Five years ago I was invited to take part in a tour to visit several Beaver Dam Analogues (BDAs) that were installed as part of a pilot project coordinated by the Upper Nehalem Watershed Council (UNWC). This spring a second tour was organized to see how the project has fared after six winter…
Vernonia’s American Legion Post 119 was established in 1924, and will celebrate their 100th year this summer during their annual BBQ event on the Friday of Jamboree.
One of the baseball diamonds at Spencer Park has two brand new dugouts, thanks to the hard work and financial support of a number of community members and businesses.
Greathouse Performance on Saturday, May 25 at 2 pm – “Life is a Cabaret” is the second and newest of Helena and Mark Greathouse’s two original shows which describe their lives together through flashbacks since 1968, when they first met as foreign students in former West Germany. This new sho…
Janice Cockrell took along of copy of the Voice when she visited Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Hospital, co-founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1751, the first hospital in America – before it was the United States.
Apiary Road remains closed due to the extensive damage caused by the critical failure of a culvert at mile post 11.8 near Schaffer Road. According to Columbia County Public Works Department this prompted emergency construction and repair efforts, including erosion control measures and a comp…
Columbia County hosted an update on the ongoing renovations and improvements to the John Gumm Building on April 18, 2024. The John Gumm Building, located in St. Helens just a few blocks from the Columbia County main office building, will serve as Columbia County’s civic offices and the new h…
Citizen of the Month – Councilor Dale Webb nominated Rauan Ashim for Citizen of the Month for May. Ashim is a foreign exchange student from Kazakhstan through FLEX Leadership program, who worked with local resident John Cieply to help translate letters written in Russian from relatives separ…
New Officer Sworn In – Vernonia’s newest Police Officer, Brad Schultz, took the Oath of Office prior to the start of the meeting. Shultz’s wife, Sara, took part in the ceremony and pinned on his badge, and their four children were in attendance.The Vernonia PD now has four officers on staff …
Citizen of the Month – Mayor Rick Hobart nominated Mike Grant as the Citizen of the Month for his volunteer work doing tree trimming and tree removal around the community, and for donating plants for community projects from his nursery.
In the past sixteen months Vernonia has lost several descendants of some of the earliest settlers in our area: Jim and Fred Bergerson and three Parker brothers: Jeff, Gregg, and Vince, the latter also known as Kenny. In tribute to these men and their great and great-great-grandparents, we of…
BE SURE TO READ THIS COLUMN FOR SENIOR NEWS that is published on the third Thursday of the month unless I’m being run ragged chasing squirrels off my bird feeders (haven’t I written up this irritant before?). I try to get out my computer and type out what’s happening at our Center on Weed. B…
June 6th………. Columbia County Beekeepers Monthly Meeting. Dr. Dewy Caron will give a report about the PNW Honeybee Survey and Linda Zahl will talk about the blackberry nectar flow. All are welcome to attend. Contact Linda Zahl at ColumbiaCountyOregonBeekeepers@gmail.com for the zoom link or y…
To the Editor, Alex Tardiff-Yoder is a candidate for Columbia County Commissioner on the May primary ballot and he should not return as County Commissioner.
There are three public safety ballot measures for Vernonia voters to consider this year. Two will ask voters to continue the current levels of funding and one will ask tax payers to increase funding.
I believe it to be true. I have indicators. I received word a month ago that one of my former players is now a great-grandparent. At that moment, my clock ticked from old to elderly. The ’73 team was a good one, I just didn’t realize that it would be producing outstanding great-grandparents.
