Letter to Readers: ’24 Hours: A look back at last year’s cycle of round-the-clock stories

This was a series that made the clock come alive. The News-Register started ‘24 Hours on Jan. 15, 2024, and concluded the series on Dec. 18, 2024: We told 24 separate stories about life in Yamhill ...

##A postcard image from the 1930s shows what Hug Point Road looked like when it was still the primary access to the outside world for the hamlet of Arch Cape.

Offbeat Oregon: Soggy, primitive Hug Point Road may have saved Oregon beaches

Sometime around 1908, a resident of south Clatsop County — probably from the hamlet of Arch Cape — got sick and tired of dealing with Hug Point, and decided to do something about it. It was ...

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Randy Stapilus: What turned the 5th blue? Anatomy of a House flip

Although Oregon mostly held to its usual political patterns this election, that doesn’t mean nothing changed. The pre-eminent example of change came in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, ...

Whatchamacolumn: Scammers come at us every day in every way

Here’s a disquieting New Year’s thought: Every day, in every way, criminals are preying on vulnerable people via phone, mail, texts, email; all manner of print, digital, video and audio misrepresentations; ...

Kirby Neumann-Rea/News-Register##Tree wells in front of Tributary Hotel used to hold shells of hazelnuts, now replaced by conventional plantings.

Quirk of the Week: Looking back at the Quirk that got away

This week we take up where Calendar of Quirk left off at the end of 2024. We rebrand it Quirk of the Week (clever, that!) because, generally, we’ll look at just one Quirk at a time, or a few that ...

Investigating the Bible: New insight, new behavior

The late Stephen Covey, in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” described his experience on a New York subway when a man and his young children boarded. The children began to run around, being loud and rude to all the passengers.

 

Barrett Rainey: It takes shared commitment to foster renewal in America

What will we be like — what will this nation be like — on the other side?

Whatchamacolumn: Family displays Oregon drug treatment failures

We can only wonder how John Kyle Donnahoo was available for criminal duty two weeks ago in Newberg, with charges now including robbery, kidnapping, coercion, theft, unlawful weapon and delivery of a controlled ...

Letter to Readers: Jimmy Carter, a man of peace, will be long remembered

I wrote the following letter to readers in February 2023, when former President Jimmy Carter entered hospice care and was expected to die soon. He lived almost two more years, outliving his wife, Rosalynn, ...

Investigating the Bible: What about resolutions?

Many of us make resolutions this time of the year. Johnny Hart, the artist of the B.C. comic strip, drew a cartoon with two ants talking: First Ant–”This year I resolve to quit gambling.” Second Ant–”You’ll never keep it.” First Ant–”You wanna bet?” Harmful addictions and behaviors are hard to drop. The Bible is the textbook for Christian resolutions.

 

Whatchamacolumn: Looking backward is necessary for looking forward

Another year gone, another to come. It’s been the same for 2,070 years of the Julian Calendar, 45 B.C. to 1582, and Gregorian Calendar ever since. And while the Gregorian is off by about 43 minutes ...

Nir Kshetrig: Ghost guns a growing threat both in the U.S. and abroad

Police investigating the Dec. 4 shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson say the suspect used a 3D-printed gun. Several high-profile crimes in recent years have involved this kind of homemade weapon.

 

Christine Bader: Personalized holiday cards kindle cherished connections

Growing up in the 1970s and ’80s, my family would visit our local bookstore every January and pick up boxes of deeply discounted holiday cards. In December, we’d dig them out of the back of the closet, write notes inside them to friends and family, address the envelopes, lick the stamps, and deposit them in our corner mailbox.

Kirby Neumann-Rea/News-Register##Santa and his sleigh loom above Highway 99W on the roof of Kraemer’s Garden.

Calendar of Quirk: St. Nick lore, ‘shot skis’ and steampunk taps conclude the year of Quirk

How else could Calendar of Quirk complete its year except with some Santa Claus and some steampunk? Here’s the final week’s set, with a few last Yuletide trimmings leading the way: Dec. 25 ...

Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Mac High students Alex Bates, left, Rylan Carton, Rylie McManus and Rhyder Darnell celebrate the illumination of the McMinnville Christmas tree on Nov. 29.

Calendar of Quirk: A track record of noisy, fleeting, inspiring and humorous moments

This week’s Quirk list is less about places or objects than a celebration of moments: some recurring, one annual, others incidental or fleeting. Dec. 18 The singing of jingles and chanting of “tag ...

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