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Migration Brewing named Oregon’s 2024 Small Business Person of the Year
Migration Brewing, a leading craft brewery in Portland, wins Oregon’s 2024 Small Business Person of the Year title. Their growth and community involvement are supported by Portland Community College’s SBDC.
Oregon Shores’ Surf and Sun Virtual Walk and Run
Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition is excited to announce Oregon Shores' second annual Surf and Sun Virtual Walk and Run fundraising event. This initiative offers friends of the Oregon coast an opportunity to participate in a challenge and solicit support from their friends and family. The event will take place from August 30 to September 8. During this time, participants will be encouraged to walk or run as many miles as possible, embracing the spirit of adventure and the satisfaction of making a difference. What sets...
As the smoke clears, ranchers in Eastern Oregon face uncertainty
In a normal year, the grass is mostly dry in the summer. The mountains look yellow with some spots of green, lots of sagebrush and some short trees bunched together. Standing in her front yard, Amanda Smull points to hills where the lightning hit and sparked a fire on July 17.
Oregon governor’s panel makes hundreds of recommendations to reform Coffee Creek prison
Oregon Department of Corrections officials have received hundreds of ideas from a governor-appointed panel for reforming the state’s only women’s prison and better protecting women against trauma, sexual abuse and misconduct. The recommendations would make administrators more accountable for Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, which houses about 900 female inmates, and seek a change in culture at the prison in Wilsonville. They also would increase oversight of allegations of sexual assault and strip searches and expand behavioral health programs, records obtained by the Capital Chronicle show. ...
A look at Kennedy cross country's 2024 schedule
Kennedy cross country will look a bit different this year. The program graduated six runners across the two teams. On the boys side, the departure of last season's district champion Johnathan Kintz will be difficult to replace, while the girls have to fill three spots from last season's team that won districts and qualified for the state meet. Sophomores Lukas Bauman and Aaden Carmack are the lone varsity returners for...
Ashland woman sues police, Providence for alleged forced urine sample
Liese Behringer, now 68, alleged in a civil complaint that staff at Providence Medford Medical Center staff forcibly inserted a catheter into her even though she agreed to provide a urine sample — just not in front of then-Ashland Police Officer Justin McCreadie who had arrested her. The officer, who is now a detective for the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, had obtained a warrant for the urine sample, but not to do it with force, Behringer’s attorney, Joy Bertrand, said in court on Tuesday. The city of Ashland and Providence have both denied wrongdoing.
Jackson County Fire District 5 addressing $1.5M budget shortfall
PHOENIX, Ore.- Jackson County Fire District 5 addressing its financial issues during its Board of Directors meeting Tuesday night, following the termination of the former fire chief. Last week, former Fire Chief Charles Hanley’s contract with the fire district was terminated after he was found guilty of misconduct. In...
Rewards climb to $2,000 in pellet gun poaching case
Rewards doubled for information leading to the individuals(s) using pellet guns to harass and kill deer in Roseburg this summer following multiple calls to report carcasses to the Turn In Poachers (TIP) line. The Oregon Hunters Association (OHA) is offering $2,000 cash, or four ODFW hunter preference points for information...
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