The North Santiam Canyon Economic Development Corporation recently hired a full-time enterprise facilitator – a professional who will conduct free, one-on-one confidential business assistance for the GROW North Santiam program.

This position is a step to boosting the Canyon-area economy and helping to create successful entrepreneurial businesses in the communities of Aumsville, Stayton, Sublimity, Lyons, Mehama, Elkhorn, Mill City, Gates, Detroit and Idanha.

By Mary Owen

It’s all about the cut!

Hair stylist and salon owner Jahn Hoover is so confident about this secret to good-looking hair, he offers his clients their first haircut free.

By Mary Owen

The Saw Tooth Mountain Boys will be twanging their music in Stayton on Sept. 27.

“This group played together for 35-plus years in Oregon, and broke up over three years ago, so this will be their first performance anywhere for three years,” said Ken Cartwright, program director of AM 1620 KENC Community Radio. “It will be great to see them back together again after such a long absence!”

By Mary Owen

Did you know that only 140 of Stayton High School’s 800 students can sit in the cafeteria at one time? So where do the others eat?

“Check out the hallways, the auditorium foyer, outside along the wall, and on the stairway to the upper science classrooms,” said Superintendent Jack Adams. “That’s where you’ll find them.”