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Foster Dam Road

closure this week

The road over Foster Dam is closed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday, Jan. 29 to allow climbing inspections of the spillway gates. 

For more information, call (541) 968-9915.

OSU series focus is disaster recovery

The annual Starker Lecture Series at Oregon State University will this year focus on resilience in the face of disasters and other disturbances and how people across the forest landscape work to overcome them and learn from them.

The series examines how communities, industries and organizations have responded to recent and previous disru...