Category Opinion & Editorial

Our plate is overflowing with gratitude

In the newspaper business, and particularly for sports journalists, you work on most holidays. “Nights, weekends, and holidays,” in fact, is what we stressed during interviews. It’s not by choice – it’s simply when sports leagues schedule games and events, so you need reporters, photographers,…

LTE: Remembering Ronald Taylor

Dear Editor, It is with sadness I read the obituary of Ronald Taylor, a well known businessman of South Lane County.  The Taylor family has been a mainstay in the area for many years.  Wayne and Mizy I had Taylor’s Towing and Wrecking Yard, and…

Short Mountain Landfill tour eye-opening experience

Sometimes, being a journalist requires going on field trips, and when I was invited to tour the Short Mountain Landfill, I let my curiosity outweigh my distaste of pungent smells … and I couldn’t resist recruiting some interns to come along for the ride.  In…

Celebrate your climate and sustainability wins

Much evidence shows the importance of celebrating small victories when undertaking big projects.  Whether building a house or teaching a history course, acknowledging milestones on the way to completion can improve project participant morale, increase productivity, and nurture a sense of community. Our collective energy…

‘Let’s gather on the Rogue’

It’s been a challenging season of sport fishing, a lack of consistency between fisheries and regions being the main driver.  Fall fishing was good in a few places, fair on some rivers and poor on most others.  My fall favorite has always been steelhead fishing…

LTE: In reaction to ‘In moratorium’ reporting

We are new subscribers to The Chronicle, and have been enjoying the newspaper. So far, we have found the reporting to be thorough, and mostly bipartisan, which is important for a local news organization. I think the Oct. 26 article, “In Moratorium,” missed the most…