By DOUG BATES/Editor/The Herald -- Oakridge may not be a town full of rich people, but it is a town rich with good people. Over a period of seven emotional hours Saturday, scores of them came together in a show of unity, love and support for a family whose lives have...
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Fundraiser planned Saturday at Oakridge bistro for youth who was severely injured in car accident
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Oakridge-Westfir community has rallied to the aid of 18-year-old Ashton Tilton, the Oakridge High School Class of 2021 valedictorian, who was critically injured in a single-car accident near Hills Creek Reservoir on Sept. 11. A GoFundMe.com campaign...
Car wreck critically injures Oakridge valedictorian; young friends may have saved his life, family says
By DOUG BATES/Editor/The Herald -- On a starlit summer night in the woods outside Oakridge, 18-year-old Ashton Tilton lay on the ground bleeding, his legs crushed, after pulling himself out of a window of his wrecked car. Alone in the dark with no one nearby on the...
No masks or rain, just high spirits and a tear or two, as 37 Oakridge graduating seniors receive diplomas
By DOUG BATES/Editor/The Herald -- Robbed of a traditional commencement ceremony last year because of the scourge of disease, Oakridge High School made up for it Saturday morning with a sun-splashed, joyful graduation on the freshly mowed grass of Ziegler Field....