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Freelance reporter and communications consultant. Priors: city government reporter for the Centraila Chronicle, sports for the Grants Pass Daily Courier, features and spot news for the Bend Bulletin. University of Oregon '15.
Downtown Olympia will take on an al fresco feel this summer as storefronts and restaurants adjust to the parameters of doing business during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Among the six pillars of a new initiative fronted by the city of Olympia and the Olympia Downtown Alliance in response to the pandemic is a plan for retailers and dining establishments to expand out to the sidewalks.
Peaceful protesters marching through downtown Olympia will not be subject to a wide array of crowd-control munitions for the foreseeable future after the Olympia City Council took action Tuesday to limit their use to situations involving extreme risk to public safety.
Olympian and Oregonian
"We know we're taking the necessary precautions for the safety of our patrons," said Ray Peters, interim chief operating officer of Little Creek Casino Resort. "You can't walk up to the pro shop without a tee time and get on the list."
The Olympia City Council has adopted an ordinance banning the retail sale of cats and dogs within city limits following impassioned testimony Tuesday night. Supporters of the effort to combat controversial breeding operations such as puppy mills spoke out, as did people concerned that the ordinance, while well intended, will do more harm than good.
Photo by Howard Lao, for The Oregonian/OregonLive -- PORTLAND -- Addison Wedin does not miss free throws very often. Her name is recorded in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as the winner of a nationwide free throw shooting contest.
Photos by Rockne Roll, for The Oregonian/OregonLive -- Casey Filkins was a one-man armada for Lake Oswego in a 24-21 Class 6A quarterfinal victory over city rival Lakeridge on Friday night at Lake Oswego High School. Filkins, a Stanford University pledge, carried the ball 35 times for 216 yards and three touchdowns as the No.
Twin Transit Investigation
One thing was made clear during the months-long push to expand Twin Transit bus service countywide: Not doing so would almost certainly lead to the demise of Lewis Mountain Highway Transit. Whether or not someone agreed that expansion would benefit themselves, surely they could see the need to keep buses running to and from Packwood, residents heard in a number of presentations.
Twin Transit officials have consistently said for the past week that they had no knowledge Lewis Mountain Highway Transit could continue operating past June 30 of 2019 without being absorbed by an expanded Lewis Public Transit Benefit Area.
As Twin Transit officials await a ruling by the state Public Disclosure Commission on alleged misuse of public funds in conjunction with the failed ballot initiative to expand its taxing district, emails obtained by The Chronicle show one local official made his opinion known months before the election.
Twin Transit General Manager Derrick Wojcik-Damers has been instructed to work from home and avoid contact with most agency employees for the duration of an outside investigation into complaints made against him by Twin Transit staff.
Twin Transit General Manager Derrick Wojcik-Damers pleaded guilty to a felony theft charge in Chehalis in 1996 - in which he was accused of stealing from his employer - but failed to disclose the conviction when seeking employment here in 2017, according to Twin Transit Advisory Board member Chad Taylor.
SEPARATION: Decision Comes the Day After Reporting on Former Name, Felony Criminal History Not Disclosed by Manager
Centralia Chronicle
Mineral is a world away from Mumbai in every conceivable way. The 200 or so residents of the small Lewis County community wouldn’t register a blip among the more than 18 million citizens living in India’s largest city.
The more than decade-long saga of the house at 1222 St. Helens Ave. appears to be headed for either a protracted conclusion or a showdown in Lewis County Superior Court. The City of Centralia planned to serve property owner Joan Sittko with a lawsuit Wednesday morning asserting that the rotting house there has reached the level of delinquency required for the city to assert the right to tear it down.
Former Lewis County Fire District 6 Chief Tim Kinder told The Chronicle on Thursday that while he has mixed emotions about the way his tenure ended, he’s tried to move on and take the lessons learned with him as he seeks to continue his career.
It took more than 40 years and a chance encounter with a geologist from the Washington Department of Natural Resources for Mike Cordell and Wes Anderson of Rochester to prove one whale of a tale.
A Lacey business fined $197,000 by the state Department of Ecology for illegal dumping of waste containing lead and arsenic down the toilet and outside the building, causing it to be listed as an active Toxic Cleanup Site, has relocated to downtown Chehalis.
Construction of a 100,000 square foot, $20 million STIHL Northwest facility at the Port of Centralia has hit a bump in the road - Foron Road, to be exact.
An expected application by a private company seeking to place a long-term care facility for patients transitioning out of psychiatric hospitals in a south Centralia neighborhood touched off a lengthy discussion at Tuesday's Centralia City Council meeting. It likely won't be the end of debates over the issue.
One of Centralia's well known eyesores is in line to become a flashpoint for future growth in the Hub City. The remains of King Solomon's Restaurant at 1225 Mellen St. are to be razed as part of plans to construct a four-story La Quinta Inn and Suites on the property.
Joe Parypa sold just about anything he could while working as an auctioneer for most of his adult life. He commanded center stages across the Pacific Northwest, selling cars, farm equipment, heavy machinery, items at charity auctions and more. Despite the more lucrative opportunities some of those items presented, he never strayed far from his first love: livestock.
More than 150 surveys filled out by members of the Pe Ell School District community show a population more supportive of a four-day school week than not, but with a number of lingering questions still unanswered as the school board works to potentially vote on the change later this month.
A pointed letter from the Port of Chehalis to leaders of the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Museum alleging a pattern of organizational malpractice figures to further strain the relationship between the two sides as the port continues to look at offloading ownership of the rail line used by the CCR&M for its steam train excursions.
The future of the long-promised Centralia Station project is up in the air following the announcement Friday that negotiations between developer Powell Development and Fred Meyer for a 175,000 square-foot anchor store are over.
Grants Pass Daily Courier
2018 Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Best Sports Story
Former Grants Pass player now interviews athletes
Bend Bulletin
Melissa Glidewell describes life in Bend as "poverty with a view." The 35-year-old first moved to Bend in 1989 and attended Buckingham Elementary School starting in 1989. Aside from three years away at college, she has lived in Central Oregon ever since. Glidewell has worked a variety of service industry
The first email arrived on the city's email server at 4:30 p.m. A one-page notice alerting residents of a pending short-term rental application in the Skyliner Summit neighborhood had arrived in mailboxes surrounding the red and tan house at 429 NW Flagline Drive earlier on Oct. 26.
Of the numerous stories Doug Ward tells from his 25-year career as a professional Santa Claus, there's only one that's sure to make him tear up. Ward was at the Gateway Mall in Springfield when a disheveled couple stepped to his chair.
Oregon Football
Referring to Oregon's (11-1) 47-19 trouncing of in-state rival Oregon State (5-7) as the 118th playing of the Civil War seems almost unfair to Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant; none of their battles were ever this lopsided. I'm really proud of how we came out in all phases," said Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich .
A week after lamenting their inability to sustain a high level of play for four quarters against the UCLA Bruins, the #9 Oregon Ducks (6-1) took it to the Washington Huskies (5-2) for the full sixty minutes Saturday, notching a convincing 45-20 victory. The win marks Oregon's 11th consecutive victory over their rivals to the North.
Through the first eight weeks of the 2014 season, Florida State's offensive line was an area of concern for its coach Rick Trickett . After returning the majority of an offensive line that led the Seminoles to a championship season in 2013, the group was surprisingly inconsistent through October of this year.
This is a landing page encompassing all four parts of Duck Territory's feature series on Oregon senior Tyler Johnstone's path through two knee injuries.
Chances are if you were a skill player on Oregon's offense, you too would have had to respond to Darren Carrington - a key performer in the Rose Bowl with 165 yards and two touchdowns - being left in Eugene after he failed an NCAA-administered drug test.
It won't be official until around 10 a.m. Sunday morning, but Duck fans can start looking at 2015 through rose-colored glasses.
College Basketball
When told Ohio State freshman D'Angelo Russell was standing by his claim from Friday that still nobody had been able to guard him, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson laughed. Coming off an NCAA Tournament freshman record 28 point performance against Virginia Commonwealth on Thursday, Russell was held to just nine points on 3/19 shooting, a season-low shooting percentage, thanks to the defense played by Hollis-Jefferson and Arizona's Pac-12-best defense.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Billed as a clash of styles, it looked early on as though Virginia Commonwealth was in control over the bigger, stronger Ohio State Buckeyes. Up by 12 points midway through the first half and with Ohio State in the midst of a six-minute scoring drought, the Rams had the Buckeyes playing their pace and falling victim to head coach Shaka Smart's "Havoc" pressure defense.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Before practice yesterday, Ohio State freshman D'Angelo Russell said of the NCAA Tournament, "I bleed for these moments." On Thursday in the midst of a frantic game against the Virginia Commonwealth Rams, Russell literally bled, Buckeye red dripping down his face after taking an elbow from VCU sophomore Doug Brooks with less than four minutes left in the NCAA West Region second round game.
Chautauquan Daily
Amanda Mainguy | Staff Photographer Violinists of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra perform Tuesday evening in the Amphitheater.
Provided photo Members of the IBIS Ensemble celebrate the release of their "Little Red Riding Hood" recording in 2011. Tyler Chamberlain, 10, flashes a grin as he fiddles with his straw-blond hair. He's just recalled the time when, shortly after his family moved to the island of Trinidad, he ran home from school with a simple question: "Mom, how long until I turn the color of Nicholas?"
When it comes to firsthand experience as a journalist covering issues of privacy and the delicate process of deciding what's fit to print, few can match the resume of Jill Abramson. The former executive editor of The New York Times, Abramson will offer her unique perspective on those issues at 10:45 a.m.
Chautauquans will hear the drums of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra echoing at 8 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater as CSO principal timpanist Stuart Chafetz leads the the first of two symphony pops concerts. Along with timeless music by George Gershwin and George M.
One of Chautauqua's favored sons makes his return to the Amphitheater stage this weekend, and he's bringing another transcendent Chautauquan with him. At 8:15 p.m. Saturday, pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk will make his ninth appearance as a soloist with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, this time under the direction of guest conductor Daniel Boico.
Picture an orchestral conductor. Maybe an old man with white hair comes to mind, with the appearance and stoicism of the Queen's Guard outside Buckingham Palace as he signals instructions to the musicians with every thrust of the baton. Stuart Chafetz not only doesn't fit this mold, he's created a new one all his own.