A look back at the stories that made the news in the Blue Mountain eagle in 2023.
This month-by-month retrospective covers a wide range of topics, from rodeo queens to fighting bulls, political tussles to acts of charity, the Grant County Fair to the Blue Mountain Hospital.
Published July 26, 2021 at 4:03 PM CDT Listen • 23:50 Holly Andres & Michelle Hand
Acclaimed author Cheryl Strayed (at left) and local actor Michelle Hand both joined host Sarah Fenske on Monday’s talk show.
When Michelle Hand first read “Tiny Beautiful Things,” the book spoke to her on a personal level. The book compiles highlights from “Dear Sugar,” the online advice column that acclaimed author Cheryl Strayed wrote anonymously from 2010 to 2012, offering brutally honest yet deeply kind words of wisdom as Strayed detailed her own struggles and offered words of hope.
For Hand, a St. Louis-based actor, part of the appeal is that Sugar “is never trying to tell anyone what to do with their life.”
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Make Holiday Desserts Sing with Willamette Valley Flavors
Make Holiday Desserts Sing with Willamette Valley Flavors
December 10, 2020
Editor’s note: Call destinations before you visit to make sure they’re open. Stay posted on what Oregon’s mean for you. Also, remember to bring your face covering, required for all of Oregon’s public indoor spaces and outdoors when keeping 6 feet of distance isn’t possible.
Some things about the holidays feel a little different this year. One thing that’s not different? The reliable sense of joy that comes from popping a tray of cookies in the oven and basking in the irresistible aroma of flour, sugar and butter slowly transforming into little discs of good cheer.