One day in the future, visitors to Keizer Rapids Park will see a stand of trees in the southwest part of the park. The visitors won’t have to wonder why they are there; there is a sign to mark the Keizer Rotary Arboretum in honor…
There are two things one got right away when they met Charles “Greg” Frank: no one laughed louder or more heartily at his own jokes than Greg himself; and, his smile was as wide as an ocean and that smile put everyone at ease. Frank, a…
After a student reported seeing a person with a bat and possible rifle on campus, a swarm of police cars sped past the office on the way to McNary High School Wednesday, Oct. 23,. The office scanner popped and crackled with sporadic updates from officers…
Elise Myers plays Agnes, the protagonist of She Kills Monsters in the McNary production debuting next week (KEIZERTIMES/Matt Rawlings). Mythical creatures and action-adventure will be on display as the McNary High School theater department will be putting on their rendition on She Kills Monsters —…
In the late 1960s, Walter and Ruth Robinson purchased an acre or so of property along the lazily-named Big River in rural Missouri. They’d raised four children in the suburbs of St. Louis.The eldest joined the Marines and never made it home from the Vietnam…
Since the beginning of the year, Keizertimes has been covering the plights of residents in two of the city’s manufactured home parks. The owner of the parks, Investment Property Group (IPG), based in Irvine, Calif., wants residents of the parks to believe our interest is…
Over the past 75 years Keizer has had two newspapers. The first, the Keizer News, was founded in 1948 and operated until 1969. Keizer went without its own community newspaper for 10 years until John Ettinger established the Keizertimes (we don’t know the origin of the…
To Mr. Mark Smith, Mark, I wish I could put into words how much your gift of a book and, even more, the hand-written letter meant to me this week. As you can see, this week’s paper is huge. It took a lot of time…
When anyone says they want to make something great again, generalizations on the subject don’t cut it. Regarding our nation, even the least savvy historian would want to know fairly precisely to which event or period of time the advocate references as a return point to…