Spring has sprung, so the birds are back
A variety of different winged visitors can be found at the Crooked River Wetlands Complex
Spring is here (yay!) and along with a change in greenery comes the arrival of spring bird migrants. This movement has already started with a trickle of early migrants (turkey vultures, swallows, Say s phoebes, red-winged blackbirds), will peak around mid-May (most of the songbirds) and tail off (no pun intended) with late migrants like the common nighthawk in late May. Some early migrants have probably arrived by the time you read this, including the cinnamon teal, which usually shows up around March 24 and the osprey on March 25.
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City and county help a small town in need March 09 2021
Crook County Judge Seth Crawford, City of Prineville Public Works team up to provide Aurora leaders a generator during a power outage caused by an ice storm
Aurora, a small Marion County community of about 1,000 people about 20 miles south of Portland, was facing a serious problem.
An ice storm that blasted much of the Willamette Valley on Friday, Feb. 12 had caused power outages throughout much of the area, shutting down vital infrastructure in the small town. By Saturday, we were watching our consumption of water in our tower, Aurora Mayor Brian Asher recalls. We ended up figuring out that we only had about 20-something hours of water left for the city.
Early Prineville businessman and civic leader March 06 2021
William B. Morse, who came to the community in 1909, also served as mayor, chamber president, judge and legislator
William Britton Morse was born March 23, 1886, in Burlington, Kansas. He graduated from Kansas State Normal School and taught a year in Kansas before moving to Portland in 1906. He attended business college in Portland.
He came to Prineville in 1909 and worked as a bookkeeper for the Collins-Elkins Mercantile store. He also farmed along McKay Creek from 1913 to 1926. He purchased the Prineville Warehouse company in 1926. He began to expand his business presence by establishing the Morse Lumber company and the Redmond Potato Company.
Local officials ask governor to reopen businesses January 19 2021
Letter signed by city mayor and county judge requests local businesses get same leeway as school districts
Crook County and City of Prineville leaders have officially requested that Gov. Kate Brown relax restrictions that have closed numerous local businesses.
In a letter signed by Prineville Mayor Jason Beebe and Crook County Judge Seth Crawford, officials are asking Brown to consider allowing our businesses to reopen using the same logic and adaptive thinking you deployed that has allowed our school districts to operate.
Local leaders are requesting that the state allow small businesses in Crook County to reopen using the same OSHA COVID guidelines in place prior to the most recent lockdown, and to trust those business owners and employees to manage the COVID safety measures with the same tenacity and hard work that earned them the success they achieved pre-pandemic.