Looking back on January, when the first mass vaccination clinics opened in Linn and Benton counties, can feel like peering back years instead of months. Daily COVID-19 case totals in
A Multnomah County judge has rejected a demand to temporarily halt Oregon’s post-wildfire salvage logging and reforestation efforts. That means that the timber sales and replanting can continue, but it
It was just part of his job.
But Burright, who retired in 2005, said he will always remember a call that woke him and his wife, Linda, in the early morning hours of Thursday, Feb. 8, 1996.
Almost all survivors of Covid-19 have immunity from the virus for at least six months, a new study has discovered.
It would lead the experienced lawman and Deputy Rodney David â both emergency dive team members â on a journey through the darkness to Mehama in Marion County, where blinding rain had caused the North Fork of the Santiam River to overflow its banks, trapping a man and a woman in an RV.
When Linn County Commissioner Will Tucker was 15 years old, he ran away from home and lived in San Franciscoâs Haight-Ashbury district, which in 1968 was the epicenter of the hippie movement.
âI strung beads for a few weeks and girls would sell them for 50 cents,â Tucker said. âI saw the good and bad in people.â
Tucker chose to do good things in life, a decision that has guided his decision-making ever since.
Tuesday, with only 48 hours left, the clock was ticking on Tuckerâs time in office. But phone calls from constituents in need â flooding, a neighborâs garbage pile, squatters â continued rolling into his temporary office in the county courthouse in Albany.