timber and the apples," he says, and both industries relied heavily on railroads. The full cars - loaded mostly with wood chips, lumber and calcium carbonate - are almost always headed south to Wenatchee, where they'll be hooked onto a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train to reach their final destination. He unlocks the office, turns on the lights and heads outside again to Engine 1758, parked a few feet from the office door. Like every other day, theirs will be the only train on...