Linn-Benton Backwash

Though the “big holiday” has now passed, I’ve decided to honor the remaining (i.e. crappy) part of the...

Welp. No Christmas miracles this season, I’m afraid. Unless you count Magan McDermott of Albany feeding her infant...

What do you call it when a house in Albany burns down twice in a six month-ish period?...

I’m sorry to those of you in need of a good chuckle right now, but I feel like...

The Corvallis City Board… er… council… board, whatever it is, met last week and discussed a wide range...

Did you know that Corvallis has a Christmas parade? Hell yeah, it does, and it’s on November 24....

Every once in a while, a news story from our area shatters my cold exterior and just makes...

By the time you read this, we’ll be two days past the election. Taking that into extra, double,...

Whoa ho ho, everybody! It’s a lovely day in the neighborhood, and what’s more lovely than seeing The...

In the middle of last week, the Gazette-Times published an endorsement of Knute Buehler for Governor, composed by...

Mike Nearman, who the Gazette Times recently referred to as a “solid conservative,” (and I’d refer to as...

This week it seems a bit appropriate to take a minute for a little bit of diagonal talk;...

WHO LOVES BRETT KAVANA… KAVANAH…. KAVA-SOMETHING?! RAISE YOUR HANDS!!! NOBODY? Oh, seriously, nobody? That was the scene in...

A 32-year-old Albany man by the name of John Virgil Benson was just handed down two life sentences without...

It’s that time again! Where you read the Linn-Benton Backwash column and either go “this is stupid, I...

Raise your hand if you knew we had a Community Services Consortium? Nobody? Well, don’t feel bad. You...

As we near the end of summer, the entertaining side of the news cycle around here tends to...