The Jefferson County Commissioners have officially filed an appeal of the Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map, released after many amendments in early 2025. A total of 11,720 properties in Jefferson County are ...

Two Culver High School football standouts — Houston Wittenberg and Jace Silbernagel — have been selected to be on the East team in the 2025 East West Shrine Game. The Culver head coach, Brian ...

Madras attorney Eric Nisley has applied for the position of Jefferson County District Attorney and is the sole applicant, as applications closed in February. The governor’s office appoints DA’s to ...

On Saturday, Feb. 8, a dodgeball tournament was hosted by Jefferson County 4-H at the Culver High School gymnasium. There were two brackets, an adult bracket and a youth bracket. For the youth bracket ...

Two Madras post players, Reed Simmelink and Matthew Suppah-Scott, landed on the first team of the all-Tri-Valley Conference boys basketball squad. Simmelink, a senior, and Suppah-Scott, a junior, were ...

Scappoose came into Madras for the first round of the 4A boys state basketball playoffs Saturday, March 8 and hammered the White Buffalos 76-49. The Indians got scoring from across their lineup and ...

Stacona was one of three MHS players to earn all-league honors. Senior guard Bianca Plazola and junior guard LaRhia Stevens earned honorable mention.

The long-awaited El Torito Market opened this past weekend in the former Erickson’s Thriftway building in Madras. The seventh location of the Oregon-based Mexican market held a soft-opening March 8.

Did you know that although “County” is part of the Jefferson County Library District’s name, we are not a department of Jefferson County? I’ve encountered several instances in the last month where ...

The Central Oregon Master Gardener Association has filled the Saturday schedule in April with eight topics. These webinars are available to the general public for a modest fee of $5 per online seminar ...

December 2, 1929 to February 27, 2025~ Bernideen Perkins, 95, of Madras, passed away February 27, 2025, of natural causes. She was born December 2, 1929, to parents, Charles and Leona (Muskgrave) ...

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