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Stopping by: From the heart
Asian Heritage Association is one way Yu-Shan Chen extends the hospitality of her native Taiwan and helps educate the community about her culture
Offbeat Oregon: Jackrabbit-massacre parties were all the rage a century ago
... the whole “lightning has to strike the car for this to work” thing isn’t also real ....
Imagine how relieved you are to find yourself back on the highway in the present day, in your “replica ...
Quirk of the Week: Viewed streetside, two power pole presentations
... history of bands that performed for the past 10 years, one poster plastered atop another, atop another ...
But fleeting was the array at Ford and First streets: carrots, oddly enough, on the ground and affixed ...
Local warming shelters open
... years old.
- Second Street Community Drop-in Center, 504 E. First St., Newberg, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.. weekdays.
Offbeat Oregon: Deadly Long Creek tornado was worst in state’s history
... four months later, David and Sarah’s new Oregon home was demolished and both of them were killed ... by a tornado.
The town of Long Creek developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s on the banks of Long ...
Lafayette unveils new, twice-as-big reservoir
... had to place a moratorium on new development,” he said. “We were forced to get creative ...”
Lafayette turned to aquifer storage, recovery and recharge, shortened to the acronym ASR. With ...
Sen. Wyden calls for boldness, optimism
... system; we need someone who knows what they’re doing and I doubt Tulsi Gabbard is that person. ...
“China represents a real threat,” he said. As to any sale of TikTok, “We want a ...
Offbeat Oregon: Frederic Balch’s dreamy mythology came to define wilderness Oregon
... there, if “at the end of the trail he found a representative of some old tribe, who remembered ... legends told by his forefathers.”
Also, Frederic’s respect and reverence for the Indian ...
Mayor-elect emphasizes city’s need to rebuild trust
... every dollar is fundamentally accounted for. Could we do a better job of getting that information out? ...Yes.”
Other council goals included restructuring the city attorney position to be alongside city ...
Offbeat Oregon: Soggy, primitive Hug Point Road may have saved Oregon beaches
... Marshfield, the Oregon coast was almost a wilderness area.
As for the libertarian plutocrats, well ... most of those, living in the Portland and Salem areas, had at least once vacationed in Clatsop County ...
Ultimate RB property: How best to measure return on investment?
... said.
“Nobody’s put their cards on the table yet,” she said. “There’s been fishing. ...
“It’s got to be a good business for both entities for it to be successful.”
The ...
Quirk of the Week: Looking back at the Quirk that got away
... “‘Twere The Weeks Before Christmas” scratch cards issued by McMinnville Downtown Association ... replaced by the more grammatically-correct “Merry McMinnville” campaign.
And we’ll ...
Offbeat Oregon: World’s shortest river is still long on drama – and hilarity
... keep their “World’s Shortest River” signs and information, and everybody was happy....
Well, almost everybody. Just as Randolph McCoy wouldn’t have been happy settling for half of ...
Letters to the Editor: Dec. 27, 2024
... unqualified.” Patel’s former supervisor, Charles Kupperman, said, “He’s untrustworthy. ... It’s an absolute disgrace to American citizens to even consider an individual of this nature.”
The ...
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.
Phyllis Hannah Bacon 1932 - 2024
... belief daily and was a living example of one of her favorite quotes by Kelly Rae Roberts, "I believe...we are all connected and KINDNESS is the voice that softly says, "I SEE you. I HONOR you and YOU ARE ...
Offbeat Oregon: The country’s deadliest natural flash flood happened in Heppner
... north-central Oregon was a very new community. Nobody who lived there had any idea how bad it could get ... until that sultry Sunday afternoon of June 14, 1903.
On that day, the residents of Heppner were sweltering. ...
