Joseph News

Just a year ago, I turned 65, had a modest Social Security income and half-time job with the nonprofit I'd founded 20 years earlier, and I was divorced - amicably - after a 34-year marriage.

An old growth stand of Ponderosa pine near Sisters that has been treated by thinning and fire.

Geese rise over Wallowa Lake at sunset last week, a serene counterpoint to a bitter fight over who should fight fires in the area.

Editor's note: This article on Gerald Botts and his experience at Pearl Harbor first appeared in The Observer's 2002 special edition about Union and Wallowa county veterans.

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The state Department of Fish and Wildlife says a wildlife biologist videotaped a pack of at least 10 gray wolves on Forest Service land in Eastern Oregon.

Linda Chong is the Senior Project Manager / Engagement Manager working at Microsoft Consulting Services in Singapore.

Half-hidden under a low bush in New Windsor's Calvary Cemetery, with the name unreadable until you pull away some branches, lies the headstone of the Rev.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski joined a crowd of around 150 this week to celebrate the opening of Oregon's newest state park.

Sister Catherine Hellmann may have died last month, but friends and colleagues gathered Thursday to pay tribute to a woman who won't soon be forgotten in Central Oregon Published: October 16.

He was the son of Matthew and Mary Crotty, and was educated at St. Kierans, Kilkenny, Ireland.

Wind turbines in eastern Oregon in 2008. Federal funds will boost renewable energy development in the state.

Superintendent Rhonda Shirley and Joseph High Principal Sherri Kilgore have led Joseph High staff and students to high academic achievement.

A stallion will grace Ashland's sidewalks as local galleries stay open into the evening for the First Friday Art Walk this week.

A Oregon man from Wolf Creek who has eluded police multiple times has finally been captured.

Jim Giles, a 20 year resident of Sisters, OR, passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home on August 21st.

It's been a relatively mild fire season in Oregon so far and -- knock on dry wood -- fire agencies are hoping it stays that way.

By Catholic News Service NEW ORLEANS - The Knights of Peter Claver, the nation's largest lay organization for African-American Catholics, kicked off its 100th anniversary celebration during an annual convention in New Orleans July 31-Aug. 7. At an Aug.

The permanent baptismal font greets parishioners as they enter the large, new church.

A car arrives at the top terminal of the Wallowa Lake Tramway south of Joseph. Double the suggested time for this trip and you still won't scratch the surface of what northeast Oregon has to offer.