Alsea News

Police say David Wilson of Waldport was driving home on Highway 34 last week when he saw a pickup off the road.

Salem Holiday Market vendors Cathy McAllister and Leon Jarrett of Alsea arose early Saturday morning to get to Salem and open their Industrious Dragonfly booth.

State troopers salvaged the meat from a bull elk shot with an arrow out of season in the Alsea unit near Mapleton, Ore., on Saturday and donated the meat to charity.

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Alsea River Hatchery is scheduled to begin fin-clipping Monday of juvenile fish prior to release.

Lunchtime at Leaping Lamb Farm in Alsea and a toddler scrambles around the henhouse looking for eggs.

It could cost people more to camp and visit federal recreation sites in Oregon, including proposals for the first-ever day-use fees at Elkhorn Valley and Canyon Creek, both operated by the Salem District of the Bureau of Land Management.

Five-year-old Isaiah Woolworth is from Tacoma, but one recent morning, he was in a 1930 barn, dropping hay into a manger and laughing "Baaa" at nearby sheep, some of which answered back.

When drug investigators swept into a Mexican marijuana plantation two years ago in a remote patch of forest near Alsea Falls , they found a 19-year-old grower sound asleep in a drying tent, a stolen double-barrel shotgun at his side.

The only three measures on the Nov. 3 ballot for Marion County voters are proposed by Santiam Canyon towns.

Waldport's mayor, Herman Welch, as of February 2009, has become the first public official to become a registered Independent political figure in the state of Oregon.