Starr Ridge News Today

JOHN DAY — A driver going up the snow-blasted switchbacks of Canyon Mountain over Starr Ridge toward Seneca last week gave the thumbs up to a snowplow driver coming down the mountain. The John Day ODOT crew and their counterparts throughout Oregon this past week were busy making their runs up and down state highways and mountain passes, laying down sand and de-icer on the roadway and cutting a path to keep people safe on their travels. Throughout Grant County, the heavy winter maintenance ...

BAKER CITY — Mike Widman is used to dealing with snowdrifts deep enough to bury a pickup as the new year begins, but mostly what he’s been finding at the

The Oregon State Police and Grant County Sheriff’s Office responded Wednesday morning to a single-vehicle crash involving 7 people on Highway 395, milepost 15, at Star Ridge Summit between Seneca and Canyon City. The group of people in the vehicle included an infant, but there were no significant injuries, said Grant County Sheriff Todd McKinley. Law enforcement responded to the incident around 5:51 a.m. and found the vehicle down an embankment, 60 feet off the road, said OSP Trooper Cody ...

BAKER CITY — Mike Widman is used to dealing with snowdrifts deep enough to bury a pickup as the new year begins, but mostly what he’s been finding at the

The Oregon State Police and Grant County Sheriff’s Office responded Wednesday morning to a single-vehicle crash involving 7 people on Highway 395, milepost 15, at Star Ridge Summit between Seneca and Canyon City. The group of people in the vehicle included an infant, but there were no significant injuries, said Grant County Sheriff Todd McKinley. Law enforcement responded to the incident around 5:51 a.m. and found the vehicle down an embankment, 60 feet off the road, said OSP Trooper Cody ...

John was born in Gouverneur, NY and grew up in Antwerp and the environs of Northern New York.

A pickup truck ran into a snowplow on a snowy highway south of John Day on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 4, but both drivers walked away from the crash.