Linn County Oregon

‘Motor voters’ in action at courthouse

Written November 4th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

There’s a drive-up ballot box on the back side of the Linn County Courthouse in Albany. For a little while there on Monday night, it was a busy place.

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Tags: 2024 election, drive-up ballot box, Election Eve, general election, Linn County Oregon, Linn Couthouse

Remembering Linn’s Steve Druckenmiller

Written September 26th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 42 responses.

The walls of Steve Duckenmiller’s office in the Linn County Courthouse stir up a lot of memories of many years of local politics and national events as well.

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Tags: Linn County Clerk, Linn County Oregon, mementos, Steve Druckenmiller

Linn law enforcers: Trust the people

Written November 19th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 16 responses.

The message was clear before, and it’s even clearer now: Violating the governor’s corona order may or may not kill you — most probably not — but it won’t land you in court or jail, at least not in Linn County.

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Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, District attorney, executive order, governor Brown, Linn County Oregon, Linn County Sheriff

Linn County to join dispensary ban

Written March 21st, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: no responses.

Linn County, too, is preparing to jump on the local-government bandwagon of banning for a year the medical marijuana dispensaries the 2013 Oregon legislature had tried to allow.

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Tags: Linn County Oregon, marijuana dispensaries, medical marijuana