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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hamilton is a small ranching hamlet in Grant County, Oregon. It is located between the towns of Long Creek and Monument. The site is named for John Henry Hamilton, the first settler in the area.

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 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) ...

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 ...

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