SPECIAL: Medically vulnerable individuals asked to fill out online form

March 27, 2020

Who Should Sign Up for the Registry?

Individuals with special medical needs include those who would need assistance with medical or personal care during evacuations and sheltering because of physical or mental impairments. Please sign up for the registery if you or a loved one…

Use life support systems; such as oxygen, a respirator, a ventilator, dialysis, a pacemaker, or are insulin dependent
Have trouble walking or moving around
Are visually impared, hard of hearing or deaf, or have other sensory ailments
Have speech, developmental or mental health disabilities
Use service animals.

Please take the time to fill out the online form: Medically Vulnerable Population Online Form.

NEWS

NOTICE:

June 25, 2025

Due to a scheduling conflict, the commissioners will not be meeting today, June 25th, for a second budget workshop. The meeting has been rescheduled for July 2nd.

Tanglewood Lakes files suit against Board of County Commissioners

By BARBARA PROFFITT | June 25, 2025

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By BARBARA PROFFITT | June 25, 2025

On June 20, following an extensive investigation by the Linn County Sheriff’s Office, the Linn County Attorney’s Office filed a case in district court charging Erik Hellner, a Sugar Valley Lakes resident, with six separate felonies. The case originally stems from... [More]

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BY ADAM HOLT | June 18, 2025

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Joey Ewalt impacting youth wrestling here and abroad

BY ADAM HOLT | June 18, 2025

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Wade recounts WWII experience in South West Pacific theatre

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Cultivating Kindness film crew win Telly Awards

By BARBARA PROFFITT | June 18, 2025

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Local roots bring couple back to familiar territory

By JACKIE TAYLOR | June 4, 2025

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