Monthly Archives: January 2012

Discover Why Parents Have Camped Out Overnight to Get Their Kids into Lake Oswego School District’s Scholars’ Alliance Program…And Why You Don’t Have To

I hate standing in lines but my wife and I have done it four times for our kids. Once, to get our son a coveted Wii when stores couldn’t stock them fast enough, and the other was to garner each … Continue reading

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Lake Oswego celebrates the birthday of one of its own: William Stafford

The Lake Oswego Public library joins with poetry fans around the world this month in honoring its “local boy done good,” William Stafford, who was born on January 17, 1914 in Hutchinson, Kansas, and died on August 28, 1993 in … Continue reading

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Discover 32 Reasons Why Reading Is Not a Solitary Activity in Lake Oswego, Oregon

The Lake Oswego Public Library’s Lake Oswego Reads program is in its sixth year featuring the lyrical novel, Mink River by Lake Oswego author, Brian Doyle. Set on the Oregon coast in the town of Neawanaka, the story speaks to … Continue reading

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4 Excuses to Check Out the Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Bus

Outdoor enthusiasts were drawn to Lake Oswego in the early 1900s by the promise that it was a community where you could, “Live where you play.” That love for the outdoors is still alive and well among Lake Oswegans and … Continue reading

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