Ethan David Abernathy, Lucas Sylvan Ainsworth, Corey Dodge Aja, James David Alexander, Daniel Angel Amezquita, Lydia Arthurs, Yonatan Merino Ayala, Judah Clay Bacho, Jace Tyler Barrett.
Three Philomath school board seats were up for grabs during Tuesday’s special election.
Philomath police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide that happened Sunday morning at the Forest Meadows manufactured home park.
Linn and Benton counties added 53 cases of COVID-19, 649 new confirmed and presumptive cases of the disease were reported statewide and the mid-valley’s largest workplace outbreak was declared resolved, the Oregon Health Authority announced on Wednesday.
The mid-valley has added 44 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19, one new death from the disease and several new workplace outbreaks, according to new daily totals released on Wednesday by the Oregon Health Authority.
This year’s Albany Veterans Day Parade may have been scaled back due to COVID-19, but the event still rates a flyover by military fighter jets.
The two Democratic candidates for Benton County commissioner emerged as clear winners Tuesday night in unofficial returns as the county’s first-in-the-state ranked choice voting system got its first real-world test.
There's still time to register for the Gobbler’s Revenge, a trio of Thanksgiving benefit running events that raise money for the Corvallis Lions Club.
The two Democratic candidates for Benton County commissioner emerged as clear winners Tuesday night in unofficial returns as the county’s first-in-the-state ranked choice voting system got its first real-world test.
Oregon State University recently announced names of students who made the summer term scholastic honor roll.
A weekly collection of random thoughts while providing newspaper coverage and from my travels around Philomath that are originally published in an online blog. — Brad Fuqua, editor
TANGENT — A herd of horses from a Boy Scouts camp near Scotts Mills is safe and sound because of volunteer efforts led by Linn-Benton Community College and Cascade Equine Veterinary Clinic.
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The Vina Moses Center in Corvallis is distributing free clothing, cots, blankets, household goods and other items to people displaced by Oregon’s wildfires.
With smoke and ash filling the skies through most of the week and residents on edge amid news of the devastation ripping through several Oregon communities, a fire broke out just after midnight early Thursday morning in Philomath.
What’s more important: personal liberty or national security?
A Philomath woman was taken to the hospital after a collision Sept. 9 on Highway 20 at Granger Road, about halfway between Corvallis and Albany.
Benton County and the city of Corvallis both declared a state of emergency last week in response to the rash of Oregon wildfires.
CORVALLIS — Some of the key players have changed, but the battles over Oregon State University’s research forests continue unabated.
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Jim Dandee Morris of Newport will serve 20 years in prison for shooting at four people and killing one in an apparent plot to kill his then-girlfriend’s estranged husband. The girlfriend, Julie Ann Thurman of Waldport, will serve eight years for her role.
The city of Philomath has $66,500 to spend with its small businesses and $28,500 with social service agencies through a pair of grant programs that were created to help cover their pandemic-related expenses.