Our Town reporters Don Murtha and Brenna Wiegand interviewed several people about their memories of Sept. 11, 2001 when commercial jets commandered by terrorists took down the twin towers in New York City, smashed into the Pentagon, and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
By Kristine Thomas Mt. Angel Mayor Tom Bauman cast the deciding vote Oct. 6 renewing City Administrator Jim Hunt’s contract. The contract would have expired Nov. 5. The council approved a three-year contract with two months severance pay if Hunt is fired without cause. The vote was three to three with council members Joan Cuff, Shari Riedman and Bill Schaecher […]
By Dixon Bledsoe
As both a mother of four and an educator, Audrey Nieswandt of Silverton knows traditions are important to families.
Even when the thought of one more Chicken Dance at Mt. Angel’s Oktoberfest can step on her last nerve, she knows that with the last name of Nieswandt, and with her children Lauzons, the festival is in the family’s blood.
