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Cub Scouts gearing up for Woodburn-area revival

Scouting will get a another life in Woodburn. That is if the Woodburn Kiwanis Club has anything to say about it. According to James Audritsh, the Woodburn Kiwanis Club has been asked to resurrect a Cub Scout pack for local youth that would encompass the North Marion, Woodburn, and Gervais communities.
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Look at those city-owned lots now

Last July the Albany City Council rejected an offer of $125,o00 for three blighted lots at the corner of Ninth Avenue and Jackson Street. The properties seem to have been forgotten since. Neither the lots themselves nor the parking strip on the street, normally the responsibility of the property owner,...
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Oregon to Honor Fallen Officers in Annual Memorial Ceremony in Salem

Oregon’s law enforcement community will gather Tuesday afternoon in Salem for an annual ceremony that reflects both the weight of past loss and the absence of new tragedy in the year behind it. The 2026 Oregon Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m. on May 5 at...
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Record-hot afternoon expected today

We’ve arrived at what will be our warmest day of the year and a hot afternoon. The abnormally hot afternoon has led us to declare today a First Alert Weather Day. We still expect temperatures to touch right around 90°, which would be a new daily high temperature for the day. The current record is 89°, so if we don’t quite make it to...
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FIRST ALERT: Record-warm highs expected Sunday

Record heat likely Sunday = First Alert Weather Day. We got plenty of warm sunshine Saturday afternoon in the Portland area, with highs climbing into the mid 70s. Kelso got to 80 degrees! A bit more cloud cover to our south kept Salem and Eugene in the 60s. There was...
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New exhibit at Philomath Museum explores themes of shelter, survival

The Philomath Museum’s Moreland Gallery will open a new exhibit on Saturday featuring works from the Corvallis Art Guild that explore themes of shelter, safety and survival. “Refuge: Where Life Endures” runs May 2 through July 25 and marks the latest community showing from a guild that traces its roots back 80 years when local artists came together to make art in the aftermath...
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Area Events: Plenty of stuff to do and see locally

Spring Art Show: Woodburn High School’s Spring Art Show & Sale will be Thursday, May 14, from 3:30 to 6;30 p.m. at the Woodburn Art Center, 2551 N. Boones Ferry Rd. The event offers free admission and refreshments. Brewfest Is Back: Brewfest returns to the Clackamas County Event Center...
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Semi-truck rollover crash briefly closes highway SE of Salem

SALEM Ore. (KPTV) - A crashed semi-truck closed Aumsville Highway just southeast of Salem for multiple hours on Saturday afternoon, according to the Salem Police Department. Around noon, witnesses called emergency services about a semi-truck that had overturned on Aumsville Highway Southeast near Joseph Street Southeast. At 1 p.m., police...
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Bomb squad checks out ‘suspicious’ backpack near Aurora State Airport; Roads briefly closed

AURORA Ore. (KPTV) - Officials closed roads near the Aurora State Airport in Marion County on Saturday morning while officers investigated a “suspicious backpack” found nearby, according to the sheriff’s office. According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Arndt Road Northeast and Airport Road Northeast were closed...
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Run Oregon Road Trip to The Inn at Dayton

At Run Oregon, we obviously love running — no surprise there. But we also love the Pacific Northwest and everything that makes this corner of the world such an incredible place to explore. Running is a big part of who we are, but it doesn’t define us entirely.

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