By Stephen Floyd When The Silverton Appeal was established in 1880, the city was barely older than the paper’s founder, 25-year-old Henry Guild. The Appeal outlasted numerous competitors during its early decades and survived two world wars, the Great Depression, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, and the advent of the internet. But Silverton’s first and longest-running newspaper […]
Heralding spring, thousands of green iris blades emerged at Cooley’s Gardens; barely in time to bid their patriarch farewell. Richard C. Ernst, president, manager and hybridizer of the major bearded iris growing operation, passed away unexpectedly March 2, 2011, after a brief illness. He was 57.
You can learn a lot about somebody on Facebook – it is like a portal into the person. Rick Ernst told it like it is. He was well-known for his letters to the editor espousing views you either thought were spot on or out of left field. Make that right field, since he wasn’t a big fan of anything on the left.
