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Friday, May 1st, 2009

TREES

tyler
o.c

by Tyler Eiason
Oregon City, OR
Oregon City is quickly becoming one giant urban area. It seems like every day more trees are being chopped down and fields are being leveled for development. When I was a kid I remember fields and forests, but these days every thing seems a few shades duller.
Oregon City has been [...]

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Champions

Landon Martinez
Oregon City

by Landon Martinez
Oregon City, OR
I looked up at the scoreboard in disbelief… My knees were weak and my head was spinning. I had just been drilled by Lake Oswego’s middle line backer. With less than two minutes left in the game and being down 12-14 we had to score quickly. I got up, shook my [...]

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Laughing At Myself

Jordan Runyen
Oregon City

by Jordan Runyen
Oregon City, OR
I’m a student at Oregon City High School. I’ve grown up in this little, loveable city. But just because I’ve lived here since birth doesn’t mean that I know much about it. For instance, I couldn’t tell you anything about the Oregon Trail Museum (End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center), [...]

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Kathleen Wilkinson
Oregon City

by Kathleen Wilkinson
Oregon City, OR
You may know Oregon City as the end of the Oregon Trail, the first city incorporated in the United States west of the Mississippi, or even just a city in Oregon, but there’s a little more to it than that. Some people think it’s just a little town with a bunch [...]

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Untouched

austin smith
Oregon City

by Austin Smith
Oregon City, OR
There I was. Thirty-two minutes away from reaching the ultimate goal. It had been three hard months and it all came down to one night. One night to get the one thing we all had been dying to achieve, perfection.
It all [...]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Moving To Oregon City

julia
Oregon

by Julia
Oregon City
One sunny morning my mom came up to my sisters and me; she said two words, “We’re moving.” After that day we had to pack all of our precious stuff in boxes. That’s all we did for three months. We had to pack and pack. I was getting tired of packing, but we [...]

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