Of the historic buildings that graced Pine City before the Babb Road Fire on Labor Day, Sept. 7, 2020, only one still survives — because, luckily, it had been moved
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The Oregon Heritage Commission, the State Library of Oregon, and Washington State Library teamed up on the project. It allows libraries, museums, and cultural heritage groups to digitize and share their collections for a wider audience than they’d receive individually.
“So it’s very easy and accessible by the everyday public or researcher or historian, that wants to look for information, explained Katie Henry is coordinator for the Oregon Heritage Commission. Being a service hub for the Digital Public Libraries of America, it’s a national platform. So Oregon’s great history can be accessed by people across the entire nation.”
Roberta Yvonne Reilly left us on Sunday, Dec. 26, 2020, at Lakeside Health & Rehab in Pine City, Minn.
Reilly, as she preferred to be called, was born April 1, 1938, in New York, to Joseph F. Reilly and Marie F. (Ahlin) Reilly. Around the age of five, Reilly and her mother returned to Minnesota, where she attended school in Eveleth, graduating from Eveleth-Gilbert High School in 1956. After graduation, she attended St. Scholastica, and taught elementary school for a short time. She then attended St. Cloud State University and got a degree in social work.
She moved to Pine City in 1966, where she worked for Pine County Social Services, until her retirement in 2000. She called Pine City âhomeâ for the remainder of her life, staying involved with the Pine City Historical Society and happily supporting the Pine City Public Library.