Mount Angel News

Carla Axtman I love local newspapers. The stuff that gets written about at the micro level really intrigues me.

MOUNT ANGEL - Mount Angel's Vincent Gersch doesn't have the memory of a young man.

Due to last year's high turnover rate at Kennedy High School in Mount Angel, one-third of the staff is new this year.

The race for House District 18 is getting personal. Candidates have been going door-to-door and holding informal meetings in an effort to connect with voters before the Nov.

For the past two decades, St. Joseph Shelter in Mount Angel has provided emergency and transitional housing for area families and migrant workers.

This year's Oktoberfest in Mount Angel saw an increase in attendance and a decrease in drunken-driving-related arrests, officials said.

East Valley residents can play a big part in planning the celebration for Oregon's 150th birthday.

The number of homeless students in the Silver Falls School District in 2007-08 nearly doubled from the previous year.

Allied Waste will hold its annual Mount Angel clean up from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

Mount Angel School District SAT scores fell below state averages last year, according to data provided by school officials on Friday.

Some like the music. Others come for the dancing, and there's not a small contingent that goes for the beer.

Amid the many accordions at Oktoberfest, the distinctive sound of disco came wafting out of the Koffee Konnection.

MT. ANGEL, Ore. -- It may seem like summer isn't over yet but time for Oktoberfest is here.

MOUNT ANGEL - The beer, the sausages, the sauerkraut, the lederhosen and dirndls.

I remember going to the Mount Angel Oktoberfest when I was kid. I'd look forward to it every year.

The maypole dance is a tradition at the Mount Angel Oktoberfest, which returns in Sept.

MOUNT ANGEL - Tuesday morning, Mount Angel Middle School councilor Kevin Ortega wasn't himself as he started the first day of school.

They give their symptom reports, often with quiet voices that quiver in a fight against tears - a litany of pain, isolation, poverty, family problems, despair.

Keep all of your child's important school contact information on hand in your wallet, on the fridge or by the phone.

Three Mount Angel City Council members called a special meeting Monday night, with intent to fire the city administrator.