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<p>Someday, prospective Stearns County rural homeowners may get a scratch-and-sniff lesson on farm life.</p> <p>For now, Stearns will use a brochure to inform people thinking about building a home in a rural area about the sights, sounds and odors associated with farming.</p>

City Of Seattle Initiative No. 77 Espresso Tax Yes 13147 31.71% No 28307 68.29%

<p>The city — which has extended the period for public comment on the Waimanalo Gulch landfill issue nine times — got an earful at a public hearing at Kapolei High School last night.</p> <p>Except that no one from the city showed up to listen, a fact missed by few of the more than 100 people who showed up to have their say.</p>