Long gone are the days when members of the Oregon National Guard were weekend warriors who fought fires and floods. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, changed virtually everything about the Oregon National Guard. How they operate, how they train, how they deploy and how they are viewed. Most […]
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Weather adds to weekend festivities
If they handed out Academy Awards for the Rods and Rhodies Classic Car Show over the weekend, the weather would have received one for the best supporting role Saturday. Temperatures neared 80 degrees and there was plenty of sunshine […]
2nd Oregon News Minute from the AP
AP-OR–2nd NewsMinute,262 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – An off-duty Portland police officer has been arrested on a drunken driving charge. Clackamas County deputies say officer Randy Vanderhoof was arrested Friday night when a deputy noticed him sleeping in his car off […]
Prep Sports results from the weekend
It was a dominant weekend for the Siuslaw Vikings in the first full weekend of prep activity. Prep Football… The Siuslaw Vikings took advantage of short fields and scored twice in the first five minutes Friday night against the Junction City Tigers, eventually coming out on top 39-7 to open […]
NW Sports from the AP
AP-NW–1st SportsMinute,318 Here is the latest Washington, Oregon and Alaska sports news from The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Ted Ginn Jr. returned a kickoff and a punt for touchdowns in a minute’s span late in the fourth quarter, and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Seattle Seahawks 33-17 […]
1st Oregon News Minute from the AP
AP-OR–1st NewsMinute,323 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) – Officials say a blaze fueled by lichens and mosses burning in forest treetops on the north side of Mount Hood has grown considerably and moved to the north. Fire spokesman Mike Heilman says […]
Looking Back – 9-11 ten years later
Six weeks after the tragedy. Coast Radio’s Wayne Sharpe visited New York City to witness, first hand, the destruction at ground zero. His brother, Michael Sharpe, was a Captain with the Salvation Army and helped feed the hundreds of recovery workers every day at the site. Here’s the conversation they […]
Plenty of coastal activities to beat the inland heat
The National Weather Service has issued an advisory for unseasonably warm September weather in Western Oregon this weekend. Today’s high in the Coast Range and to the East is expected to range into the lower 90s… and into the mid 90s for tomorrow and Sunday. There are plenty of opportunities […]