Scott Swanson
Linn County Parks and Recreation Department, for the first time in its history, is expected to be financially self-sufficient this year, even as it takes on the management of six U.S. Forest Service campgrounds along the South Santiam River.
“Over the years we’ve been working towards being, as we are now, what appears to be 100 percent self-supporting,” said Parks and Recreation Director Brian Carroll, who has been with the county since 1997.…