Gary Randall

By Greg Johnson, For The Mountain Times Hello, dear readers, and welcome to another edition of Fore, your source for all things golf. This is the place to come if you’re dying to catch up on local gossip within the mountain golf community. You may notice that your regular voice has taken a little sabbatical, and I have been bestowed the honor of filling in. I will try my best to live up to the standards Bradford has set, and I understand that those are some big shoes to fill … or should I...

By Gary Randall, For The Mountain Times In the late 1970s and early 1980s, weekends on the mountain had a rhythm of their own. As the work week ended, parking lots filled outside taverns and night spots. Music drifted through the cool evening mountain air. Inside, dance floors stayed crowded long after midnight. Bo Cody was the mountain’s local band. The group played all over the Mount Hood area, but many people remember them most from nights at the Inn Between. The old tavern became one of...

By Gary Randall, For The Mountain Times Growth is often blamed for what communities feel they are losing. New buildings go up, old ones come down, traffic increases, and familiar places begin to look different. It’s easy to point to growth itself as the problem. But growth isn’t the real enemy. Forgetting is. Towns have always changed. That isn’t new. What is new is how often change happens without any understanding of what came before it. When history is overlooked — or never learned —...