Make the McKenzie Connection!
Make the McKenzie Connection!
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Whale killers By Finn J.D. John In August 1949, some residents in the small town of St. Helens started noticing a very unpleasant smell coming from a neighbor’s orchard. Upon investigation, police easily found the source: a large, oddly-shaped, obviously home-built galvanized steel tank, about 13 feet long and six feet wide, with great marks of rust and corrosion all over it. Inside it, they found a dead whale. The tank had originally been full of embalming fluid, which had preserved the whale from decomposition for nearly two decades. But t...
LCSO map Updating Lane County’s computer aided dispatch system had the unexpected side effect of blocking easy access to reports on calls for police services. November 19th of 2013 marked the last time the public could find information about when and where the Lane County Sheriff’s Office was responding to things like robberies, harassment or traffic accidents. Last week the Sheriff’s Office launched a new Crime Mapping/ Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) Public Log. The system allows both the media and the public to have a short report on what...
High school basketball practice starts this week and there are two middle school girls games at home. Tuesday will be the fall sports awards starting at 6pm. Have a great week and GO EAGLES! Neil Barrett, McKenzie High School Athletic Director Sports schedule McKenzie River Reflections...
Search & Rescue team MIDDLE SISTER: Benjamin Newkirk, the 39-year-old climber from Bend, Oregon, was found deceased late this morning (11/16) after a multi-day search that was complicated by extreme weather. Newkirk was climbing the Middle Sister with another climber when he fell off the west side of the south-east ridge of the mountain on Wednesday, November 12th, at approximately 10:00 pm. The search team today included 15 volunteers total from Eugene Mountain Rescue and Corvallis Mountain Rescue, two Incident Command staff in Bend assisting...
