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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 ...
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 ...
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..
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stopping by: From the heart
Asian Heritage Association is one way Yu-Shan Chen extends the hospitality of her native Taiwan and helps educate the community about her culture
Offbeat Oregon: Jackrabbit-massacre parties were all the rage a century ago
... the whole “lightning has to strike the car for this to work” thing isn’t also real ....
Imagine how relieved you are to find yourself back on the highway in the present day, in your “replica ...
Quirk of the Week: Viewed streetside, two power pole presentations
... history of bands that performed for the past 10 years, one poster plastered atop another, atop another ...
But fleeting was the array at Ford and First streets: carrots, oddly enough, on the ground and affixed ...
Local warming shelters open
... years old.
- Second Street Community Drop-in Center, 504 E. First St., Newberg, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.. weekdays.
Offbeat Oregon: Deadly Long Creek tornado was worst in state’s history
... four months later, David and Sarah’s new Oregon home was demolished and both of them were killed ... by a tornado.
The town of Long Creek developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s on the banks of Long ...
Lafayette unveils new, twice-as-big reservoir
... had to place a moratorium on new development,” he said. “We were forced to get creative ...”
Lafayette turned to aquifer storage, recovery and recharge, shortened to the acronym ASR. With ...
Sen. Wyden calls for boldness, optimism
... system; we need someone who knows what they’re doing and I doubt Tulsi Gabbard is that person. ...
“China represents a real threat,” he said. As to any sale of TikTok, “We want a ...
Offbeat Oregon: Frederic Balch’s dreamy mythology came to define wilderness Oregon
... there, if “at the end of the trail he found a representative of some old tribe, who remembered ... legends told by his forefathers.”
Also, Frederic’s respect and reverence for the Indian ...
Mayor-elect emphasizes city’s need to rebuild trust
... every dollar is fundamentally accounted for. Could we do a better job of getting that information out? ...Yes.”
Other council goals included restructuring the city attorney position to be alongside city ...
Offbeat Oregon: Soggy, primitive Hug Point Road may have saved Oregon beaches
... Marshfield, the Oregon coast was almost a wilderness area.
As for the libertarian plutocrats, well ... most of those, living in the Portland and Salem areas, had at least once vacationed in Clatsop County ...
