• A search steeped in secrecy, stealth
W e leave the parking lot and head down a trail in an urban park I'm not allowed to identify.

• Readers find clues to long-lost WWII letter found in Goldendale home
I t must be true that the world loves a mystery. Because no sooner had I written a column about a local man finding a mysterious letter than several dozen readers put on their detective caps and started pursuing clues.

• A Hillsboro couple feasts with their 'orphans'
H ere comes Thanksgiving, and again this year, Elisa Joy Payne and her husband, Kelly Payne, are calling all orphans.

• Finding the mom Dad won't discuss
T he last time Nicole Knect saw her mother, she was 8 years old. That was 27 years ago.

• Wife's WWII mail still needs delivery
D usty Hoag lives in a bit of a time warp, anyway.

• 'Politics of Sand': Taking (Oregon) beaches by storm
"I like a good story," says Tom Olsen Jr.

• With that bouffant wig, actor steps into role of 'The Lady With All the Answers'
M onday morning Gretchen Rumbaugh had a wig fitting.

• Margie Boule writes that a lyricist's grandson recalls well-known ditties
I t's a funny thing about the song "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"

• U.S. 'Warriors' regroup, heal war's psychic purple hearts
W ars begin and wars end. But sometimes, in the brains of military combat veterans, the war goes on and on. Or it goes away and then comes back.

• If Measure 54 passes today, thank Grant High students
I f you've ever stopped to think about it, you may have assumed most ballot measures are conceived in smoke-filled backrooms, where politicos pushing their own agendas get together to figure out how to fool the public into voting for measures they barely understand.