Month: July 2022

A $15 million state grant to St. Vincent de Paul will help establish a factory in the Eugene area to build manufactured homes. HOPE Community Corporation (the acronym stands for Housing Options Production Enterprise) will build prefabricated homes in a factory formerly used to build heavy-duty logging implements in Eugene. [courtesy photo] More affordable homes could be unveiled next year once a new state-subsidized pre-fab factory starts operating. “It will provide some housing for survivors of the 2020 wildfires in our area and across the state,” said Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, who pushed the legislation through the Legislature. A $15…

Police were called to Esk Road today. Police say a man has been rushed to hospital this afternoon following reports of a disturbance in Inverness. Officers were called just before 1.30pm to Esk Road in the Hilton area. A police spokesman confirmed tonight that a 31-year-old man was taken by ambulance to Raigmore Hospital. His condition is not known A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: “Officers were called to a report of a disturbance on Esk Road in the Hilton area of ​​Inverness at around 1.25pm ​​on Thursday 28 July. “A 31-year-old man was taken by ambulance to Raigmore Hospital. Want…

Medford opens the home final at 7:05 pm Thursday against TKB Baseball The Medford Rogues pitching staff continued its strong surge to the finish line Wednesday night, with David Grewe turning in one of his best performances of the summer to lead the way to an 8-2 victory over the visiting Redding Colt 45 at Harry & David Field. . Grewe, a sophomore at Oregon State, pitched five shutout innings with just one hit allowed. The 6-foot-2 righty struck out five and walked two in 72 pitches. To close things out, Jacob Liberta allowed one hit with four strikeouts in…

Officials with the Calumet County Sheriff’s Office have released the names of the people involved in a car crash on Monday, July 25 along with news that the critically injured passenger later died from his injuries . Steven Robinson, 48, of New Holstein, died Wednesday, July 27, at the hospital, according to Lt. Eric Voland. The driver of the vehicle was Amanda Hall, 33, of Sheboygan, and the second passenger was Rory Hunn, 32, of Kiel. Hunn was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and released. The Calumet County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an overturned vehicle…

They were a little late on the “stolen election” bandwagon, but now Jackson County Republican Party officials are denying that President Joe Biden was legitimately elected, despite the lack of any credible evidence to support that view. A resolution first approved by the party’s executive committee and confirmed four days later by a unanimous vote of the county’s central committee stated, among other things, that some secretaries of state improperly conducted the 2020 election, that the “2,000 mules” video thoroughly debunked “. irrefutably demonstrates” voter fraud involving mailboxes, and that “substantial voter fraud” occurred in key cities. It goes without…

At least three people have died as a result of widespread flooding in eastern Kentucky — two in Perry County and one in Knott County, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday afternoon. “I think it’s going to end up being one of the biggest and deadliest floods we’ve had in Kentucky in at least a long time,” Beshear said. “Unfortunately, I expect double-digit deaths in this flood.” [Original story, published at 12:29 p.m. ET] Eastern Kentucky is experiencing “one of the worst and most devastating flooding events” in the commonwealth’s history Thursday after heavy overnight rains caused untold damage and forced…