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Ten Years Ago September 27, 2001

A mushroom city sprouted up in the Days of Real Sport track infield with the arrival of 550 DNR firefighters. The firefighters came to fight a fire that blackened 4,800 acres on the ridge tops and canyons of the Blue Mountain foothills. The North Coppei Fire started on the North Coppei and burned in a northeasterly direction down into and up out of Wilson Creek, Whiskey Creek, Bundy Hollow and others.

Twenty-Five Years Ago September 25, 1986

Publisher Tom Baker, writer of the column "TOM Foolery," which appears weekly in The Times, won third place for columns i...