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Light pollution

Light pollution is excessive, inappropriate, intrusive artificial light. Different types of light pollution have been identified, including: Glare (think car headlights); skyglow – the result all the light that escapes upward, causing the night sky to appear light; light trespass…

Public Safety Briefs

Death investigation On Sunday just after 8 a.m. the Lane County Sheriff’s Office received information that a raft had overturned in the McKenzie River near Paradise Campground, just upriver from McKenzie Bridge. While enroute, deputies learned that one of the…

Area Briefs

Transit service to Oakridge is back On Monday, the U.S. Forest Service shifted the Cedar Creek Fire designation from a Level 3 (Go Now) evacuation order to a Level 2 (Be Set) for Oakridge and Westfir, Lane Transit District’s (LTD)…

Patricia Lorraine Woodsworth Thiele

1964 – Aug. 28, 2022 Patricia Lorraine Wadsworth Thiele passed away Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, at Riverbend Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Ore., from surgical complications. Patricia was preceded in death by her parents, Roy and Dorothy Wadsworth, as well as…

Francis Earl Roberts

Nov. 2, 1928 – Aug. 30, 2022 Frank passed away peacefully in his sleep on Aug. 30, 2022. Frank was born Nov. 2, 1928. He completed a four-year tour in the Air Force before entering college. After college, he began…

Cindy Kathleen Smith

Deceased: Aug. 30, 2022 Cindy Kathleen Smith of Springfield, Ore. passed away surrounded in love by her husband and two daughters at Sacred Heart Riverbend Hospital on Aug. 30, 2022 after a five-year battle with thyroid problems. She was 69…

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