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History Mystery #120: North Fork Festival & Loggers Jamboree

Image of a group of men in a chainsaw contest.

Prepared by Michael Owlyler. It wasn’t always called the Loggers Jamboree. In 1960, the “North Fork Festival” was organized to raise funds for the North Fork Boosters Club. Back then, the organization of the Festival included activities that tied to logging, at that time a mainstay of the community. Included in the activities of the North Fork Festival was a ...

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If You’re Tired of Fighting the Squirrels, Feed ‘Em!

Image of a squirrel.

MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES — Countless backyards are battlegrounds between die-hard homeowners and squirrels fighting over bird feed. Squirrels need not be an inevitable element of bird feeding; even though keeping squirrels out of bird feeders is an age-old problem, there are ways to thwart these thieves.           One common tactic is stocking feeders with seed squirrels dislike, ...

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