Legal Matters
Suit settled – Power Motorsports settles Sea-Doo death lawsuit Sublimity-based Power Motorsports is among defendants who have settled a wrongful death lawsuit over a young boy killed in a Sea-Doo collision in Sweet Home in 2020. […]
Imagination Library: Early reading language choices expand
In 2021 the Stayton Public Library Foundation (SPLF) – supported by private donations, grants and legislative funding from the State of Oregon – partnered with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Program to provide monthly, no cost, […]
Aumsville, Santiam Hospital, receive emergency preparedness gear from state
The City of Aumsville and Santiam Hospital & Clinics are in line to receive new emergency preparedness gear from the state. The grants are part of the $8.1 million State Preparedness and Incipient Response Equipment […]
Rural health care – Salinas visits Aumsville to discuss challenges ahead
U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas visited Aumsville on July 31, getting a tour and a tutorial on the challenges of health care in rural Oregon. The visit started with a brief tour of the Aumsville Medical […]
$5M grant: Funding means new ambulance facility for Santiam Hospital
Santiam Hospital & Clinics will use a state grant of nearly $5 million to construct a new ambulance facility for the hospital in Sublimity. State Sen. Fred Girod (Republican, Stayton), shepherded the $4,759,310 grant through […]
ODOT considers closure of Hwy. 22 park-and-ride lot
The Oregon Department of Transportation is considering closing the park-and-ride lot on the Cascade Highway at Highway 22 amid concerns raised by the City of Stayton. The city sent a letter to ODOT about the […]
Lower the lake? Corps discusses Detroit drawdown at public meetings
About 20 Detroit-area residents as well as a healthy cadre of about 10 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees gathered Saturday, May 31 at Detroit City Hall to discuss Detroit Lake and possible changes in […]
Deal dies – No hospital merger
Efforts by Santiam Hospital & Clinics and Samaritan Health Services to join forces have reached a dead end. The two health care entities have announced that they no longer are seeking an affiliation. Both released […]
Detroit Lake – Drawdown postponement gives region time to study options
The Santiam Canyon has moved off of DEFCON 5 amid a change of timing on the part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps, which was planning to draw down Detroit Lake to […]
Reiki – Practitioner reopens in Sublimity to pass along positive energy
The first time Emily Heuberger came across a reiki practitioner she was 22, wandering through a farmer’s market and uninterested in experiencing what was referred to as “energy healing.” “But for some reason, the word […]