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Facing dueling proposals to map ambulance service within Polk County, the commissioners instead approved a compromise solution that all sides agreed was a good start.

Dallas and the Southwest Polk Fire districts are asking Polk County to give it parts of the ambulance service area that Dallas now occupies.

Competing plans for ambulance service areas around Dallas differ in only one crucial way -- where to draw boundary lines.

By David Hayes

Southwestern Polk Rural Fire District recently received a $32,607 grant from the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation to purchase nine sets of structural personal protective equipment. This critical equipment will

He helped families, orphans, prisoners, World War II servicemen and even wildlife. His campaign making slippers for soldiers went nationwide.

It was supposed to be the year we took off our masks and breathed a sigh of relief following COVID. And things did start returning to normal, or normal-ish: some annual ...

It was supposed to be the year we took off our masks and breathed a sigh of relief following COVID. And things did start returning to normal, or normal-ish: some annual ...

County calls on all residents to skip the fireworks this year Yamhill County Commissioners have joined the county Fire Defense Board in calling on all residents not to set off fireworks to celebrate July 4 th this year. “Have a safe, fun, fireworks-free Independence Day,” the board order, released on Friday, says. The order, signed by all three county commissioners, Terry Lucich who is Fire Defense Board chief and chief of the Lafayette and Carlton fire departments, and by Fred Hertel, chie...