“You can have any tree on the lot for five bucks,” he joked as I backed up to the growing pile of discarded Christmas trees.
Have you ever felt like life is unfair? I have. I’m sure that if you’re like me, there have been plenty of times when you have experienced situations when you thought that you were the only on…
Dear Hermiston Herald readers:
Resolutions … smesolutions. While I don’t really get into the whole thing, I decided to read about making New Year’s resolutions.
When I was about 12, my parents came to the conclusion that most parents come to at some point: My three younger brothers and I had gotten too focused on the “getting” part of Christmas instea…
Bill Belichick is the National Football League’s version of the Grinch. The head coach of the New England Patriots recently said Christmas is very inconvenient — coming in the middle of the fo…
With Halloween just around the corner, what better way to celebrate the holiday than having a fright-fest.
Election season is always exciting for journalists.
I recently returned after embarking on a round-trip encompassing more than 800 miles and 40 years.
Dear Hermiston residents of 2068,
I finally decided to attend my 40-year high school reunion.
Evidently I’m old-school.
Community Editor
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.
Downtown Hermiston is a mess right now — there’s no denying it.
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.
If you’re stressing out about preparing a Thanksgiving turkey, I may be able to offer some tips.
Greg is a lovely name, but it causes a lot of confusion for the good people of Umatilla County.
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 .
I spent 45 minutes and left a penny on the headstones of 75 veterans Monday at the Hermiston Cemetery.
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.
I recently got electronically put in time-out.
As time goes on, I’m learning to think more like a dog.
Sometimes I think I think too much.
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.
By Tim Mabry
I can name that tune in three notes. Before you get too impressed, I must qualify the statement with music from game shows.
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.
I didn’t know it at the time, but I was lucky that my first newspaper boss turned out to be Jerry Reed.
This year, the beginning of November, particularly the cultural holiday of Dia de los Muertos, as particular significance to me.