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Election season is always exciting for journalists.

I finally decided to attend my 40-year high school reunion.

Evidently I’m old-school.

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I might have created a future journalist at a recent career day at Stanfield Secondary School.

Agriculture is a big player in the eastern Oregon economy. More than 37 percent of the workforce in Umatilla County is either directly or indirectly employed by the agriculture industry. And f…

I remember the first time I sat in a government meeting, put my head in my hands, and thought, “what is the point of this?”

I’m a Winter Olympics junkie, but several things connected with things happening in PyeongChang have me scratching my head.

Combing through old editions of the Hermiston Herald to put together our regular Hermiston History feature this month gave me a few chuckles.

One of the great experiences of my professional career has been Leadership Hermiston, a chamber of commerce program intended to give people a crash course on what makes this community tick.

Four out of six staff writers in the news department will have the jury message line on speed dial during the month of February.

The Hermiston Police Department and city of Hermiston just concluded the 48th annual Christmas Express program. Each year since I took over in 2004 we have tried to fine tune and make the oper…

What’s the point of making a New Year’s resolution?

At the end of a long day last month, my boss came up to my desk. After a few minutes of pleasantries, he sat down, something clearly on his mind.

I started writing this column last fall after the #NotOkay posts went viral on social media.

There are many ingredients to a great sports rivalry.

Although I stifle the fact like many bury family secrets, I was born and raised a city kid. Worse, actually — a suburbanite. I’ve spent and loved the last three years in rural Oregon, but stil…

I get so tired of the continuous calls from telemarketers and the incredibly annoying, “This is your last chance regarding renewal of your car warranty.”

It seems there are certain occupations where people think you’re always on duty.

We sang a rousing round of “Happy Birthday” Monday morning in celebration of Lucifer’s eighth birthday.

I spent a few moments the other day rummaging through boxes in my garage trying to find one of the squeeze coin purses Frank Harkenrider gave to me in the late 1970s.

While selfies may have increased in popularity over the last decade, millennials certainly weren’t the first generation to snap photos of themselves.

I’m looking forward to the Umatilla County Fair taking place in its new digs at the Eastern Oregon Trade and Event Center

As the preparation for the 2017 Umatilla County Fair and Farm-City Pro Rodeo continues to increase in pace, the board of directors of the Friends of the Fair and Rodeo Inc. wanted to take a mo…

I hate traffic.

We have become a society of commercialization.

I don’t like the dentist .

Although not even close to the fiasco a recent United Airlines passenger experienced, I was thinking back about some of my travel woes over the years.

I’ve done some odd jobs over the years — some odder than others.

I recently spent a week firmly planted on my daybed with my right hand wrapped in an icepack resting on a pile of pillows.

I think of myself as a fairly law-abiding citizen.

The end of one year and the start of another provides an opportunity for reflections and setting goals for the new year.

I just wanna say the post office ain’t got nothing on journalists.

As I watched a skiff of snow begin to form outside late Monday night, I wondered if the traction on my Nikes would be enough to safely transport me from the newsroom door to my Jeep.

Jerry Reed’s story, or part of it at least, is a familiar one in Hermiston. He wasn’t born here. But he saw opportunity here, came here for work, and it became his home.

The collective bargaining unit currently employed by the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office, have issued their endorsement of Sheriff Terry L. Rowan, in his re-election bid for Umatilla County S…

Reminiscent of the familiar line “This one time, at band camp ... ” in the 1999 film “American Pie,” my husband, John, doesn’t let me forget about this one time I added oil to my pickup.

I recently took a couple of days off and hung around Hermiston for a long weekend.