By DEAN REA/Correspondent/The Herald — The preliminary architectural design of Lowell’s library and City Hall at 70 N. Pioneer St. will be presented for public review at 6 p.m. Thursday. The design by Curt Wilson, a Eugene architect, is based on suggestions offered by city officials and residents during a[Read More…]

Oakridge Voices for Education, a local schools advocacy group headed by Nicole Sulick of Oakridge, has announced a Facebook Live question-and-answer event with the three school board candidates she and her group support in the May 18 elections. The session, set for 6 p.m. Thursday May 6, will feature conversations[Read More…]

People who are not registered to vote in any Oregon county may register online at oregonvotes.gov no later than 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27, to be eligible to cast ballots in the May 18 elections. Oakridge, Lowell and Pleasant Hill school district voters will fill school board positions in the[Read More…]

Oakridge minister and poet Iris Barratt is calling on the community to join her for a brief Earth Day observance and celebration at noon Thursday, April 22, at Greenwaters Park in Oakridge. “Come and celebrate Earth Day with us,” she writes in a news release.  “Bring your drum, rattle, voice,[Read More…]

As Thursday’s 5 p.m. filing deadline looms, a school bus driver and a teacher have filed to run for the Oakridge School Board in the May 18 election. Lisa Samuelson, a driver for First Student school buses, and Stacy Tindall, and elementary school teacher and counselor, have filed for Oakridge’s[Read More…]