Apparently some dude named “Coastal Farm & Ranch” is donating a fat buck to the ABC House for every baby chicken they sell in Albany. What is the ABC House? Well, you’d know if I[…]

Thursday, April 6 Reading and Book Signing by Poets Gary Lark and Stacie Smith. Grass Roots Books & Music, 227 SW Second St., Corvallis. 7 p.m. Gary Lark reads from River of Solace, a series[…]

Do you have a passion, skill, or specific knowledge you are craving to share with the public? Are you generally curious and interested in the expertise of others? On Saturday, April 8, the OSU Open[…]

Rise up – raise a glass for science. April’s Science Pub is all about the stuff that makes baked goods bubble. Join speaker Sue Queisser, food scientist, engineer, and bakery owner, on Monday, April 10[…]

Word on the street is that certain lodging providers are cutting the city out of its dues. Some of our glorious hotel cartel are allegedly getting a little upset at private renters, like those offering[…]

Living in a time of marches, protests and increasing civil disobedience, local attorney Lorena Reynolds seeks for budding new activists to know their rights, as they just may be encountering some law enforcement out there[…]

Oregon State is set to assume stewardship of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean National Collection of Rock and Sediment Cores, providing researchers with unique opportunities to study millions of years of Earth’s climate and oceanic[…]

Portland Garden Opens New Thingy Did you know that Portland has one hell of a beautiful Japanese garden? I did, because I know everything. No seriously, ask me something. Just make sure to give me[…]

The Oregon Senate passed SB 754 on March 23 by a bipartisan vote of 19-8. If the bill passes the House and is signed by Governor Kate Brown, the minimum age for buying tobacco products[…]

Every so often, an organization comes along whose only goal is to brighten someone’s day in the simplest way possible. Benton County Rocks is one of those groups. Frontwoman Andriea Oshel explains they’re a group[…]

OSU Baseball seems to have won its 18,000th consecutive game, beating up some British dude named Stanford. No word yet as to whether Stanford will be pressing charges. It’s unlikely, because he’s a gentleman. Many[…]

Thursday, March 30 Pollinators in Managed Forest Landscapes. CH2MHill Alumni Center, 725 SW 26th St., Corvallis. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Free. Organized by faculty in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, this[…]

The Albany brewing community will grow by one this month. The Salem-based Vagabond Brewing is expanding their own location and adding what they are calling an outpost. St. Patrick’s Day held their soft opening, but[…]

On Saturday, April 1, Mid-Valley Pro Wrestling (MPW) will be holding its next wrestling event, a two-hour series of matches billed as Fool’s Gold. MPW started in January of 2016, and has held bi-monthly shows[…]

Education everywhere is increasingly taking place electronically — and why not, when the collective knowledge of an intercommunicating planet can be carried in a pocket? Moving classrooms online might just be the most dynamic innovation[…]

Another Corvallis controversy has been a-brewing along OSU’s Campus Way. The scenic, semi-public access road provides both fresh air-related activities as well as the ingress of some people’s livelihoods…and surprisingly the two parties are not[…]

Fact: words matter. And if you’re interested in some observational evidence, as well as some entertainment, just sit at a few select corners in town and watch folks who are new to the area attempt[…]

Diverse Southern Oregon forests have historically been dynamic landscapes shaped and maintained by fire. Large old trees and all sorts of forest fauna that depend on these landscapes are often the focus of restoration efforts[…]

Love Portland’s Traffic? Well, it’s about to get a lot better! And by that I mean worse: no fewer than three bridges are about to get a facelift via repairs this year. Oh yes… the[…]

As of April 1, Oregon will be offering a tantalizing 10 cents for recycled bottles. Before you get too excited, realize that this is more of a punishment than a reward. Though the state will[…]