Corvallis police investigate home invasion robbery

Corvallis Police Officers responded at about 11:52 p.m. Thursday to a report of a home invasion robbery at a south Corvallis residence.

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Updated food Web site offers updated resources list

Program is a partnership between Oregon Food Bank, OSU Extension Service

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Heavy snowfall provides early start for Oregon ski areas

With recent storms dumping snow in the mountains and more on the way, most Oregon ski areas will be open by Thanksgiving.

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OSU faculty face mandatory furloughs

Amount of unpaid leave required depends on employees' pay levels

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Youth shelter shows off rehab work

Freshly baked cookies, hot chocolate and smiles greeted visitors to the Jackson Street Youth Shelter's open house on Thursday to show off the remodeled portions of the refuge for young people in crisis.

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A call to readers

It's that time of year, when we invite you to share with us your most memorable holiday recollections of Christmas or the celebration that for you or your family is most appropriate to the season.

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Water utility rate increase suggested

Jump would add $1.60 to typical monthly bills

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Letter: Student's plea to lead-footed drivers: Please slow down! (Nov. 18)

We have some pretty crazy drivers in North Albany! I am a student in Mrs. Crow's fifth-grade math class, and we were doing a project on averaging. We borrowed a radar gun from the Corvallis Police Department to find out the average speed of drivers in our school zone. About 72 percent of …

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Gazette-Times letter guidelines

LETTERS should be original and no longer than 250 words. Letters must include the author's name, a street address, and a daytime telephone number.

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Students play pilgrims for a day

After 10 minutes of vigorously shaking a jar filled with whipping cream, Brady Gerken exclaimed, "I think I am done! I don't hear the marble anymore!"

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Cash needed for food drive

Money will pay for turkeys, other perishable goods

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Stahlbush Island Farms brand plumps up supply of pumpkin pie filling

A Corvallis company is rescuing many holiday pie-bakers this year with its increased production of organic canned pumpkin filling.

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Model railroaders celebrate 50 years

ADAIR VILLAGE - The Corvallis Society of Model Engineers, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is getting ready for its annual open houses between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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Passersby rescue kids, mom from creek after wreck

A 6-month-old boy from Grand Ronde was critically injured Wednesday after his mother, whom authorities suspect of drunken driving, crashed her van into a Lincoln County creek. According to the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, the crash happened on Widow Creek Road in Rose Lodge, about eig…

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Couple hands out holiday cash at Target

ALBANY - Customers at Albany's Target store received an unexpected visit Wednesday from a couple distributing $100 bills.

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Letter: Forcing people to buy insurance is a gross insult to them (Nov. 18)

Tom McClintock's Nov 17 letter, "Most people without health insurance aren't choosing not to buy it," misunderstood at least part of what I wrote about health insurance.

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Lette: City must reconsider priorities in Bald Hill Farms store's closure (Nov. 18)

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Fire calls (Nov. 20)

Corvallis Fire Department

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Health care film showing at library

Local health reform advocates will present a free screening of the documentary "Money-Driven Medicine" at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library, 645 N.W. Monroe Ave.

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