Rohse: Houseplant may be your new BFF
In these days of self-confinement, if your stir-crazy symptoms are increasing, and your hunger to talk to someone is growing greater, there is a simple remedy: Make friends with your houseplants. Rohse ...
Gallery actors sing online to raise funds
The News-Register staff Gallery actors sing online to raise funds Gallery Theater singers and actors are posting videos of performances online to encourage people to donate to the community theater during ...
Savvy Senior: How to help protect elderly parents from virus
DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: Savvy Senior Jim Miller is a longtime advocate for senior issues and regular contributor to the NBC "Today Show."Send your questions to Jim at Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, ...
Stopping by: After a century, she’s learned to roll with it
But McMinnville’s Dee Nolf is still irked that current events disrupted her birthday plans Delores “Dee” Nolf planned to travel from her home in McMinnville to Southern California ...
Sheridans finally head for home
Sheridan City Manager Frank Sheridan and his wife, Rhoda, have tested negative for coronavirus, allowing them to finally return home from a month long travel saga that included an aborted ocean cruise ...
Rohse: Dayton firm helped save America
More than a century ago, a Dayton, Oregon, business won acclaim for helping save the U.S. during the war years. The company was Dayton Evaporating and Packing Co. Rohse Colored Glasses McMinnville's ...
Carlson: Life with pets in a time of change
It would not take a crystal ball to predict this week’s column is going to deal with the coronavirus, albeit from the impact it has on our lives with our companion animals. Happy Tails Nancy ...
Carlson: Helpful naming advice to freely ignore
If your dog’s name is Bella or Max and you take him or her to the dog park and call his/her name, you might very well have a half-dozen dogs charging toward you (although dog parks being places that ...
Rohse: Wagon roads paved with fraud
In its fledgling days, vast unsettled Oregon Country was sorely in need of roads and bridges but they were virtually nonexistent. Rohse Colored Glasses McMinnville's Elaine Rohse is fascinated ...
Stopping by: Growing and changing
Avid gardeners Tom and Rita Canales miss a few things they used to grow in California — citrus, for instance. But they are thrilled by what they can now grow in their garden in McMinnville, ...
Stopping by: Beaux Frères: ‘Farming is what we do’
The rich soil of a former pig farm near Newberg combined with biodynamic farming practices has created some award-wining pinot noirs at Beaux Frères Winery. “It’s the vineyard ...
Patton students on kindness mission
Kyle Hall plans to say hello to people he meets. Christian Jimenez intends to be friendlier. Ava Mueller wants to give out high-fives. Kaydince Johnson will keep an eye out for those who look sad, ...
Gallery offers ‘Proof’
Gallery Theater will present “Proof,” David Auburn’s play about family relationships and sacrifice as well as math. The March 20 opening has been postponed, however; dates for ...
