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Local News – Sandy Lessons; Found Mushroom Picker; Recycle!

November 2, 2012 Super Storm Sandy— Local Lessons Local disaster preparedness officials are looking to the east coast this week for lessons on what to do… and what not to do… to prepare for disaster.  Joan Edwards with the West Lane Emergency Operations Group says interviews with survivors of Hurricane […]

3rd Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 11/02/2012 10:40 AM OR–3rd NewsMinute/287 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press   SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Oregon students taking part in a mock election chose Barack Obama over Mitt Romney 62 percent to 32 percent in the race for president. Results released today by the […]

NW Sports from the AP

Date: 11/02/2012 05:30 AM NW–1st SportsMinute/352 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press   RENTON, Wash. (AP) – Eight games into his inaugural campaign as starting quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks, Russell Wilson has begun to find a groove. The Seahawks have put […]

1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

Date: 11/02/2012 03:59 AM OR–1st NewsMinute/307 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press   SALEM, Ore. (AP) – Marion County sheriff’s deputies have arrested an eighth-grader at a Salem middle school after finding the 13-year-old boy had a loaded BB gun that looked like a semi-automatic pistol […]

Missing Mushroom Picker Found

A 69-year old Florence man spent the night in the rain south of Dunes City, but searchers were able to locate Bill Sathe shortly after 11 this morning.  Sathe had gone mushroom picking with four others yesterday, but failed to make a rendevous late in the afternoon.  Several searchers spent […]