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News-Register file photo##Carlton Corners owner Mike Larson shares a laugh with customers in this 2024 photo. “The people who come in ... they’re like friends,” he said. Larson died Sunday at age 70.

 
Owner of popular Carlton Corners restaurant dies

... the best part about the restaurant business was working with customers. “The people who come in ... they’re like friends,” he said. Larson was well-known in the Carlton and Yamhill communities ...
Image: OHS##The front page of the only surviving copy of The Flumgudgeon Gazette and Bumble Bee Budget, in the Curry collection at Oregon Historical Society.

 
Offbeat Oregon: Oregon Territory journalism began with a flamboyant Flumgudgeon

... narrowly. In truth, there was an earlier publication that met every definition of a newspaper but one ... specifically, it was “printed” by hand, every copy, with pen and ink — longhand. ...
Rusty Rae/News-Register##Quarry Park’s hilly topography lends itself to plans for bike trails or a pump track, which would provide riders a circuitous route with little need for pedaling. Trees lining the undeveloped pasture of Quarry Park were originally planted in the early 1970s as a Kiwanis Club and city parks project, according to a park advocacy group. Rusty Rae/News-Register

 
Bumps ahead for Quarry Park?

... these are pretty typical processes, the city will engage with the neighborhood about the development ... and there’s time for them to work together on how the park might ultimately be developed,” ...
Image: University of South Florida##A woodcut portrait of Sylvester Pennoyer as he appeared in the late 1880s.

 
Offbeat Oregon: 1890s governor to U.S. president: Mind your own damn business

... water. Luckily, the city had other financial resources, and it called upon them and got the project built ... just in time for its greatest opponent to preside over the dedication as Mayor of Portland. Yes, Pennoyer ...
Rachel Thompson/News-Register##A window in the Great Wall of China provided the framework for one of Struxness’s images of the landscape.

 
Stopping By: Wonders of the world

Career in medicine sustains, informs local photographer’s global image-making

Image: Gary Halvorson/ Oregon State Archives##Ruined buildings in the old ghost town of Westfall as they appeared in 2011. The roofless house in the foreground is what remains of Jasper Westfall’s home.

 
Offbeat Oregon: Former town marshal protested his firing by murdering the new marshal

... was a dangerous man to say no to. Basically, he was the “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” of Westfall ... right down to the “.32 gun in his pocket for fun,” about which more in a red-hot minute. And ...
Image: Gary Halvorson/ Oregon State Archives##Ruined buildings in the old ghost town of Westfall as they appeared in 2011. The roofless house in the foreground is what remains of Jasper Westfall’s home.

 
Offbeat Oregon: Former town marshal protested his firing by murdering the new marshal

... was a dangerous man to say no to. Basically, he was the “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” of Westfall ... right down to the “.32 gun in his pocket for fun,” about which more in a red-hot minute. And ...
Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Dayton senior Clyde Rosenberg (51) powers  by Scio’s Brycen Zosel and Haydin Tibbs for a rebound. Rosenberg finished with 33-points.

 
Pirates fell Loggers, advance to league championship

... junior guard Tanner Gentry fired off a three-pointer. The ball spun several times before rimming out.. The next play, Dayton nabbed a defensive rebound and pushed up the court. Holloway sank a three-pointer ...

City moves forward on stormwater utility plan

... it’s going to take more time and we’re going to have more time committed to working with people ... in going through rate class appeals,” he said. “It is complex and it is going to take some ...

99W reopens after crash investigation at intersection of 18 near Lafayette and Dayton

... of Transportation. Investigating the crash may take several hours, ODOT officials said about 10 a.m.. A detour is in place. Drivers may want to look for an alternate route if they are heading toward Newberg ...
Submitted photo##About 200 women gathered on Feb. 6 at The Grand to hear state Rep. Lucetta Elmer share a piece of her life story. The Story Night program aims to spotlight women’s voices.

 
‘Story Night’ sees largest turnout with talk by Rep. Lucetta Elmer

... or their attitudes or their lifestyles. When we take time to hear their raw, real, vulnerable stories ... it changes everything.” Five years ago, Elmer shared her adoption story at one of the first ...
Image: Cascade Volunteers##A wagon crosses the Old Santiam Wagon Road near Sisters, sometime in the late 1800s.

 
Offbeat Oregon: Epic wagon-road swindle made headlines nationwide

... east of the Cascades was abandoned as soon as the land grants were made. And about those land grants ... some weren’t actually the government’s to give. Particularly in the Prineville area, much ...
Rachel Thompson/News-Register##Construction workers are installing facade finishings as the renovation of Merchant Block in downtown Dayton nears completion. The 12-unit hotel and four ground floor businesses hope to open by Memorial Day, according to city staff.

 
Dayton's growth goals coming to fruition

Merchant Block renovations, urban renewal district are energizing community, says economic development director

County eyes Annex Building for detox facility

... downtown. “I think there is a big difference between someone who deliberately enters into a recovery path ... and somebody who is going to a church or a navigation center, low barrier in other words. ‘You’re ...
Rusty Rae/News-Register##
Dunaway sixth-grader Brayden Bounyavong get a little air as he flies over a ramp he and others made Friday morning on a hill in McMinnville s Lower City Park.

 
Winter storm disrupts school, sports schedules

... Mission at 14th and Kirby streets is open from noon to 8 p.m. whenever temperatures dip below 40 degrees..
Image: Oregon Historical Society##A sketch of Fort Clatsop as it would have appeared in 1805.

 
Offbeat Oregon: Lewis and Clark blazed trail with heavy-metal laxatives

... root of a Mexican variety of morning glory, is a natural laxative of considerable power. And calomel ... ah, calomel. Calomel was the wonder drug of the age. Its chemical name is mercury chloride. In large ...

County board members spar as King challenges current limit on commissioners’ expense accounts

... “If the argument is going to be ‘everybody else perhaps can afford this but I can’t..’ I make the least of every commissioner up here and from the moment I got here I said I’m ...
Racheal Winter/News-Register##Concrete imprints vary greatly in form and content; someone might have gotten in a hurry on the old Spruce Street.

 
Quirk of the Week: There is Balm in Gilead, and there was such a street in Mac

... espied a stamp on what is now 10th Street reading “SPRUCEST.” So the letters in Spruce St.. and Balm. St. got scrunched, but over on Cedar St. the eight characters and a space are stretched over ...
Rusty Rae/News-Register##Grant Leblanc dives into breakfast at the First Baptist Church Monday morning. The church serves breakfast from 9 to 10 a.m. With the opening of the nearby navigation center, there has been a spike in the number of people arriving for the morning meal.

 
Shelter shut, First Baptist Church stays busy providing meals, other services

... mats formerly used for sheltering. “If something comes up and we need to open up to help out ... we don’t have an exact plan, but we’re hoping to be part of a community conversation.”

County considers wastewater crackdown

... (Oregon Administrative Rules) outside of failure to obtain a permit prior to beginning construction ... of an on-site sewage disposal system,” Richardson said. “It does not allow for enforcement ...
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