Pleasant Hill’s varsity football team not only lost Saturday to Amity, 28-0, but also had to play much of the game without senior quarterback Maxwell Smith, who was injured during the first quarter. The Billies, coached by Joel Smith, had won three straight games to start the season. Amity won[Read More…]
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Oakridge volunteers ready Salmon Creek Garden for community planting around time of final frost
By CHARLES NICHOLS/For The Herald — Eleven volunteers showed up Saturday to refurbish the Salmon Creek Community Garden plots in a project sponsored by the Oakridge Westfir Area Chamber of Commerce as part of the Headwaters Harvest Festival. And since the ground is a former river bottom, there was plenty[Read More…]
Lowell loses varsity football game to Oakland
The Lowell High School varsity football team is adjusting to an 11-man football season but came up short Friday night, losing to Oakland 26-12. The Red Devils, who played eight-man football last season, trailed Oakland at halftime, 20-6. Tailback Austin Smith, who had more than 100 yards rushing, scored on[Read More…]
Quilters give all festival proceeds to community
Regarding Dean Rea’s article on “Annual quilt show first event endorsed to help replace the Blackberry Jam Festival at Lowell,” the Pine Needler Quilt Group raises money for the community, not the club itself, during the Blackberry Jam Quilt Show each year. Just wanted to make it clear that we[Read More…]
A dazzling sunlit morning on Crescent Creek
ROB DeHARPPORT, the former Westfir mayor who retired to the high lakes country east of Oakridge a few years ago, was struck by the sight of the late-morning sun on Crescent Creek not far from his home at Crescent Lake Junction. The result was this photograph, one of many breathtaking[Read More…]