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Chas Hundley
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Journalist, publisher, fighting the decay of local print media with innovative hyperlocal journalism at News in the Grove and the Banks Post.
I was just thinking "how would my part of Oregon handle a flood of '96?-style event?"
And I'm not sure that we would do super great, to be honest!
December 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is wild. I got quoted $300 awhile back by a small Oregon town for records having to do with water rights from the 1990s and I negotiated it down to "I will sit in your conference room and photograph 300 pages on my cell phone camera for free."
This is a gross abuse of public records law.
December 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I wish I had enough spare time to think about fonts.
December 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Suzette are you ok?
December 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Oh boy, here I go again, buying books I have no money for.
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
And so, it is my privilege to give to you a poem that first ran in the 1925 Washington County News-Times, a paper my great-grandmother was also writing for at the time.
"Hallowe'en," By Verne Bright
October 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
He also made it to Gales Creek, writing ecstatically of Rippling Waters, where I lived. As far as I can tell, his work is largely unknown these days. His books are out of print, his life contained in a few dusty boxes in university archives.
October 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This definitely stretches the definition of Portland, but Jim Dandy Farm Market in Manning, just outside of Banks, has free admission, free wagon rides, a maze, and a mini haunted house. Photos by me, feel free to use 'em if wanted. www.pumpkinpatch.farm
October 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If you do not have a story like this, I question your rural bona fides.
October 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Down I fell, & when I landed, I was arms-deep in the ribcage of a half-rotted cattle carcass. It turns out, one of the steers from the farm we were sledding at had died and been buried there.
Because I am not fabulously wealthy, this did not result in me dressing up as a cow and fighting criminals.
October 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I haeavent yoused it yet.
October 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're lucky.
October 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM