By Jan Jackson Not long after his election results hit the national media, Silverton Mayor Stu Rasmussen, the nation’s first known transgender elected official, was approached by several production companies to possibly create a reality TV show based in Silverton. In early April, a crew from a large production company came to town and shot tape for a teaser/preview reel […]
By Linda Whitmore Three women are defying cautionary warnings of negative economic conditions and jumping headlong into new endeavors in Mt. Angel and Silverton. Two of the entrepreneurs bring years of business experience and one is fulfilling a dream. The Green Store Michelle Fenney is one who not only has operated businesses before, but has taught others how to succeed. […]
By Brenna Wiegand The story of Lisa Wertz and David Ehrlich isn’t one of “boy meets girl” so much as of two adults who find each other after decades of loneliness and pain. The Eureka, Calif., couple, she 38; he 52, were glad just to have found each other. Neither had been married previously. However, much more was in […]
Mt. Angel – Fourth of July Parade, 2009 Photographs by Mike & Linda Whitmore
Silverton and Mt. Angel area students participating in the Marion County Fair, July 2009. Photographs by Kristine Thomas
Dixon Bledsoe needs to get juice, size 3-5 diapers, baby food in jars and sealable sandwich and quart-size bags. No, he’s not a new father with worries about meeting the needs of an infant. Instead, he is seeking those items for Silverton Area Community Aid because he wants to make sure the shelves are full with food and other supplies to meet the needs of its clients.
The Oregon Garden begins its 10th summer music series Friday, July 3, at Teufel Amphitheater.
Mt. Angel Oktoberfest President John Gooley has received letters in support of constructing a new Oktoberfest Community Building from the Mt. Angel Fire District, St. Mary Catholic Church, Mt. Angel School District, Wilco, Mt. Angel Development Programs and the Mt. Angel Chamber of Commerce.
Wading through waist-high grass, Marci Taylor had some reservations about the land being shown to her and her husband, Steve, by real estate agent Joe Giegerich. It had a vineyard but where was the valley view?
Since Tony Doody bought Monitor Inn more than three years ago, it has been spruced up, had new equipment installed and has been painted red, white and blue inside.
Teri Mallorie Kilgus, herd health manager and co-owner of Mallorie’s Dairy of Silverton, is proud of how her father started the dairy and is determined to keep it going. Recent challenges to the business have been met, but more loom on the horizon.
Betty Jo Steele and Deborah Climer strongly believe in living in God’s healing touch. The Silverton women embrace their belief daily through their new counseling service, LIGHT Ministries, which opened in May in the Hartman Building.
The Wooden Nickel will present seven free concerts at the Willamette Valley Event Center in Mt. Angel this summer.
After years of discussion, planning and hoping, ground will soon be broken on a new Senior Center at the corner of Westfield and West Main, property purchased by the City of Silverton from the Silver Falls School District.
The volleyball nets were gone and there was no music to dance to, but when the Class of ’49 reunion committee members dropped by the old Mt. Angel Academy gym to give Sr. Joeine Darrington her invitation to the party, they shared memories and laughed about the good times they had there 60 years before.
As Children’s Educational Theatre in Salem prepares for its 35th year what better way to move into the future than for a local dance professional to join its teaching ranks. Silverton resident Marta Stovin brings years of dance, vocal and drama experience to her new role as dance instructor/choreographer for the theater group.
Wendy Pile didn’t recognize the man who looked like a “disheveled professor with long hair” who was hugging her children, Alyssa, 10; Chase, 8; and Amara, 3, at the Portland Airport. “When they knocked him down, I realized it was David,” she said. “I honestly didn’t recognize him at first because he has lost weight and his hair was so long.” “He looked like Einstein,” Alyssa added with a burst of giggles.
Craig Roessler, superintendent of Silver Falls School District, issued a statement following the June 23 arrest of Sue Alderson, a teacher at Robert Frost School. She is charged with one count each of Rape I and II, Sodomy I and II and Sex Abuse I and II.
On July 7, Luke Ferguson will travel to Australia to become part of a football team that will compete in an international tournament. KayLynne Kuenzi does likewise for volleyball about a week later.
In my family, spring and summer represent a gauntlet of celebrations. Anniversaries and birthdays crowd the calendar. Throw in Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, and it seems as though something – or someone – is celebrated nearly every week.
There are a couple of seasons upon us – the time of year seed farmers start the soil-cleansing process that paves the way for optimum grass seed yield and the time of year the legislative session, which had two bills pertaining to field burning, draws to a close.
By Kristine Thomas Is it possible to forgive the unforgivable? That question led to another and another, prompting Naseem Rakha of Silverton to seek some answers. An award-winning journalist, Rakha shares what she discovered in her first novel, The Crying Tree, which will be released July 7. The Crying Tree tells the story of Irene and Nate Stanley and their […]
By Kristine Thomas Lisa Samoilov and Stephanie Ayhan have three ideas on how to increase enrollment at Monitor Elementary School in order to keep the school open. To proceed with any one of them, they first need a commitment from Monitor parents and community members to help with the necessary work. “Everybody has to come together as a community if […]
By Kathy Cook Hunter Jack Hande, who has carved airplanes since his boyhood, looks over one of his newest projects – replicas of Japanese warplanes from that era, which will hang from the ceiling in the renovated aircraft observation post outside the Silverton Country Historical Society’s museum in Silverton. They are examples of a Japanese Zero and a Japanese G4M, […]
By Kristine Thomas As a mother, Jodi Drescher knows there is no way to recapture a moment in her children’s life – once it’s gone, it’s gone. As the principal of Silverton High School she has frequently reminded her colleagues to put their families first. It’s time, she wrote in an email to colleagues, to listen to her own advice. […]
