Thursday, Jan. 16, 1964 In the cutthroat competition of today, whenever the news gets around that a new and radically different enterprise is about to be launched, excited businessmen cast suspicious and avaricious eyes on the upstart newcomer who dares to horn in on their…
By Christy Solo We’ll be horsin’ around in this week’s All Things! Oregon may be known for our llama population, but we have no shortage of horses either! Did you know that Oregon is home to about 4,000 wild horses? It’s a case of “had…
By Christy Solo – ONPA 1st Place Award Winner for Best Local Column This week’s crawly has a fun (and maybe familiar) name. Meet the salt-and-pepper looper moth (Syngrapha rectangular). Of course we’re all familiar with salt and pepper, but did “looper” ring a bell?…
Commentary by Christy Solo When I woke up on Christmas Eve I was looking forward to speed-running my weekly “Get mailing labels on papers, get papers to post office, then do weekly banking, shopping, etc.” gauntlet so I could get back to my cozy living…
Commentary by Wayne Lee Hello 2026 and goodbye to 2025 and it couldn’t have come soon enough. It ended with a December I would rather not remember. It began with seven flat tires on Da Beast in the first three weeks of the month. At…