Toledo News

Betty was born to William and Ida Smouse in Toledo, Oregon. She attended school at Eddyville until the 3rd grade when they moved to Toledo, where she graduated in 1948, and made lifelong friends.

Pearl Harbor survivor Don Overly of Toledo, right, reluctantly accepts a moment in the spotlight with Newport's Frank Wood during Monday's ceremony.

Just this month, council president Joe McNamara was re-elected. Today, word is he's looking to run for another office! State senator Teresa Fedor is term-limited out.

During World War I, the federal government formed a corporation to log and mill spruce for the war effort, calling it the United States Spruce Production Corporation.

The City Council has scheduled interviews next week with three candidates for the interim city administrator's position.

Group wants new DEQ requirements enacted for G-P Toledo mill Concerns about clean air on the central Oregon coast has led a local nonprofit group to ask the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission to provide year-round ambient air monitoring and air testing for dioxins around the Georgia-Pacific mill in Toledo.

OUR READER WHO: Mark Pearson, 32 WHERE: Newport, Ore. QUESTION: Should I jump in and buy my first house? Mark is one of millions of Americans eager to become a homeowner, drawn by low interest rates, affordable property prices and the government's tax credit for first-time buyers.

Henry Hansen picks grapes in his backyard in Green recently. Hansen celebrated his 100th birthday on Sept.

Check out the loads of activities to do this weekend. The state fair, concerts and an art walk, oh my! Oregon State Fair Day of event: Today, Sunday and Monday The fair continues today with "American Idol" winner David Cook on stage at 7:30 p.m. in the L.B. Day Amphitheater.

Jonathan Swift was quoted as saying, "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster," and today people eat them raw, smoked, boiled, fried, stewed, canned, pickled, steamed, or grilled.

When you think of Toledo, you could be forgiven if art isn't the first thing that comes to your mind.

The fifth annual Wooden Boat Show on Aug. 15-16 in Toledo is as much go as it is show.

Matt Love, the author or editor of several books about Oregon , is working on a new book about the filming of "Sometimes a Great Notion" in Lincoln County in 1970.

To answer the question that's looming large in your mind: Yes, there will be fireworks at the Toledo Summer Festival, which this year comes with the tag, 'Doin' Fine in 2009!' But please don't forget that there is plenty going on in the coastal range burg besides just the fireworks .

A man killed his estranged girlfriend and then himself Tuesday in the western Oregon town of Siletz, police said.

Blasting near U.S. 20 will create delays near Eddyville from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today.

ELK CITY, Ore. - Had it been located anywhere else, Elk City could easily have gone by the wayside as have most small towns of the West, backwater hamlets that have fallen into disarray to become known only to an occasional history buff who out of idle curiosity pokes through a pile of rotting boards, rusting metal, crumbling brick or stone to ask, ...

Besides being famous for the $5 breakfasts at McBaron's Tavern and the movie Sometimes a Great Notion, Toledo, Ore., hosts some major industries - all having to do with logging or shipping.

It's a good thing I'm not married because I would have been forced to lie to my wife about where I was having breakfast every morning while I was in Elk City.

The proposed coking plant along the East Toledo-Oregon border receives a private infusion of cash to move forward on the next phase of it's engineering study.