Last week’s wind storm left a few Keizer neighborhoods without power for the better part of two nights and days, long enough to get one’s attention. After a few days and nights without power, you begin to adapt. Projects and chores that require light have…
As last week’s Keizertimes was being prepared to be sent to the printer, all hell broke loose at the nation’s Capitol. Protestors who gathered to oppose the certification by Congress of Joseph Biden as winner of the 2020 election, attacked the Capitol, even storming the…
As 2021 gets underway, we all reflect on the past year as the disturbed child of an otherwise normal and happy family. This delinquent child brought wrath down on us all. Even those of us who just wanted to go fishing. Winter steelhead fishing on…
Gary Oldman plays Herman Mankiewicz’s, the scribe behind Citizen Kane, in Netflix’s Mank. A long time ago, while perusing an online message board dedicated to discussing cinema, I came across a casual discussion of what differentiates a “movie” from a “film,” and that conversation has…
To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank some special community individuals who stepped up when I asked for some help. The year 2020 has been specially difficult for families and the homeless who lost jobs and found themselves just “out…
Opinion The turn to a new year is as much psychological as it is temporal. The calendar flipping to a new year has always been cause for celebration. The new year means making resolutions, plus it is the start of a new tax period. Not…
To the Editor: Representative Bill Post is a constant source of amusement. Every now and then he makes sense. Like for instance when he suggested to the head case adolescents (aka Proud Boys) that intimidating state employee—in front of their homes —was bad form. Ah,…
With a combined 16 years on the Keizer City Council, Kim Freeman and Marlene Parsons attended that last session on Monday, Dec. 21, before they turn their seats over to thei successors on January 4. Freeman was appointed to the council in June 2013 to…
With Legislative Committee Days scheduled for this week, Christmas right around the corner, and the 2021 legislative session starting in January, Gov. Kate Brown has decided to call for a special session on December 21. What does this mean and what will be addressed? The…