Madras to celebrate HS seniors with special street banners
The Madras High School Class of 2020 will be celebrated by its community and all those passing through with personalized banners hanging from city…
Continue ReadingThe Madras High School Class of 2020 will be celebrated by its community and all those passing through with personalized banners hanging from city…
Continue ReadingThe Madras City Council and the Madras Redevelopment Commission recently voted to set up an Economic Assistance Grant Program to help Madras…
Continue ReadingA fire that apparently began in the area of a bathroom ceiling fan heavily damaged a home in a Madras mobile home park early Friday morning, but…
Continue ReadingA Sandy man has been arrested and a woman is being sought in last week’s theft of a catering trailer from the parking lot of the Madras Black Bear…
Continue ReadingA catering trailer stolen early Tuesday from the parking lot of the Madras Black Bear Diner was recovered Thursday evening at a state park east of…
Continue ReadingMadras police and other agencies are searching for whoever stole a catering truck from Black Bear Diner early Tuesday that last was seen being towed…
Continue ReadingA measure that was going to go to Madras voters in May, proposing a 5% tax on prepared food and beverages to fund road repairs, has been withdrawn…
Continue ReadingOregon’s 2020 census effort to count the state’s population kicked off Thursday on the land owned and cherished by the Confederated Tribes of Warm…
Continue ReadingAn excavation crew punctured a four-inch natural gas line in Madras late Tuesday morning, forcing closure of U.S. Highway 97/26 for about two hours…
Continue ReadingOregon OSHA said Tuesday it has cited Mid-Columbia Lumber Products in Madras for six violations of job safety rules – half of them repeat offenses…
Continue ReadingA Central Oregon firefighter is suing an Albany private firefighting contractor, alleging gender discrimination and claiming the company forced her…
Continue ReadingSen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will hold town halls this month in Wasco, Tillamook, Lincoln and Jefferson counties, including one Feb. 21 in…
Continue ReadingThe Jefferson County Cultural Coalition will provide a boost to the Latino Fest in Madras, an annual event organized by the Latino Community…
Continue ReadingPacific Power and the Madras-JC Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to ensure electric vehicle drivers have another fast, convenient place to power up…
Continue ReadingA 47-year-old truck driver was arrested in Southern California Wednesday on second-degree manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and other…
Continue ReadingOne of three Madras-area men walking to a warming shelter Monday evening was critically injured when he tried to cross Highway 97 and was struck by a…
Continue ReadingMario Mendoza has received national and world recognition for his running, but this race was a little different. Mendoza was racing against the…
Continue ReadingMore than three months after a SWAT team raid in Madras failed to locate a suspect in the shooting of a Madras woman, another raid Monday afternoon…
Continue Reading– A Madras cat was found placed in a plastic tote and abandoned just outside Deer Ridge state prison. No one knows how it got there — not even her…
Continue ReadingTen Oregon communities, including Madras, received an early holiday gift recently when 30kW and 56kW generators were delivered to their county or…
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