From time to time I have tried to provoke my fellow fans of the English language by calling for the abolition of the apostrophe, especially when it’s used to denote the possessive or genitive case of a noun. Looks like I could have saved myself the trouble.
When the sun shines and the wind blows, this spring is a good time to visit Albany’s Talking Water Gardens, as the sun and the breeze and I all did on Sunday.
Benton County residents will want to keep an eye on their sheriff’s experience with “autogas.” Sheriff Scott Jackson has announced that most of his department’s patrol vehicles will be refitted with a dual fuel system, allowing them to run on either conventional gas or propane. If this proves as efficient and economical as the sheriff […]
The longer Oregon and the country labor to carry out Obamacare, the more I wish that Betty Johnson and her compatriots had prevailed. Mrs. Johnson, who lives in Corvallis, has just been honored by Benton County with a public health service award, an honor she richly deserves for her lifelong work in helping older people. […]
Thursday was a cloudless but very windy day on the central Oregon coast, as the noise on this video proves. Hardly anybody was on the beaches, which is not surprising for a weekday in early April. Every time I walk across the sand left dry by the low tide, I’m reminded of the increasing agitation […]
I’ve known Mark and Andrea Ylen for years, starting when we all worked for the Albany Democrat-Herald, where Mark today is the photo editor. So I was delighted when Andrea and Mark, with their three children in tow, were called to the front of the council chambers at City Hall Wednesday night to be recognized […]
A night in local politics
They had to haul out extra chairs, and even then not everyone found a seat. Except for the fact that this was the meeting room of the Corvallis Public Library on Monday night, you would have thought the crowd had come to see a hot new act. Instead, what they came for was a forum […]
Tags: Benton County Commissioners, Candidates' forum, May 20 primary