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Is Betsy Johnson’s independent candidacy in the governor’s race causing a lot of tension and disruption in the Oregon Republican Party this year?

Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form. April 12, 2021 Awakening I have no memory of my birthplace of Tallinn, Estonia. I was two years old when Red Army busted through the Leningrad Blockade and marched in. The Russians were hardly liberators. They were almost worse than the Nazis. They’d culled the population of Estonia to a million people, and who knows what fate my family would have met had we not fled on one of the last boats out. My earliest memory is the raw, dank smell of the earth. I was huddled in the dark next to my mother in a root cellar in the west of Germany, su...

Clatskanie Mountain fire tower fully restored February 20 2021 The nearly 70-year-old fire tower will be ready for tours soon at the Hopkins Demonstration Forest. It has taken more than 10 years to relocate the Clatskanie Mountain fire lookout tower to its new home at the Hopkins Demonstration Forest in Beavercreek. But now, the tower is now ready for education programs at the forest and will be a unique place for children and adults to learn about the history of lookouts and their role in wildland fire control throughout the Pacific Northwest. The Clatskanie Mountain fire loo...

Canby, Molalla projects receive county grants Amplify Wait Park, Historic Molalla Log House both recipients of Clackamas County Cultural Coalition grants. The Clackamas County Cultural Coalition awarded $39,000 in grants to 17 arts and culture organizations through its Project Grant program, including some projects in Canby and Molalla. In all, $58,398 was requested by county grant applicants. The grant program's purpose is to locally distribute private funds contributed to the Oregon Cultural Trust in support of goals and funding priorities outlined in the Clackamas County Plan for...