Halsey News

John M. Walker of Redmond, died on Thursday, November 5, 2009, at the age of 62 years.

Former Sweet Home schools Supt. Harold Dishaw speaks on the screen from a DVD that Jim Childers, left, converted off 20-year-old video tapes that Childers preserved by converting them to digital form.

Three couples were honored this month for their work as volunteers at Oregon state parks last year.

The Supreme Court of B.C. in Vancouver will determine the fate of Nanaimo's Harmac pulp mill this morning.

Harrisburg firefighters resonded to a barn fire at Powerline and Cartney Roads at about 7:00 PM tonight.

HALSEY, Ore. - Bags of grass seed were strewn about, along with smashed trailer parts, but no one was injured Tuesday morning when a freight train hit a tractor-trailer rig that got stuck on railroad tracks that it was crossing illegally.

A truck driver drove past a sign prohibiting trucks from using a railroad crossing, causing the trailer to become high-centered before being splintered by a southbound freight train.

A freight train hit a semi trailer full of grass seed, demolishing the trailer and blocking traffic at the scene.

A tractor-trailer carrying grass seed was destroyed in Linn County this morning when it was hit by a freight train, according to the sheriff's office.

A grass seed field fire sends up hazardous plumes of smoke in August 2005 near Halsey in Oregon's Linn County.

It's lambing season on Pynch Farms in Halsey. Joel Pynch is shipping more than a hundred lambs to their final destination in Colorado.

OSU Extension Service crop scientist Richard Affeldt instructs a group of students on how to check a tractor's oil, gas, hydraulic fluid and coolant levels Tuesday at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center.