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…
President Donald Trump does not want war with Iran. America does not want war with Iran. Even the Senate Republicans are advising against military action in response to that attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities. “All of us (should) get together and exchange ideas, respectfully,…
Officials in Malheur County in eastern Oregon had asked Sheriff Brian Wolfe to assess whether the Malheur Enterprise weekly newspaper had engaged in criminal conduct in its reporting involving the director of the county’s economic development department. County Counsel Stephanie Williams confirmed that she contacted Wolfe…
A while back, President Donald J. Trump confirmed that the U.S. will leave an arms control treaty with Russia dating from the Cold War that has kept nuclear missiles out of Europe for three decades. He also said that, “We’ll have to develop those weapons after we…
By HUNTER C. BOMAR I am grateful to have worked at the Keizertimes. In December of 2018, I graduated from George Fox University; I was leaving with my communications degree in hand hoping to make my mark. After leaving the safety of the school and…