View Point - Editorial

Bringing order to city’s ‘cop chaos’
There’s enough blame to go around.
Given the softly-spoken regrets and hushed embarrassment, we trust that at least a few valuable lessons were learned, too.
Hillsboro’s recent “Cop Chaos” drama can be labeled with several telling subtitles: “How not to discipline an employee” . . . “Tell the truth — even if it hurts” . . . “Best of intentions or personal vendetta?”
Hillsboro’s embattled chief of police Ray Weber is back on the beat as of Tuesday night. As the top gun in the two-man department, he is expected to begin training a new patrol officer soon. By all outward appearances, things are back to normal. We suspect, though, the recent events will quietly reshape the police department and the city commission. We hope that both can say the changes are for the better. (more…)

Celebrities, veterans working at the Vets Club are saying they are now.
Television cameras will do that, create celebrity status in the time it takes to aim the remote at your TV.
“Hey, did you catch us on TV last night?” you might ask the wife or the kids or the in-laws.
You didn’t?
“Well, that’s too bad, it’s all everyone is talking about. Stay tuned, they might have us on the national news next week.”
Friends of Hillsboro’s Vets Club weren’t looking for notoriety when they took over the everyday duties of the club on Caledonia Avenue West last week. They certainly weren’t looking for the TV cameraman and the station’s feature reporter who appeared on the scene Wednesday. (more…)

Northwood, in the aftermath of the destructive tornado that tore through the town north by northwest of Hillsboro on a Sunday night two weeks ago, is getting back on its feet.
Thanks in no small part to its neighbors
The rush to help Northwood residents has been nothing short of phenomenal.
Which is good.
It shouldn’t be surprising, however. Like towns all around Northwood, Hillsboro sent its firemen, city crews and ambulances to help where needed. Traill County also sent men and trucks to the small town torn apart in the dark of night by the tornado.
We expected as much. (more…)