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Debb Reiley looks over the classes and activities in the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival brochure. The festival celebrated its 25th annual event this past weekend.

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Bird fanatics
March 29, 2023 1:30 a.m.

Bird fanatics

Sandhill Crane Festival draws full house

OTHELLO — Sandhill cranes have a special meaning for Debb Reiley. Reiley lives in Seattle now but spent 30 years in Alaska, the summer range for sandhill cranes. “The sandhill cranes would land by my house,” she said. The flocks would take flight early in the morning. “I would wake up, listen to them go overhead.” ...