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That question, in the title, rose from a recent Sunday-school lesson on 1 Kings 21, where Queen Jezebel arranged a murder to take the victim’s land for King Ahab. God

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a five-part series looking at aspects of the Fremont Public Schools bond issue which will be decided by mail-in vote on Sept. 14.

Although there were no action items on the agenda devoted to the topic, homelessness remained the main topic for discussion at Monday night’s Corvallis City Council meeting. Simon Date, president and CEO of the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce, offered a presentation of some survey data his organization had collected on the impact on homelessness on downtown business. And the community comments section of the meeting continued to be dominated by individuals aggressively speaking out on the ho...

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District crisis team available today following tragedy

The city of Corvallis has hired a former department director and a consultant to tackle a study of facilities needs.

After reflecting on his eight-year tenure as a member of the Fremont Public Schools Board of Education in November, Terry Sorensen’s desire to serve continued to burn strong.

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The Corvallis City Council and the Benton County Board of Commissioners heard the final recommendations of an advisory board on homelessness at a virtual work session Thursday.

There is a Bible verse in the the book of Esther that Greg Rathke refers to when he thinks back to his five-year tenure at Trinity Lutheran School.  "I really think about Esther and how I think it was her uncle who said for such a time as this," Rathke said. Rathke arrived at Trinity Lutheran School five years ago as the schools next principal. Prior to his time at the local Fremont school, Rathke had never had an administrative position.  One of his earliest memories at Trinity is attemp...