Stayton News

An Oregon family living at Fort Hood in Texas are OK after the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military base.

Cascade School District's Annual Grandparent Thanksgiving Dinner is set for Friday, Nov.

Josh Behrens' grandfather farmed corn and grass seed all his life in the Stayton area.

Dick, 79, died Oct. 8 in Otis. He was born in Arvin, Calif., moving to Albany in 1943.

Stayton High School is featuring its first-ever Career Fair from 1:20 to 6 p.m. today and 1:20 to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

A Stayton man was arrested early this morning after he drove his truck into a bank.

Serena Frank of Aumsville took a step forward to look into the tearful eyes of a 14-year-old girl - her daughter's best friend - in a Marion County courtroom Thursday.

A six-week grief support group will begin meeting in November at Santiam Memorial Hospital in Stayton.

Ken Cartwright Program Director of AM 1620 Community Radio. "It's not how big your watts are, It's how you use them!" www.kencradio.com - On October 18, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. hundreds of listeners heard Ken Cartwright and Jan Castillo exchange vows and become husband and wife on local community radio station AM 1620 KENC.

Some years ago, I worked at the Stayton Mail as a jack-of-most-trades. I was a reporter, columnist, circulation manager - I would have swept the floor if asked.

Regis High School's major fundraiser of the year is Saturday. Doors open at 5 p.m. for the annual auction, themed "Regis Big Fat Greek Auction." Last year's earnings raised $280,000 gross for Stayton's private Catholic high school, auction coordinator Gay Frank said.

Photographer Dorothea Lange is best known for her portrait of a young migrant mother in California, stoically resting chin in hand while her children huddle close to her.

Ken Cartwright and Jan Castillo will invite friends and family to tune into their internet wedding.

A furnace fire was reported at Cascade High School just after 6 a.m. Wednesday. Maintenance staffers at the school reported the fire, which started in the school entryway.

North Santiam Home Education is presenting "Home School Days" in partnership with the Stayton Public Library at the library's conference room this school year.

Jan Castillo is the calmest bride-to-be you'll ever meet. It's a week before the big day, and she doesn't have a worry in the world.

An annual chicken dinner at St. Boniface Catholic Church in Sublimity is set for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday.

Stayton/Sublimity Chamber of Commerce's Main Street committee needs more downtown businesses to join Stayton's first-ever Halloween trick-or-treat celebration, set for Friday, Oct.

Thank you to the Santiam Canyon Open Golf Tournament Committee of Curt Froemke, Randy Wolf, Peter Whitney, Todd Jensen and Alisha Oliver for the time and energy you each put in to create another successful event Sept.

Ugo's Pizza, 190 E. Ida St. in downtown Stayton, will be hosting a 'Pizza Night Out' on Monday to benefit the Stayton Community Food Bank, food bank manager Edna Rickman said.