Independence News

Ben Bauman, president-elect of the Dallas Rotary Club, will speak about an international service project aimed at improving conditions of sanitation to a community in Nicaragua at the noon meeting Thursday, June 7, held at First Baptist Church 1505 Monmouth St., Independence.

Richard Sorenson, is a retired conductor of the Western Oregon University Band, and the current conductor of the Willamette Valley Concert Band and the Reconstructed Band of Monmouth and Independence.

When Oregon's high school graduates get their diplomas next month, a greater percentage of them than ever before will be Latinos.

As the race for Polk County Commission Position No. 1 moves to the November ballot, the precinct breakdown paints a clear picture of the road ahead.

Independence has joined many other municipalities nationwide in allowing backyard chickens.

By Joseph J. Ellis The most famous speech in American history begins this way: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Lincoln's eloquence at Gettysburg was lyrical but not historically accurate.

West Valley Hospital Foundation announced the awarding of 22 scholarships for a total of $29,000 to Polk County residents for the 2012-13 school year.