Philomath News

Local high schoolers interested in working in the woods got a taste of the profession Wednesday, Nov.

Hattie Yeager says it's like something out of an Animal Planet TV show--her cattle dog Misty is safe at home, 18 months after the cattle dog ran away.

PHILOMATH, Ore. -- Stephanie Louise Wolk, 51, formerly of Rochester, passed away peacefully at her home in Philomath, Ore., on Oct.

Arrests: 4:44 p.m., Monday, Oct. 26 - Scott Edward Nelson, 56, of Corvallis, was charged with menacing, unlawful use of a weapon and disorderly conduct after he allegedly threatened to kill another man while he was in the public bathrooms located at Northwest 1st Street and Van Buren Avenue.

Sweet Home High School will make one final plea to the Oregon School Activities Association next Monday, Oct.

Trees dwarf visitors in the Valley of the Giants in the Oregon Coast Range of Lincoln County.

Arrests 6:15 p.m., Sunday, October 11 - Darren Perreard, 39, of Corvallis, was charged with assault in the fourth degree and criminal trespassing in the second degree after he allegedly admitted to punching another person in the face.

Disheartening, packing an entire home into cardboard boxes, and then into a battered rental truck.

Authorities have completed the recovery of Brooke Wilberger's remains, which were found off an abandoned logging road west of Philomath.

Joel Courtney agreed to the plea bargain that would put him in prison for the rest of his life for killing Brooke Wilberger but spare him from the death penalty because it included a provision to allow him to serve out his sentence near his family, an attorney for Courtney said Tuesday.

Mid-Willamette Conference: Corvallis won the league a year ago, but Crescent Valley returns senior Benjamin Condrea, the defending district champion.

In an isolated stretch of sagebrush and rimrock 91 miles east of Bend, a 21-year-old cowboy with big dreams climbs into a narrow chute and sits on the back of a squirming bronco, as cowboys have done in this part of central Oregon for decades.

The variegated clumps of Hosta 'Wolverine' combine beautifully with other perennials, shrubs and trees.

Sept. 16: The Silver Falls Oktoberfest Invitational pits many of the top small-school runners against a scenic course at Silver Falls State Park that includes a hill called 'The Monster.' Sept.

Marcus Larson/News-Register Ten-year-old Cheyenne Phillips and her pony, Bob, practice barrel racing, sharply rounding the first of three obstacles in a race against the clock.

Two Lane County residents died Thursday night in a crash on Oregon 99W, about two miles north of Junction City, Oregon State Police.

H eard of food miles yet? That's the term for the distance vegetables and other edibles travel to reach your plate.

Multnomah County Commissioners could vote as soon as October to institute Oregon's first county-wide vehicle registration fee.

Wild turkeys have returned to Philomath and the city is ready to shoot the birds if they don't behave.

High-schoolers dance in a class that's part of Lane Community College's ArtsWork in Education program.