WATERVILLE – One more strike would trigger extra innings. Waterville-Mansfield and Wilbur-Creston-Keller had played to a stalemate through nearly seven frames of offense-laden baseball. In an 0-2 hole, Shockers sophomore Kyler Poff held the game in his bat. Branson Barnes, who had walked wit… Read morePoff’s clutch hit boosts Shockers over Wilbur-Creston-Keller

The Columbia River starts out at Columbia Lake way up in the Canadian Rocky Mountain wilderness. After flowing north for about 100 miles, the Columbia turns south and heads for the United States. It adds the snow melt from dozens upon dozens of rivers and streams which flow into its drainage… Read moreThe Columbia River

Bonita is pinpointed on the 1915 Metzger Map as a Douglas County town which is now listed on Wikipedia as a Douglas County ghost town. As all real towns do, Bonita did have a post office … briefly. Don’t go looking for Bonita: The ground where it sat is under the Columbia River just north of… Read moreThe stagecoach and the former town of Bonita

Reverend William Parker was not the first person to blaze a trail to the Northwest. This honor belongs to Reverend Jason Lee. Lee made the trip west a year earlier and established the first mission among the Salish people group of the Oregon Territory. Like Parker and Dr. Whitman, Lee was se… Read moreExploration of the Big Bend

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