Protect Your Immune System – Protect Your Life
COVID 19 has brought into focus the functionality of the immune system. The proponents of emphasis on boosting...
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Oregon Inmate Dies of COVID-19 Two Days Before Release
On December 9, 76-year-old Joseph Lawrence Jones, an inmate at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution, died after testing positive...
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Three Poems by Dawn Leas
May Day Three years divorced. I’m not sure the ink has dried, but I can breathe again. I...
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Three Poems by Samantha Stanich
So tired I’m so tired, I can’t keep my eyes open to see the world crumbling at the...
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Majestic & Unimpressed with Us: An Essay by Jason Arias
In late March 2020, Julie and I move to the Oregon coast to flee a city that has...
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Horizon by Stevie Beisswanger
There are stars inside you, feel yourself low to the ground, feel yourself low —crickets of old...
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Two Poems by DJ Corvette 19
What will we do What will we do when we think things are slowing down When we’re tired...
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Hard Curves: An Essay by Jessica Rich
I look for the bathroom and wander into the kitchen. There are lines of coke and razors laid...
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Jupiter and Saturn by Joanna Rosińska
(a 59-year cycle) By Joanna Rosińska Another rendezvous in Capricorn sets us on the path: distrust of the...
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Swirling in an Amorphous Ether by Linda Varsell Smith
Time, for me, has felt completely unspooled. It’s been like history doesn’t exist and I’m just like, swirling...
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Corvallis’ Most Impactful for 2020
Annually, our staff culls its collective memory of the year that’s been, and offers a shout out for...
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Oregon’s Most Impactful for 2020
No. 1 Governor Kate Brown Kate Brown made history when she became the first openly LGBT Governor in...
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What Corvallis Thinks About the Vaccine
On Sept 17, Pew Research found that 51% of American adults said “they would definitely or probably get...
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Soul Force Education: Striving for Organizational Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
“Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said ‘we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force...
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More Corvallis-Area Shop Local Ideas
The Advocate wants to remind everyone that one of the best ways to keep our community healthy is...
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Fourteen Countries, Oregon State Work to Save the Oceans
“The ocean is neither too big to fail not too big to fix,” Oregon State University’s Dr. Jane...
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Oregon’s Elderly Need Volunteers
Due to the impact of COVID-19, the Oregon Long-Term Care Ombudsman program is looking for people to become...
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Album Club Goes Virtual with Rumors of Fleetwood Mac
The pandemic is not stopping Album Club from meeting, even if it is having to meet remotely. Bob...
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