Itemizer-Observer report

Least Competent Criminal

SW Polk, Sheridan and West Valley Fire Districts came together for the inaugural Combined Awards Banquet on Jan. 25. The districts have been sharing personnel and equipment to improve services within the communities they serve.

Applications for the Oregon Historic Theater Grant are now open.  Matching grants in amounts between $15,000 and $100,000 are available out of a total of $620,000. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2020. A free webinar providing information about the application and using the online …

Today is the 29th day of 2020 and the 40th day of winter.

Extreme Measures

Grants available for historic properties and archaeology projects

Least Competent Criminals

SALEM – Three Oregon loggers representing southwest, northwest and eastern Oregon have been chosen as 2019 Operators of the Year. The Oregon Board of Forestry will honor the recipients at its March 4 meeting in Salem. The awardees are:

People With Issues

Independence Vision 2040 survey open

Polk County’s Freeborn inducted into Oregon Farm Bureau Hall of Fame

People Different From Us

Two nonprofits awarded money from Spirit Mountain

Caregiver resources hotline available

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Fatal crash on Highway 22

Student Success Act discussion Dec. 4

On Nov. 26 at 4:45 p.m., Oregon State Troopers and emergency personnel responded to the report of a two-vehicle crash, which resulted in a single fatality, on 22 W at Perrydale Rd, Polk County.

Inexplicable

Spooktacular!

Creme de la Weird

MONMOUTH/INDEPENDENCE — All out-of-district enrollment is closed for Central School District.

DALLAS — Jump Start and Ready for Kindergarten, two kindergarten transition programs in Dallas School District, has helped 45 students and 25 families get ready for the first year of school.

Defendant also asks for 32 counts to be dismissed

DALLAS — School lunch prices in the Dallas School District will increase by 10 cents for the upcoming school year.

DALLAS — The Dallas City Council approved the contract for new Dallas City Manager Brian Latta.

MONMOUTH — Expect delays and detours as construction continues on OR 99W through the city of Monmouth.

On July 29, 2019 at 3:00 p.m., the Oregon State Police and emergency personnel responded to a single vehicle fatal crash near Grand Ronde.

Dallas city manager candidates selected

Third tax payments due

Call 811 first

DALLAS — The deadline to file an appeal in the city of Dallas’ approval of the Mint Valley Paper facility was Friday and no one filed an appeal.

Salem man sentenced on drug charges

Chemeketa named as finalist

Deputy to graduate DPSST

State seeks volunteers to help vets

The Siletz Tribal Charitable Fund gave the weekly Falls City Produce Giveaway a $1,400 grant for fuel to transport the produce from Marion-Polk Food Share in Salem to Mountain Gospel Church in Falls City.

Western Oregon University Behavioral Sciences Division is hosting a seminar about the myths and realities of one particular aspect of the sex abuse issue (convicted offenders) and consider how it pertains to the larger realm of sex abuse (offenders not reported or convicted).

The Dallas City Council approved a revised ordinance creating a fee to pay police officers and firefighter paramedics.

Oregon’s unemployment rate was 3.9 percent in July, which was Oregon’s lowest unemployment rate since comparable records began in 1976.

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