Joseph News

A Native American wedding in Oregon last weekend gave me new perspectives on giving.

The raft shivered, then nosed down a wall of white water, kicking its haunches high in the air like a rodeo bull.

Hundreds of rail cars called ''crossbeams,'' designed for hauling lumber, are parked on the tracks of a northeastern Oregon shortline railroad between Joseph and the Eagle Cap Wilderness trailhead at Hurricane Creek.

NOTICE OF BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETING A public meeting of the Budget Committee of the Union County Vector Control District, Union County, State of Oregon, to discuss the budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010 will be held in the Joseph Annex Mini-Conference Room, 1106 K Avenue, La Grande.

A new solar products manufacturer based in Enterprise has opened a plant in La Grande.

Ona Beach B&B and Bunkhouse is now a purveyor of fine wines - on a very limited, rather exclusive basis.

Tucked away in the Northeast corner of Oregon is picturesque Wallowa Valley. Overflowing with 53 lakes and 3,100 streams, it's no surprise that Wallowa County's Indian name is "Land of the Winding Waters." And the surrounding snow-capped Wallowa Mountains make it equally easy to see why it's also dubbed the "Little Switzerland of America." But no ...

INDEPENDENCE - Central School District announced that it will close for the week of May 4-8 due to precautionary measures involving the H1N1 virus.

ScienceWorks will host Engineering Challenge from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at 1500 E. Main St., Ashland.

Human remains found earlier this month in southern Oregon have been identified as those of a teenage girl who disappeared from a home while baby-sitting more than a decade ago.

Wallowa Lake in northest Oregon is the site of a new state park, Iwetemlaykin State Heritage Site.

One skier died and two others were rescued after all three were caught in an avalanche in the Wallowa mountains in Eastern Oregon.

The Nez Perce were forced from their northeastern Oregon homeland by a fraudulent treaty and a bloody horseback war more than 130 years ago, but their passion for Wallowa County remains.

Crews recently broke ground at the site for Community Bank. It will be located near Tomato Brothers on Bridge Street and is expected to be completed by fall or early winter.

Beyond these sun-bleached lodgepole tipi poles on the west side of Joseph Canyon are more than 15,000 acres owned by the Nez Perce Tribe.

The Sumerian clay tablet from 2043 B.C. looks like a piece of art with a mysterious message chiseled in cuneiform letters.

A lithograph in Janice Marschner's 'Oregon 1859: A Snapshot in Time' shows Portland's waterfront a year before Oregon became a state in 1859.

Byron, Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination , 53-58: Dull as the pictures, which adorn their halls, They think all learning fix'd within their walls: In manners rude, in foolish forms precise, All modern ...

Maybe because Christmas and the New Year are traditional times for celebrating a sense of community, it's also a good time to acknowledge some of the rough patches in the rural Shangri-La where I live: the ...

Central Oregon's cable TV subscribers may need to erect rabbit ear antennas after Jan.