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Outdoors: E-bikes be wise, beware
Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
November 5, 2026
E-bikes have taken off in popularity and design. There are models that can reach 50 mph and some have battery life of well over 25 miles. My legs have...
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Outdoors: Lucky hunting charms and handloading
Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
October 29, 2026
Though some might scoff, humans can and do build relationships with inanimate objects. A favorite baseball glove, bat, hat, jacket or sweatshirt. Ther...
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Outdoors: Buck of a lifetime
Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
October 22, 2026
When my good buddy, George Duncan, informed me he planned to start hunting again I was thrilled. Five years earlier he found himself surrounded by man...
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Fall decisions: To hunt or to fish?
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
October 14, 2026
Wow, it’s fall again and the weather is noticeably cooling, the streams are up and lake temperatures are down. I should have been born twins to take a...
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Outdoors: Pre-rut strategies
Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
October 8, 2026
To bag a giant buck requires more than luck nowadays. True, you may be lucky and stumble onto a wall hanger, but the most successful hunters first loc...
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Outdoors: The dreaded poison ivy
Local Sports, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
September 30, 2026
I try to visit my daughter, Julie, several times a year even though it involves an 8-hour drive to her home in Rhode Island. Invariably, there’s a "Ho...
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Outdoors: Archery and a greater responsibility
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
September 23, 2026
This subject has been slowly gaining more and more of my attention and has now reached the point I feel it needs addressed. Speaking with a wide varie...
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Outdoors: Archery — under pressure
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
September 17, 2026
It’s the second week of archery season, daylight's fading, you can’t help thinking of dinner. You turn and look behind you one last time. To your abso...
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Persistent archery hunter takes massive Pa. elk
Local Sports, Outdoors, Sports
By WADE ROBERTSON 
September 9, 2026
Near Benezette, September daylight slowly dissolves the darkness, the world evolving from impenetrable black, to dark grey, indistinct forms gradually...
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