Mount Angel News

The urban-rural divide may continue to tear Oregon apart, but we at the Go! Gamut believe that city life and country life each has its unique pleasures.

Mt. Angel native and Marion County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Eric Hlad was promoted Oct.

The city of Wilsonville is holding its Fall Harvest Festival from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

Marion County Sheriff's Acting Sgt. Eric Hlad has been promoted to lead the office's enforcement division.

Although Silver Falls School District enrollment shows only a slight increase this school year, staff members were in for a surprise at Mark Twain Middle School.

The line for dinner didn't let up for more than an hour earlier this month as students, parents and staffers celebrated the new school year at McKinley Elementary School with a meal together.

Police report Wilsonville Police reported the following incidents. The department is run under contract by the Clackamas County Sheriffa TMs Office.

Adam Gamudi, 17, has earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Adam is a senior at Silverton High School, who started Scouts with Troop 485 in the sixth grade.

Justin Little was a wanderer who grew up in a close-knit Catholic family in Silverton.

To any unknowing passer-by, the herd of cattle is just that - a group of ungulates chewing the cud in a pasture.

An arbitration hearing last week determined that the city of Mount Angel complied with its contract with former city administrator Jim Hunt in terminating Hunt's employment.

The Northwest Senior & Disability Services offers noon meals at the Silverton and Mount Angel meal sites for anyone age 60 and older.

A fire in Gervais Monday evening left a family of seven without a home. Woodburn Fire District responded at 9:30 p.m. Monday to a report of a carport on fire.

Wine and chocolate will be paired from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at The Chocolate Box, 202 N Water St., in Silverton.

If the temperature is dropping, Halloween decorations are already in stores and Polka music can be heard in distance, it must be autumn.

We have gone to the Mt. Angel Oktoberfest more times than other annual community celebrations in Oregon.

The number of homeless students in the Silver Falls School District spiked last year, following a statewide trend likely driven by the recession, school officials said.

Here's other opportunities to enjoy the outdoors this week: thursday -Get together with Cascade Paddlers, an unstructured group of canoers and kayakers who go on outings and activities on a variety of waters, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Boon's Treasury, 888 Liberty St.

Congressman Kurt Schrader will be on hand to answer questions from the public on Monday in Mount Angel.

Oktoberfest officially is under way. Thursday's dreary morning skies gave way to afternoon sunshine, and by 1 p.m., the streets of Mount Angel were packed with people ready to fully celebrate the harvest, a celebration that will continue through Sunday.