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CHEERS & JEERS: Feds Wanna Count Corvallis Out
March 12, 2021
CHEERS to our county going from Hellfire Damnation Risk Level to Purgatory Risk Level, or as the state put it, from Extreme Risk to High Risk. We’re talking, of course, about our county’s COVID risk level. Businesses will be less restricted, but no word yet on the state sending us a merit badge.
JEERS to the feds looking to statistically toss Corvallis into funding limbo. Let us explain: Corvallis is currently considered a Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is important because that’s how the feds decide funding for a town like ours – think everything from Medicare reimbursements to transportation, and bunches in between. Anyhoo, the minimum MSA headcount for these last 70 years has been 50,000 souls per town – the new proposed minimum would be 100,000. Btw, if we get merged with some larger town’s stats, that’d suck for our fair burg’s economic development endeavors. Soooo, here’s how to email you
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Benton County Sheriff Arrest Two Men for Sexual Corruption of Child
February 25, 2021
Two men, Rocky Keith McCallum and Steven Jay West, have been arrested by the Benton County Sheriff’s Department for online sexual corruption of a child after a sting operation.
McCallum, 50, of Monmouth, and Jay West, 70, of Gleneden Beach, were caught after making contact with undercover detectives pretending to be a 15-year-old girl. A large number of men in fact, according to detectives, responded to their online post posing as a 15-year-old.
McCallum was arrested on Wednesday, Feb. 25 after making contact with the undercover account and was charged with online sexual corruption of a child I, online sexual corruption of a child II, luring a minor, and attempting to use a child in display of sexually explicit conduct.
Benton County’s Own Nicola Tesla
February 5, 2021
Did you know that Oregon’s own version of Nicola Tesla was raised and died in Benton County? If his biggest project, an all-aluminum airship had not failed, perhaps he would have been better remembered in history.
Thomas Benton Slate was born in Tangent and raised in Alsea. During World War I, he designed aircraft technology for the Allies. According to
Offbeat Oregon, Slate called this time of his life “the highlight of my inventive career.”
After the Great War, he built what was possibly the world’s first motorhome, what he called a “Housecar.” It was essentially a large box on top of a Ford TT one-ton truck, and Slate and his family used it to travel cross-country.