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These days news is often shared via platforms and messaging networks that are ephemeral in nature.

Think Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter, as examples. They are literally here today, gone tomorrow formats.

But there is still room – on bookshelves and elsewhere – for time-honored means of sharing and preserving news, such as journals, clipbooks, and scrapbooks.

The thick collection of news accounts from the pages of the Puget Sound Mail compiled 50 years ago by late La Conner business leader and Rotary Club officer Paul Thompson is a prime example.

The half-century old binder, sha...