By James Day The Silverton High unified basketball teams are back from strong success at a regional tournament and are ready to show off their skills before the home fans on March 20. Silverton’s competitive orange team took gold in its division with a 3-0 record in the Special Olympics South Regional Unified Basketball Tournament on Feb. 24 at Oregon State […]
By Stephen Floyd Willamette Valley Vineyards (WVV) has sued PacifiCorp for $8.2 million after the 2020 wildfires allegedly caused irreversible damage to the quality of wine grapes throughout the region. The Turner-based business filed suit in Marion County Circuit Court July 24, claiming soot and smoke from the fires tainted a “vast majority” of its 2020 vintages. WVV said it […]
By Tanner Russ The old adage the more things change, the more they stay the same certainly holds true for Silverton’s long-distance phenomenon, Morgan Anderson. Once an ardent Ducks supporter as the daughter of a University of Oregon alum, she wound up studying and running at Oregon State. Once the leader of the pack at Silverton High School, she had […]
By James Day Donald Pettit and Rick Spinrad graduated from Oregon State University in 1978. Spinrad, OSU’s vice president for research, has had a sterling career in private industry and academia. Yet when he introduced Pettit’s appearance Feb. 22 at the university’s LaSells Stewart Center, Spinrad noted he was still at OSU while Pettit “had gone a lot farther.” Farther […]
