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Warriors senior Carrson Hirte won the 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke at Saturday’s Blanchet Catholic Invitational in Salem. (File photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
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Philomath’s Hirte wins 2 events at Blanchet swim meet

Warriors senior takes 1st by considerable margins in both the 100 freestyle and 100 backstroke in invitational at Salem pool

Philomath High senior Carrson Hirte took first place in two events Saturday at the Blanchet Catholic Invitational and both the Warrior boys and girls placed fifth in the team standings in the program’s final meet before districts. Hirte sprinted to an easy victory in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 52.76 seconds — a margin of 2.72 seconds over the runner-up. In the 100-yard backstroke, Hirte was even more unchallenged with a victory of 5.75 seconds over the second-place…

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Warriors freshman Riley Barrett was one of three PHS wrestlers to win their weight division at Saturdays tournament at West Albany. (File photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
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Philomath wrestlers 3rd at West Albany tournament

Ben Hernandez, Riley Barrett, David Griffith all claim championship titles in their respective weight divisions at Saturday’s Tod Surmon Mid-Valley Classic

Philomath High School senior Ben Hernandez, freshman Riley Barrett and senior David Griffith emerged unscathed from Saturday’s Tod Surmon Mid-Valley Classic on Saturday at West Albany. The weekend event provided local wrestlers with a tournament-style format sandwiched in between a pair of District 2 double dual dates — two days…

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Warriors assistant boys basketball coach Trey Ecker watches Friday night’s Sweet Home-Philomath game. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
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Inside Philomath: High school Assistant Coach Trey Ecker

A former standout football and basketball player with the Warriors, the 25-year-old continues his love affair with athletics primarily through coaching

A graduate with Philomath High School’s Class of 2015, Trey Ecker enjoyed competing in athletics with the Warriors and proved to be a standout in football and basketball. He went on to play collegiately at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California, and Linn-Benton Community College in Albany. Nowadays, the…

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by Brad Fuqua, Philomath News
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By Kevin Ahern
Smelly
That battery’s odor
I must presume
Is just a kind of
D-cell fume

Home on the Range
Wandering tribes
Knew no walls
We are talking
Meanderthals
— Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023
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Philomath in Photos

VIEW PHILOMATH IN PHOTOS GALLERIES FROM PAST MONTHS
SATURDAY, JAN. 28, 2023: Birthday wishes from Frosty and the crew on Main Street. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
FRIDAY, JAN. 27, 2023: Donuts sign on Main Street: “Don’t fence me in.” (Photo by Eric Niemann)
THURSDAY, JAN. 26, 2023: Sunlight glints into a stand of trees on the west side of town. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 25, 2023: Dave Dunham announces the starting lineups at a PHS basketball game. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
TUESDAY, JAN. 24, 2023: A contractor for Consumers Power trims trees back from power lines from a 70-foot lift along Highway 34. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
SUNDAY, JAN. 22, 2023: Traffic passes by the cattails sprouting up from Newton Creek. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
SATURDAY, JAN. 21, 2023: A red winterberry bush brightens the corner of Neabeack Hill Drive and Woodbine Place. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
FRIDAY, JAN. 20, 2023: The Gary Cox Memorial Fountain is located outside the Philomath Youth Activities Club. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 2023: The streetscapes project is well underway on Main Street in Philomath. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18, 2023: A new exhibit, “Water Works,” is now on display at Philomath Museum. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
TUESDAY, JAN. 17, 2023: Rotarian Oscar Gutbrod raises a flag on Main Street to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
SUNDAY, JAN. 15, 2023: A four-point buck taking a rest off Ninth Street. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
SATURDAY, JAN. 14, 2023: Philomath High’s latest state title banners hanging in the gym. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
FRIDAY, JAN. 13, 2023: Newton Creek runs over the road at Philomath City Park. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11, 2023: Peter Finn sings during the Jan. 10 Community Meal at College United Methodist Church. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
TUESDAY, JAN. 10, 2023: The Yew Wood Corral at the Philomath Frolic & Rodeo grounds. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
MONDAY, JAN. 9, 2023: A flock of geese take to the air from a field along 19th Street. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
SATURDAY, JAN. 7, 2023: A unique piece of yard art on 32nd Place off Southwood Drive as a polar bear catches a fish. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
FRIDAY, JAN. 6, 2023: Sheep grazing off Bellfountain Road. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
THURSDAY, JAN. 5, 2023: Corpac smooths out a lot leased from the city to create an equipment staging yard for the streetscapes project. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 2023: Bruce the Moose left the Benton County Historical Society’s Philomath storage facility and is now on display at the Corvallis Museum. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
TUESDAY, JAN. 3, 2023: Signs of civic organizations welcome people to town. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
MONDAY, JAN. 2, 2023: Bald eagles off Bellfountain Road. (Photo by Eric Niemann)
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