Starla Pointer
"Stopping By:" A reporter who knows that everyone has an interesting story to tell welcomes suggestions.
Stopping By: Hybrid vehicle
Chloe is looking forward to some fun: Many other mules and horses will be joining her at the Flying M Ranch for the Oregon Mule Skinners’ 35th annual Memorial Day Trail Ride. Just ...
Sweet as honey
Dave Merz’s great-great-grandparents kept bees in Switzerland before they immigrated to the U.S. in the 1880s. Two generations later, Merz donned a protective hood and jacket and became a beekeeper ...
The buzz on bees and honey
* Bees can't see white or red. Beekeepers often uses hives that are white so they appear neutral, and non-threatening, to bees. Merz paints his hives pale yellow, aqua, green and gray to help his bees ...
Shop offers Carlton Valley Honey
Three kinds of honey are available from Dave Merz's Carlton Valley Honey shop. They are named for the flowers from which bees gathered nectar to make the honey: Poison oak, blackberry and wild forest. ...
Stopping By: Woven legacy
Katia Johansen, a textile conservationist who worked for the Danish royal family, flew from Denmark to Oregon in April to look at the tapestries created by her mother, the late Margaret Johansen. Well-known ...
Stopping by: Transplants thrive in gardening wonderland
Gardening in Oregon is a joy, according to Yamhill County Master Gardeners Susanne Beukema, Pat Fritz and Marilyn MacGregor. The three women don’t say that lightly. Their words are backed ...
Stopping by: Center stage and behind the scenes
Mac High senior finds purpose in performing arts Molly Janssen loves putting on a show, whether that means singing on stage at Gallery Theater or directing the action for the Mission Mac High ...
Stopping By: Grandma wants every bride to be her best
Perched in her rocking chair, Juanita Layton waited for customers to visit her shop, which is filled with clouds of tulle, silk and satin. “Wedding dresses! I love ‘em,” said ...
Stopping By: Rhythm of music, rhythm of words
Lafayette writer Bethany Lee’s poetry is influenced by rhythms and sound. The rhythm of music. The rhythm of the waves and the sound of the wind. The sound of feedback from her first readers ...
Stopping by: Scaling down
On a certain scale, Jim Dunk is a land baron. His McMinnville yard is large enough to hold the equivalent of miles of railroad track, a mining operation and many associated buildings. There’s ...
Stopping by: Answering the call
YAMHILL — Jim Phillips and his wife, Cathy Laughlin Phillips, were having dinner one evening in 1978 when a fire truck pulled up outside. It wasn’t the first time Yamhill firefighters ...
Stopping by: With realism and humor
Keelie Grasley worked carefully to make the face on her painting, "Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution," look exactly like that of the famed scientist. In fact, the McMinnville High School senior ...
Stopping by: One step at a time
If Ruth Mendes da Costa were to wear every medal she’s brought home from half-marathons, 10Ks and 5Ks, she wouldn’t be able to stand upright or take a step — the hardware would ...
Stopping by: Scaling down
On a certain scale, Jim Dunk is a land baron. His McMinnville yard is large enough to hold the equivalent of miles of railroad track, a mining operation and many associated buildings. There’s ...
