Molalla High students ‘share the love’

For the first time, two recipients chosen for high school fundraiser 
Since doctors discovered cancer in the bones of her spine in August of 2007, 5-year-old Faith Marr has been through more than most people 10 times her age.
Faith has the only documented case of osteosarcoma, or malignant bone cancer, affecting the vertebrae on a child [...]

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Cleaning up for spring

Spring cleaning can be a rejuvenating experience, and so can redesigning a newspaper. Spring just seems to be the best time to make changes.
There are some exciting improvements in the works at the Molalla Pioneer in the coming weeks. For about a month you’ll see small changes appearing throughout the paper — better organized pages, [...]

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Update: Names released from fatal crash in Marquam

The 20-year-old woman who died in this morning’s crash on Highway 213 was Rocio Fregoso Navarro of Molalla, who was driving a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt northbound over the Marquam Creek Bridge when she lost control and slid broadside into the northbound lane.
Navarro’s car was struck by a 2004 GMC van driven by Michael Baker, 48, [...]

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Molalla man dies in crash on 213

 
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
A Molalla man died in a single-vehicle crash on Highway 213 this morning, when his vehicle veered off the highway near Spangler Road, south of Oregon City.
Police are on scene performing crash reconstruction and have not released the man’s name as of press time.
The vehicle, a 1997 Chevrolet Blazer, went off the [...]

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Young man’s body recovered from Gribble Creek

 
By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer 
The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office recovered the body of a 20-year-old man from Gribble Creek this afternoon, after the young man was discovered by his father.
Deputies believe the young man, whose name had not been released as of press time, had run from the police after being pulled over in a stolen [...]

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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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State, schools discuss Native American mascot issue

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
School superintendents and principals from 13 school districts – including Molalla – that use sports team names like the Indians, the Warriors and the Braves, sat down around a table with members of the Oregon Department of Education’s Native American Mascot Advisory Committee on Tuesday.
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Trees fall, damage house in Mulino

High winds toppled three trees on Buckner Creek Road in Mulino today, knocking down power lines and crashing onto the roof of one house.

According to neighbors, the top of one Douglas fir tree broke off and fell, blocking the road and knocking power lines down, at about noon. Two more 60-year-old trees fell around [...]

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Driver sentenced in crash that killed her father

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
Angelin Rose January, 21, of Molalla was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Monday, after pleading guilty to charges that she caused the crash that killed her father last April while driving high on methamphetamine.
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Molalla man missing, feared lost at sea off Alaskan coast

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
A Molalla man was lost at sea during a fishing expedition off the Alaska coast on Monday.
For the last 20 years, according to family members, 36-year-old Steve Reutov has spent each summer on commercial fishing expeditions in Alaska, usually from May through the end September. During the winter months, he returned to [...]

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State works out a deal with Molalla health center owner

By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer

Greenhouse Health and Wellness Center owner Ralph D. Mitchell won’t be calling himself “Doctor Dan” any more, under the terms of an agreement that the clinic owner and the Oregon Department of Justice signed on Wednesday.
The Molalla clinic owner, who does not hold any medical license or academic degree recognized by the [...]

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Youth dies after collapsing on basketball court

By Abby SewellMolalla PioneerLogan Hines, a 15-year-old Molalla High School sophomore, died Sunday evening after collapsing during a friendly basketball game.
At about 5:30, he told a friend he was feeling dizzy. Then his knees gave out and he slumped to the ground.
He was unconscious and had no pulse when the police and paramedics arrived.; and [...]

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Fire on Weyerhauser land threatens forest, homes

By Abby Sewell

Molalla Pioneer

Firefighters are battling a six-acre blaze on steep terrain on Weyerhauser property near the Glen Avon Bridge.

The fire started around noon, near a private Weyerhauser road on the west side of the Glen Avon Bridge over the Molalla River.

Although the cause of the first spark is unknown, the fire spread quickly [...]

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Deportation hearing leaves Molalla union organizer in a bind

By Abby SewellMolalla Pioneer
Nearly eleven months after pleading guilty to passport fraud, the status of Mexican-born former union organizer Jose Alfredo Cobián remains in limbo.
At a hearing in Portland this morning, immigration judge Michael Bennett ruled that Cobián, who immigrated to the United States from Mexico illegally in 1989 and has lived under the identity [...]

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Yesterday’s RV fire in Mulino may have been arson

An arson investigation is underway after a fire consumed an RV and another vehicle on Mulino Road on Monday afternoon.
Calls from both the property residents and passersby began coming in at 1:40 p.m., reporting that the RV was engulfed with flames as high as 20 feet.
Molalla and Colton Fire Departments arrived on scene, at 13800 [...]

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