If you were to stand in the intersection of College and First streets in downtown Newberg and look due east, you would have a tough time making out Parrett Mountain. Looking north toward the Chehalem Mountains would yield the same effect.
It’s not a hazy shade of winter out there, but rather the sooty and potentially unhealthy grime of summer.
What’s to blame? Predominantly the dozens of wildfires raging in central Oregon, exacerbated by catastrophic fires in two of Canada’s western provinces — British Columbia and Alberta…