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Local News: Mapleton Superintendent Leaving; County Holding 3rd Florence Hearing; FEMA says no; Florence Planning to Hear Port Request

Mapleton Superintendent Leaving at End of School Year The Mapleton School Board is holding an emergency meeting this afternoon to discuss the process for finding a new superintendent. The ten-year veteran of that post, Kyle Tucker, will be taking an administrative position in Cottage Grove July First.  Chair Carl West […]

3rd Oregon News Minute from the AP

AP-OR–3rd NewsMinute,260 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press EUGENE, Ore. (AP) – Police say a Eugene man accused of aiming his pickup truck at a neighbor out walking his dog has surrendered. The Register-Guard reports that Frank Ochoa was booked into the Lane County Jail yesterday […]

2nd Oregon News from the AP

AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute,265 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A group angling to put a bipartisan presidential ticket before voters has submitted what may be enough signatures to qualify for the Oregon ballot in November. The Oregonian reports that organizers for Americans Elect […]

1st Oregon News Minute from the AP

AP-OR–1st NewsMinute,327 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Jury deliberations will resume in Portland Tuesday in a lawsuit over the 2008 crash of a helicopter that killed nine firefighters on a wildfire in Northern California. A pilot who survived the crash and […]

NW Sports from the AP

AP-NW–1st SportsMinute,334 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) – Brock Motum scored 25 points to lead Washington State past Wyoming 61-41 in the quarterfinals of the College Basketball Invitational tournament on Monday night. Abe Lodwick added 16 points, 12 […]

AP Regional News

     CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) – Corvallis parks officials have decided that solving flooding caused by beavers at a local park will take a little engineering of their own. The Gazette-Times says beavers have caused flooding at the softball fields at Sunset Park by damming the Dunawi Creek for years. But […]