If you're wondering if shoe leather reporting still happens, I just crammed a request for more information through somebody's mail slot.

Possibly the nicest thing anyone has said about me.

I was just thinking "how would my part of Oregon handle a flood of '96?-style event?"
And I'm not sure that we would do super great, to be honest!

This is wild. I got quoted $300 awhile back by a small Oregon town for records having to do with water rights from the 1990s and I negotiated it down to "I will sit in your conference room and photograph 300 pages on my cell phone camera for free."
This is a gross abuse of public records law.

I wish I had enough spare time to think about fonts.

Suzette are you ok?

Hundreds of FGHS students take part in walkout to protest ICE More than 300 students from the Forest Grove High School left the school campus and walked nearly five-miles round trip to the flagpole east of Safeway and back to protest Immigration and Customs Enfo...

Here's the HS story! www.newsinthegrove.com/hundreds-of-...

If you think my headlines are bad, wait until you see my working titles.

Column | 1925 in Forest Grove: Play snake, learn history We added three history clips to a snake game. You're welcome.

I built a Snake game in the latest history column from News in the Grove. www.newsinthegrove.com/column-1925-...

Nothing quite makes you feel alive like the A string snapping in your face.

Whoops: Oregon Parks and Rec just sent out a completely empty FlashAlert.

Oh boy, here I go again, buying books I have no money for.

And so, it is my privilege to give to you a poem that first ran in the 1925 Washington County News-Times, a paper my great-grandmother was also writing for at the time.
"Hallowe'en," By Verne Bright

He also made it to Gales Creek, writing ecstatically of Rippling Waters, where I lived. As far as I can tell, his work is largely unknown these days. His books are out of print, his life contained in a few dusty boxes in university archives.

One of my favorite findings from my years trawling through newspaper archives has been the poetry of Verne Bright, a Forest Grove poet, journalist, & author. A Pacific University graduate, he worked with one of my cousins at the Pacific Index, one of the oldest student newspapers in Oregon.

I don't take "no you can't see that" very well.

This definitely stretches the definition of Portland, but Jim Dandy Farm Market in Manning, just outside of Banks, has free admission, free wagon rides, a maze, and a mini haunted house. Photos by me, feel free to use 'em if wanted. www.pumpkinpatch.farm

If you do not have a story like this, I question your rural bona fides.

Down I fell, & when I landed, I was arms-deep in the ribcage of a half-rotted cattle carcass. It turns out, one of the steers from the farm we were sledding at had died and been buried there.
Because I am not fabulously wealthy, this did not result in me dressing up as a cow and fighting criminals.

You know how in the Nolan Batman films, a key part of Bruce's backstory is falling into a deep hole and being terrorized by bats? I had pretty much the same thing happen to me. I was sledding down a hill when I was about 10, and the ground gave away beneath me.

I'm sorry, I don't accept hate mail or death threats from people who don't subscribe to my newspaper.

I haeavent yoused it yet.

I have acquired a 1994 "Spelling Ace" computer. Between this and my electric typewriter, I'll be unstoppable.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're lucky.

WAITING FOR YOUR HOST TO JOIN

I have to do exercises 5x daily while recovering from a back injury and the office dog Tank is *thrilled.*

I was having anxiety about the test and my mom simply drove me there under the guise of "I need your help at WinCo" and made me take the test. I'd read the DMV book twice. I missed one question. This is not me bragging, the test is insanely easy. Just... Read the book? Write a couple notes down?

I am now up to six library cards.

I am dog sitting. Meet Hadey, if you can get her to stay still.

No press table at a government meeting? I'll make my own!