Not Fit For Print

Zip-line fun, movie reviews, a great record and the G-T’s top 10 online stories are on tap today.

Corvallis PD made a decent size drug bust after a routine traffic stop.

Here’s a sneak peak at a cigarette burglary story that will be in tomorrow’s paper.
On a related note, Nader seems like a cool guy. I wish I would have had more time to talk with him about life in America. Maybe I’ll touch base with him again for a “Story Next Door.”
Cigarettes stolen in burglary
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A quick perusal of the G-T’s top 10 online stories shows plenty of crime articles, as usual, but there’s also a mix of sports, business and medical issues.
And there’s a few stories about a rather prominent landlord’s garbage pile.
I’ll try and get to more recent top 10 lists later in the week.
June 15-21
1.) Randy Jones: [...]

I’m writing this as the office is absolutely packed for the 100th anniversary party of the Gazette-Times as a daily paper.
The cake is wicked awesome, there are limited edition mementos such as a reprint of the first daily paper. Lots of former newsers. Lots of officials. Mayor Charlie. The D.A. A big to-do.
(The top 10 [...]

Sorry for the gap in blog posts. Been a long time because of vacation days, special projects, and the beast that is the daily paper. I’ll get some top 10 lists up tomorrow, folks.
Great assignment on Sunday, when I got to ride in A.C. Campbell’s restored GTO. Serious muscle in that car, folks, which made [...]

This week’s top 10 online stories were fairly typical, in some ways, with public safety represented strongly. And while the top spot was a fire story, it was also part of the weird weather that captivated our readers. The top spot had much higher page views than normal because of the mix.
Overall, the week was [...]

Well, I certainly think we’ll be covering the vintage World War II planes at the Corvallis airport, especially after a tremendous response to an error that made its way into Tuesday’s online and print editions of the Corvallis Gazette-Times.
The brief that ran said B-24s went on Doolittle’s raid, which, as many readers pointed out, was [...]

A couple of art students decided to auction off the name of the Fairbanks Hall Annex five times in a week, to poke fun at OSU’s practice of renaming structures after major donors.
The first auction was Friday, and things took a strange turn right off the bat when the winner was an anonymous proxy bidder.  [...]

Here are some letters from Shwayze musician and Cisco Adler,  about the group’s ill-fated show at Oregon State University.
The group headlined the Flat Tail Festival on Saturday night and had it’s set cut short for party-band activities such as getting the crowd to throw marijuana up on stage, and swearing like such mofos you would [...]