Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Hank Vaughn at 35 By Finn J.D. John By the mid-1880s, the wild, unpredictable and dangerous Oregon almost-outlaw Hank Vaughan had started showing distinct signs of settling down. He had married a part-Umatilla woman named Martha Robie in 1883; Martha, a widow, had inherited a comfortable sum from her late husband, and also was entitled to claim 640 acres of reservation land. Hank, as Martha’s husband, now turned his considerable managerial talents away from livestock rustling and toward wheat-farm management. The results were surprisingly g...
Avalanche graphic By Anthony Sagliani, Meteorologist for AccuWeather.com 7 March 2014 -- AccuWeather.com reports while rain and storminess from the past few days is moving out of the Pacific Northwest on Friday, the threat for avalanches will remain straight through the weekend. Mild air will surge northward into Oregon and Washington on Saturday. A storm system will then bring rain across all but the highest elevations Saturday night before snow levels gradually lower Sunday into Monday. Combined with wind and new snowfall over the past 24-48...
Clear Lake Lodge CLEAR LAKE: Linn County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of an experienced scuba diver found in the waters of Clear Lake on Sunday. Sheriff Bruce Riley reports his deputies are investigating a drowning that occurred on March 2nd. At 12:23 p.m. the sheriff’s office received a 9-1-1 call reporting that a group of three men had been scuba diving and one did not surface. James Paul Ward, 49, of Forest Grove was diving in Clear Lake with longtime friend Christopher Todd Baggarley, 46, of Banks and his 24-year-old son...
