Bill Markham (Courtesy/Markham family) Longtime businessman, state legislator and World War II veteran Bill Markham will be remembered as a man of service to his family and community. He died Monday at the age of 98. Markham served Douglas County and parts of Josephine County as a Republican representative in[Read More…]
Tag: AROUND OREGON
Uncategorized AROUND OREGON: Former Roseburg city councilor embroiled in dispute over therapy chickens
A former Roseburg city councilor registered her chickens as emotional support animals after police sought to revoke her livestock permit. (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons) Former Roseburg City Councilor Ashley Hicks has taken a novel approach in her dispute with city officials as they seek to take away her pet chickens. Hicks[Read More…]
AROUND OREGON: Warm Springs fights to preserve language as elders slip away
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs elders from front to back, Viola Govenor, 82, Marcia Minthorn, 78, Willard Tewee, 72, and Lonnie James, 63, in a classroom where native language is taught on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. (Dean Guernsey/Bend Bulletin) In a brightly lit classroom on the Warm Springs Indian[Read More…]
AROUND OREGON: Judge rules Ontario prison must enforce mask mandate, consider rapid tests for employees
Snake River Correctional Institution (File/Malheur Enterprise) ONTARIO – A state judge last week ordered officials at Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario to devise a plan to enforce mask use at the prison and to deploy mass testing after finding that the state’s treatment of two inmates reflected indifference during[Read More…]
Uncategorized AROUND OREGON: Grand Ronde tribe proposes larger environmental restoration area
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde on March 24 shared new renderings of its vision for the future of its culturally significant land next to Willamette Falls, the 23-acre former paper mill property. The Grand Ronde bought the property in August 2019. Newly released documents show tribal leaders are proposing a[Read More…]
AROUND OREGON: Criticism from all sides on Bureau of Reclamation’s plan for Klamath Basin
Upper Klamath Lake, pictured in 2020. (Herald and News photo) KLAMATH FALLS – Though the Bureau of Reclamation has yet to announce an official allocation to the Klamath Project for this summer, hydrologic projections for Upper Klamath Lake are looking worse by the day — and no one is happy[Read More…]
Uncategorized AROUND OREGON: Work begins on new Detroit Community Center
This is an image of what the new Detroit Community Center will look like. Construction started this week. (Santiam Rebuild Coalition photo) DETROIT – Spirits were high in Detroit on Saturday, March 20, as the first steps were taken to erect the new Detroit Community Center. Contractors, suppliers, public officials,[Read More…]
AROUND OREGON: Website connects consumers to fresh Oregon-grown food
Canned vegetables on display at the Salem Saturday Market on opening day, March 6, 2021 (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) PORTLAND — Finding locally grown fresh food Oregon just became easier. Oregon Taste, a public service project of nonprofit James Beard Public Market, announced the launch of OregonTaste.com, a searchable online directory[Read More…]
AROUND OREGON: Asian American leaders in Oregon react to Atlanta shootings: ‘I am scared for our community’
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Oregon have been on high alert for the past several months, as hate crimes and violence against those communities have increased nationally. Their fears were further realized Tuesday when eight people — including six Asian American women — were killed in a series of[Read More…]
AROUND OREGON: Ranchers bullish after spring auctions
Cattle graze just over the hill, as seen against the winter sky in Malheur County. (Enterprise file photo) BAKER CITY – Many bids came in via a computer screen rather than from shouts at the sale ring, but Bob Harrell Jr. was still pleased to see something resembling normal in[Read More…]
