Update: burn victim’s name released

The man who was burned in this morning’s fire at the IXL Propane, Inc., facility was IXL owner Bob Cox. As of press time, he was in stable condition in the burn unit of Legacy Emanuel Hospital.

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Update: fire at propane facility

Although initially reported as an explosion, this morning’s incident at the IXL Propane, Inc. facililty was actually a “fire with potential for an explosion,” according to Molalla Fire Department spokesperson Denise Everhart.
The fire started when an IXL worker was working on a truck in the shop, which is next door to an office rented by a [...]

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Explosion at propane facility

An explosion at the IXL Propane, Inc., facility on Industrial Way this morning resulted in one patient being transported with burn injuries.
According to Molalla Police Department spokesperson Scott Douglas, the explosion and subsequent fire occurred in a building at the propane complex while a truck loaded with propane was inside. The cause of the explosion [...]

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Hearing set over in Virginia Winter probation violation case

Virginia Winter, the Molalla woman convicted last November on nine counts of animal neglect, was scheduled for a probation violation hearing today, after Clackasmas County Sheriff’s Office deputies found horses living on her property again in September.
Winter said she did not violate a court order banning her from having animals in her possession. The horses on her [...]

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Snowball’s former owners sue ODFW

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
The family of Jim Filipetti and Francesca Mantei is now suing the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for $125,000 or more, for taking away a pair of deer that they raised on their property.
Snowball, a small, piebald-colored and deformed black tail deer and her healthy yearling son, Bucky, were both removed from [...]

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Update: Names released in Molalla murder-suicide

Family notifications having been completed, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office today identified the married couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide late Friday night as Kimberly Ann Hayes, 29, and Gary William Hayes, Jr., 30.

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Murder-suicide reported in Molalla

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer 
Just after midnight this morning, members of the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office patrol responded to a report of a murder-suicide in Molalla.
CCSO investigators responded to the residence located on South Highway 213 just south of Barnards Road after a witness called 9-1-1. It was discovered that the husband and wife, ages 30 and [...]

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Snowball the deer remains in limbo

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer 
While a judge’s ruling today means that Snowball, the doe formerly kept by a Molalla family, will remain in the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s custody for at least several more months; Jim Filipetti and his family are not giving up yet.

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Tree trimmer dies on the job near Molalla

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer 
A 73-year-old tree topper died of an apparent heart attack while on the job at a remote forest location near Molalla yesterday.
According to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office report, Ronald Feasel of Woodburn and his son Tony Feasel, 48, of Salem, were working as tree trimmers under contract with the Bureau of Land Management [...]

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A $40,000 deer

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer 
At a meeting of the Oregon House of Representatives Interim Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources today, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife presented its spending to date on the case of Snowball, the blacktail deer whose confiscation from a Molalla family has led to a lawsuit and an appeal that could [...]

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High winds hit Molalla

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
An early-morning wind storm cut off power to thousands of Molalla-area homes this morning.
As of 9:30 a.m. about 3,000 Portland General Electric customers in and around Molalla were without electricity, including the Molalla Pioneer office, down from 4,000 earlier in the morning. By mid-afternoon, about 1,500 remained in the dark.

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Molalla to honor veterans with myriad activities

Molalla and Colton schools are celebrating Veterans Day with three separate assemblies this year.
On Thursday at 8:30 a.m., Colton High School is holding its Veterans Day assembly, in the high school gym, featuring speaker Cal Graham, a former World War II prisoner-of-war.

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