Brooks News

Garbage - it's generated day after day, in ever increasing amounts, and Marion County wants it considered a renewable resource.

Bid Date/Time: Feb. 25, 2 p.m. Chemeketa Community College is a comprehensive educational institution in the Willamette Valley.

Gervais Elementary students in the Gervais School District emptied their piggy banks and searched through drawers for spare change to donate to Haiti earthquake relief efforts.

Marion County Commissioners voted in favor of a new solid-waste plan Wednesday that calls for residents to increase the county's recycling rate to 70 percent in the next five years.

Outside the Jim Ramsey III Community Center, the skies were grey and threatening, but inside the message was clear: Work by the Rev.

The public has a final opportunity to comment on the county's plan for dealing with garbage, recycling and compost materials for the next five to 10 years.

Marion County went through a turbulent 2009. The high unemployment rate caused consternation for nearly everyone: county government was forced to do an across-the-board 5 percent budget cut, and the former sheriff abruptly resigned.

Oregon State Police Sgt. Derek Bischoff stopped a driver on Interstate 5 Wednesday morning for texting while on the road.

Frank Merrill of Mount Angel has been recognized by Oregon Trucking Associations as the October 2009 City Driver of the Month.

Local law enforcers have begun stopping drivers for talking on hand-held cell phones, but most aren't being given traffic tickets yet, officials said.

For the past three and a half years, Dr. Arlene Brooks of Homestead Veterinary Clinic in Turner has been a Santa of sorts for area animal-rescue groups.

Police and fire crews are responding to a crash on Interstate 5 northbound about three miles north of Brooks.

After feeling like the Oregon Legislature has been missing the needs of the citizens of Oregon, Kathy LeCompte has decided to do something about it.

Kathy LeCompte, owner of Brooks Tree Farm, has been recruited by Oregon House Republicans to challenge three-term Democratic Rep.

A traffic stop north of Brooks netted a Santa Barbara, California man and about 40 pounds of marijuana, Oregon State Police said Thursday afternoon.

Pianist Chanelle Arneson will be the featured soloist when the Evangel University Orchestra performs its fall concert at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov.

A Portland woman survived after her car rammed through a barrier, flew through the air and slammed into a semi-truck -- and after her stay in the hospital, she was arrested.

A Keizer man needs help to advance in the CMT Music City Madness contest. One of 64 amateur singer-songwriters chosen, there's big stakes for Jay Mast if he wins - a trip to Nashville, Tenn.

An open house to review options for the Chemawa Road interchange at Interstate 5 will be from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.

October marks National Arts and Humanities Month - and Thursday, October 8, the anniversary of Oregon's unique cultural tax credit, is Oregon Day of Culture.