Stopping By: A champion for her alma mater, hometown
By STARLA POINTER Of the News-Register When Debbie Harmon Ferry leaves her office in Linfield College's Melrose Hall, she throws her purple coat over her purple dress and grabs her purple umbrella. It's ...
Offbeat Oregon: Murderers mess with wrong woman
It was after 10 p.m. on a Thursday night, and Multnomah County District Attorney George Chamberlain was dressing for bed when the telephone rang. He seized the receiver. “Who’s there?” ...
Rohse: When dreams were delivered by mail
During the early 20th century, Grant County’s largest annual event was hunting season. Ours was good deer and elk country. Every fall, the hordes descended on Eastern Oregon: cousins we didn’t ...
Savvy Senior: Simple-to-use technology for video calling
DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: Are there any senior-friendly devices that you can recommend for video calling? I live about a day’s drive from my 83-year-old father and would like to see him more often but ...
April Yard of the Month: New homeowners give credit where it's due
Kate Pabst and Johnathan Taylor feel slightly unworthy of the Yard of the Month honors they recently received from the McMinnville Garden Club. The couple just moved into the house at 510 Fleishauer ...
Play review: Laughter, dysfunction in 'Sordid Lives'
There's a lot to love and laugh about in "Sordid Lives," the black comedy that opened Friday at Gallery Theater. Director Carolyn McCloskey, who also directed the show in 2008, gives audiences ...
Stopping By: Artists take skateboard theme and roll with it
Neither Jeanne Drevas nor Jodi Kneeland rides a skateboard. But the two local artists chose skateboarding as the theme of their joint show at The Gallery at Ten Oaks in McMinnville. The display, ...
3rd on 3rd debuts this week
McMinnville’s Art & Wine Walk, a staple of the third Saturday of the month for more than a decade, receives a reboot next week. Organizers kick off a new and improved event that involves more ...
Rohse: Battles, bonding over dirty dishes
My older sister and I loved each other dearly, and had great fun together. But we had a problem that had to do with taking turns — and determining whose turn it was. When it was time to gather the ...
Carlson: Modern style of training clicks with dogs, owners
It is easy for me to get lazy about dog training. It takes time and money, and can be tedious. But my dogs enjoy it, it gets us out and about, and a bit of a refresher is a good idea. To that end, I have ...
Savvy Senior: Is your blood pressure too high?
DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: What numbers constitute high blood pressure? I use to be pre-hypertensive, but they keep changing the guidelines, so I’m not sure where I fit in now. Approaching 60 Savvy Senior Jim ...
Photos: East meets West
Saturday's annual Camellia Festival was a celebration of Asian art, music and traditions -- as well as Newberg's official city flower.
Stopping By: Strength and traditioning
Most people have seen a photo or video of the caber toss, a staple event of Scottish Highland Games. Burly men and women in kilts heft tree trunks stripped of branches, walk forward, then toss them so ...
Scottish fest will feature Highland games
Highland games, bagpipe music, kilts, Scottish food and other reminders of the British Isles will be featured in the McMinnville Scottish Festival, the Saturday and Sunday of June 9-10 on the Linfield ...
Offbeat Oregon: Getting shipwrecked and nearly killed was luckiest break of man’s life
March 19, 1896, was probably the best, luckiest, and all-around most wonderful day of William Begg’s long and happy life. But it sure didn’t look that way at the time. In fact, as he ...
