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2024 Ford Ranger SuperCrew 4X4 Raptor is built for serious fun
Most pickup manufacturers offer off-road packages for their trucks that include greater ground clearances, beefier suspensions, bigger wheels and tires, and skid plates to protect the undersides from large rocks. But there are only a handful of high-performance off-road trucks…
OPINION: Elections officials want people to register to vote
Join local election officials in Clackamas, Marion, Multnomah, Washington and Yamhill counties as we celebrate National Voter Registration Day. Beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 17, we’re encouraging Oregonians to take a few moments to get Vote Ready for the 2024 November general election. First celebrated in 2012, National Voter Registration Day has grown into a nationwide, nonpartisan holiday in which election officials, organizations and volunteers join forces to ensure that our family, friends and neighbors are prepared to make their voices heard by making a plan...
C.S. Lewis Academy football keeps building in program's second year
C.S. Lewis Academy football didn’t record a victory until its fourth matchup of the year in 2023. This season, the Watchmen needed just one game. The Watchmen steamrolled past McKenzie in their season opener on Friday, Sept. 6, winning 51-26 at Stoffer Family Stadium — their home venue — on the George Fox University campus. Besides registering the program’s first-ever home victory, the bout avenged last season’s 34-31 heartbreaking loss...
Forest Grove welcomes fall with annual Corn Roast, Chalk Art Festival
Two of Forest Grove’s most beloved traditions are back to bid farewell to summer and welcome the fall harvest. The 60th Annual Corn Roast and the 34th Annual Valley Art Chalk Art Festival will take place Saturday, Sept. 21, for a day filled with community spirit, creativity and, of course, corn in the city's downtown. Hosted by the Forest Grove and Cornelius Chamber of Commerce, the Corn Roast originated in...
Sherwood Mayor Tim Rosener seeks second term as mayor
Three current members of the Sherwood City Council and the city’s mayor are seeking reelection this November. Those running for seats in the Nov. 5 election include Mayor Tim Rosener and Councilors Renee Brouse, Kim Young and Dan Standke. This will be the second uncontested mayor/council race in a row. Rosener swept to victory without opposition in November 2022, bringing with him four members of the Sherwood City Council, all...
OPINION: Democracy Day — Oregon has often led the way
Oregon has a good track record — one of the strongest among the 50 states — on democracy. The state makes it relatively easy for Oregonians to participate in elections compared with many other states. But threats to democracy lurk elsewhere — outside the state — and that means Oregon has a special role to play in setting an example. The 2007 United Nations General Assembly resolution setting up the...
WRITERS ON THE RANGE: 40 years of living with wolves
Biologist Diane K. Boyd has had a front-row seat to 40 years of wolf recovery in the West, but her new memoir reveals that entanglements with humans in Montana were often tougher than dealing with the four-legged predators.
WRITERS ON THE RANGE: 40 years of living with wolves
Biologist Diane K. Boyd has had a front-row seat to 40 years of wolf recovery in the West, but her new memoir reveals that entanglements with humans in Montana were often tougher than dealing with the four-legged predators. There’s a proud literary canon of women telling their stories of studying wildlife in remote places — Mardy Murie in Alaska, Jane Goodall in Tanzania, Dian Fossey in Rwanda. Now, Boyd’s memoir, "A Woman Among Wolves — My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery," runs in...
Oregon election officials say data entry error added 306 noncitizens to voter rolls, two voted
The Oregon agency that issues driver’s licenses erroneously registered more than 300 noncitizens to vote, though state officials say only two people actually cast ballots. State Elections Director Molly Woon told the Capital Chronicle that she received a call late Thursday afternoon from the administrator of the Driver and Motor Vehicle Services division of the Oregon Department of Transportation, telling her that DMV staff caught a data entry error that led to the division wrongly classifying some noncitizens as citizens. State election officials spent Friday,...
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