Week of September 12, 2024
Week of September 12, 2024
Linn County Sheriff Michelle Duncan reports that on Sunday, September 1st, dispatch received a report of an injured backpacker at Duffy Lake. The patient was a 16-year-old male from Portland who sustained a broken leg. The patient’s mother had sent a nearby backpacker to hike out and call 911. The good Samaritan made it to Maxwell Butte Sno-Park and contacted Linn County Dispatch at 4 p.m. Duncan said the Linn County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue (SAR) immediately began to mobilize a...
MCKENZIE BRIDGE: A Level 1 (Be Ready) evacuation notice remains in effect for areas North of McKenzie Highway from the East end of Drury Lane East to the Clear Lake Cutoff. Residents have been encouraged to sign up for emergency alerts at www.LaneAlerts.org On September 8th an emergency closure order was issued for the Linton Creek Fire, expected to extend through January 1st, unless rescinded or modified sooner. The fire, caused by a September 6th lightning strike on the McKenzie River Ranger...
VIDA: Passports affirming visits to over 40 countries have helped Tiff and Scott Haugen record some memorable moments. Both spent years as teachers in Alaska and Indonesia - before settling down where they grew up - in Walterville. Both have shared their experiences in books and videos since then, developing full-time careers in the outdoor industry. Last Saturday, Scott detailed some of the action behind the scenes of those stories during a slide show at the Vida McKenzie Community Center....
The Willamette National Forest has issued an emergency closure order for the Linton Creek Fire, Boulder Creek Fire, and other new fires resulting from the lightning storm on Sept. 6, 2024. With widespread fire suppression occurring across the McKenzie River and Middle Fork Ranger Districts and fire growth occurring on multiple fires, the expanded emergency closure area is needed to ensure public and firefighter safety. The closure order rescinds the previous Linton Creek Fire order. A short...
WALTERVILLE: The Eugene Water & Electric Board plans to start generating electricity from the Walterville Hydro plant as soon as possible, “but we need to ensure it is done safely and by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) dam safety requirements.,” according to utility communications specialist Adam Spencer. EWEB dewatered the Walterville Canal in February after receiving an automated alert from a water seepage monitor. The detector, near the Walterville Powerhouse,...
As Oregon heads into another hot weekend, Oregon House Republicans are calling on the state Legislature to reform forest management and logging policies they say would prevent large fires from starting and spreading. In a letter sent Wednesday, Republican Reps. Jeff Helfrich of Hood River, Ed Diehl of Stayton, and E. Werner Reschke of Klamath Falls said lawmakers should roll back regulations and conservation plans to allow more logging on state forests, limit liabilities for volunteer...
Oregon is in the upper echelon when it comes to the number of women in higher office. Four of the five statewide elected positions in the state are held by women, including Tina Kotek in the governor’s office. It is a rare achievement. Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women in Politics, said the national average for women in statewide elected offices is about one in three. However, the number of women in the top positions in Oregon is guaranteed to go down in November, with...
BLUE RIVER: “Lane County will be working once again with the community to determine the feasibility of constructing a separated bike/ped bridge that would support emergency vehicles and withstand an earthquake,” according to senior planner Becky Taylor. The study, she says, “will explore two alignment options and develop design concepts. The goal will be to develop a community-preferred design concept that completes the gap in bike/ped connectivity from the school to the downtown and...
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warns that today’s youth mental health crisis is the “defining public health issue of our time.” He’s right. American adolescents are experiencing unprecedented levels of mental health challenges. Fortunately, there’s a way to reverse these trends. I’ve spent my career studying the intersection of sports and mental health, including roles as the chief medical officer at the NCAA, co-chair of the International Olympic Committee Consensus Meeting on Mental Health in Elite Athletes, and a fellow of...
The thing was, by late 1883, the Vigilantes’ popularity had collapsed, and they didn’t know it. Basically, by this time, everyone who wasn’t one of them was an opponent — but, of course, nobody dared say so. But several of the other folks in the saloon that night were happy to trot on over to Blakely’s place and tell him what Winckler had said about him, and Blakely was furious. He and several friends charged down to the saloon, but by the time they got there the Vigilantes had gone...
Just as we begin to think about wrapping things up in the garden for the season, slugs slither out of their homes underground to lay their eggs for next year. That means it’s time again to slug it out with one of the gardener’s most familiar, frustrating, and certainly slimiest pests. “What slugs want is a place that’s warm and moist,” said Claudia Groth, an Oregon State University Extension Service Master Gardener. “That’s why spring and fall is when they’re most active....
Aug. 28: 3:47 p.m: Disturbance, Dispute - 8000 blk, McK. Hwy. A resident called 911 to get a subject to leave her property. No crime articulated. 8:44 p.m: Theft - 40900 blk, Deerhorn Rd. Ongoing civil issue. Aug. 29: 6:05 p.m: Strangulation - 38100 blk, B St. This case is still actively being investigated. 7:05 p.m: Suspicious Conditions - 38200 blk, Camp Creek Rd. A mail truck was parked for an extended time, but left after being called in as suspicious. Aug. 30: 1:37 p.m: Suspicious Conditions - Mohawk Loop Rd. & Marcola Rd. A large number...
Sept. 4: 14:00: 1100 block, 66th St. Medical, General. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. Sept. 5: 10:23: 39000 blk, McK. Hwy. Medical, General. Patient Refusal. 21:06: McK. Hwy. Milepost 17. Motor Vehicle Accident/Vehicle Fire. Fire Extinguished. Patient Refusal. 21:10: 41000 blk, McK. Hwy. Medical General. Transported. Sept. 6: 9:25: 39000 blk, Jameson Creek Rd. Medical, Heart. Patient Assessed, 1 Transported. 9:38: 43000 blk, Greenwood Village Dr. Structure Fire. Fire Extinguished. 13:40: McK. Hwy. Mp. 18. Subject Down. Contact Made, Subject...
Sept. 9: 13:08: Bike Accident – McK. Hwy./S. Belknap Springs Rd. Male fell off a bike, bystanders are extinguishing. The Upper McK. Fire District’s board of directors will hold its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 16th, at the Blue River Fire Station 2, 51730 Echo St. in Blue...
