RS: Oxley Was A Solid Journalist

I just concluded a week-long, 1,600-mile road trip around southern Idaho. One of the people scheduled for a coffee visit, in downtown Blackfoot, was Chuck Oxley, a long-time Idaho newsman, for a couple of years communications director for the Idaho Democrats, and most recently managing editor of the Morning News . The coffee didn’t happen; Oxley wasn’t at the newspaper office because he was home with the flu. We made tentative plans to meet later. Won’t happen now. The first bit of news I saw after returning home was about Oxley – he died on Saturday in a one-truck accident , west of Blackfoot. The news hit home as sad and chilling at once. He was a journalist at a couple of places I also worked (the Idaho Statesman , the Idaho State Journal ) and I knew him from those experiences as a solid and committed journalist/ Randy Stapilus , Ridenbaugh Press. More here .

Question: Anyone else have a remembrance of Chuck Oxley you’d like to share?