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Chicks sip water at Hiday Poultry Farms in Brownville, Oregon on March 10, 2023. The operation is the biggest in the state. (Photo by Grant Stringer/Oregon Capital Chronicle)

Chicken industry officials host tour of mega chicken facility as part of a lobbying effort

The visit coincides with a push by opponents for a moratorium on mega animal operations

BROWNSVILLE — Donning plastic booties and coveralls, about 30 state lawmakers, agency officials and industry executives gathered in a control room on Randy Hiday’s chicken farm in Linn County. The room, equipped with temperature and other monitors, looked into a 600-foot-long steel barn housing about 48,000 fuzzy chicks. Hiday, who runs the largest broiler chicken operation in Oregon, raises more than 4 million chickens a year here for Foster Farms. A Capital Chronicle reporter later stepped inside a barn, where…

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Oregon Governor Tina Kotek speaks to a group of 23 students during a visit Thursday to Philomath High School. (Photo provided by Mark Henderson/Philomath High School)

Oregon’s governor talks CTE with Philomath students

Kotek spent time on the local campus Thursday morning to learn more about the high school’s exemplary program

Less than 11 weeks into her administration, Governor Tina Kotek paid a visit Thursday morning to Philomath High School to learn more about the small school’s exemplary career and technical education program. The governor recently published a list of education-related priorities, including to “accelerate career and technical education program growth…

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Philomath lost a store and its post office in an 1898 fire. (Photo by Canva)

From the Past: Philomath store, post office lost to fire in March 1898

Plus, other miscellaneous Philomath news and sports items from 150, 125, 100, 75 and 50 years ago

Fire destroys Philomath store and post office. That news along with items from around Oregon in 1873, Philomath College in 1898, high school officers in 1923, a late man’s estate in 1948 and teacher contract negotiations in 1973 in this week’s From the Past.

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By Kevin Ahern
Quiet Earp
A silent cowboy movie’s out
It’s all that I could want
They titled it quite cleverly
“All’s Quiet on the Western Front”

Smiley
The ASPCA knows well
A story it retells
It’s about a dentist who fights
Cruelty to enamels
Friday, March 24, 2023
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