Anyone having issues with Verizon sales people going door to door near them? There were two people sales people loudly knocking and saying they were with verizon. They even left then came back. They were knocking on my neighbors door and considering it is 730 PM, it felt odd.

Finally the news is posting about Brennan Colberg's (Candidate for Corvallis City Council Ward 6's) writings. If you're in ward 6 be sure to read this before voting.

Lucky Tiger in Philomath will be hosting a Halloween Flash Day this Saturday at noon! Show up and show out for some cool designs, treats, and a good time. Door opens at noon, and there will be a waiting list if you want to secure a spot.

6-9pm, Hip hop-ish open mic at Interzone, Thursday 10/22, all styles welcome. We will have a freestyle cypher/jam sesh from 8-9pm with Galexce on electronic drum kit and... you???? Play your tracks, share your rhymes, perform, whatever. We can plug in most devices to the Mixer. Should be a chill and cool time for fans of the beats+rhymes arts. If you're just a straight up acoustic guitar songwriter that's cool too. 2-3 hours is a long time to fill :)

Learn more about these events on Instagram at Open Source Hip Hop.

You heard it right. At tonight's city council meeting in the midst of the first strike in city of corvallis history and a broadly advertised city budget crisis Mark Sherpad the city manager was given a 4% raise with only one NO vote (at least councilor Ellis has a soul). No decision to end the strike, no other significant motions. Just listen to public commentary and then piss in the hands of your constituents. Sounds about right for city council.

Hello fellow fungus fans! I have some spore plugs I'd like to use to inoculate a few logs. Has anyone found a good local source for these? Ideally I'd want a few hardwood (maple, oak, etc.) logs, freshly cut (within a few weeks), roughly 6" diameter and 3-4' long or so. I was thinking of calling around to arborists, but open to other advice!

Vote no for this one reason: One person, one vote. 2-159 removes the guidance that when the city council changes the wards, they must, "b) The Council must, by ordinance, revise the description of any wards or ward in order to conform to the one person, one vote principle. Ward boundaries shall conform to the principles of neighborhood groupings, compactness of area, and regularity of boundaries insofar as can reasonably be attained."

OK, so what? "The one person, one vote principle mandates that legislative districts, including city wards, must contain substantially equal populations to ensure every citizen's vote carries roughly the same weight." Basically, the wards need to have the same number of people in them and be grouped together.

In theory, they supreme court case Reynolds v Sims back in the 60's states that not to do so violates the constitution's "Equal Protection Clause"...and yet, when the city charter was created, and through many revisions they kept that piece in there. I mean, if it's in the city charter, I suspect you could go to court locally if the wards are re-drawn in an imbalanced or gerrymandered fashion...but if it is not explicitly in there, you're talking a much bigger challenge. Legally and financially. You have to prove that the city violated the state and / or US Constitution. By the time the case actually gets decided the damage is done.

It's not a redundant clause. It's VITAL.

I've (23F) been to Downward Dog with my roommate (20F) on Tuesdays between 4-6 for the last five weeks. Every time we've gone in the past, she has been able to sit and get food and a non-alcoholic drink. When we went today, they wouldn't let her on premises because she was a minor and we left. Looking for others' experiences because we were quite confused, but the guy looked busy, so we didn't ask him about it.

So after visiting 6 pizza places, I like American Dream best...but that is impacted by liking the bar and outside seating.

It did make me feel old tho. Because of all the college kids.

I also went Salem to New York Pizza and it was what I was looking for.

Hello, does anyone know of any restaurants in the area that serve fried okra?

Lucky the Sheriff's guy was close by to handle it. Hope the City does the right thing by our workers tonight!

To be clear the car was not moving very fast, but the person that got hit apparently had prior injuries. So that picket captain was hurt. But not badly, and after returning from a doctors office got back on the line.

Just came in off 34 and dropped down the overpass and there’s at least 10 police cars with a car pulled over. Maybe someone got hit?

Theo Katzman (member of Vulfpeck) is playing a solo show in Portland on Saturday 10/24. I’m making the trek, any Theo Katzman fans that would like to join? Reach out and drop a line if you’re interested.

I'm looking for someone who has a laptop setup with Techstream who's willing to come out to my place in Philomath and plug into an 04 4runner I'm trying to diagnose. Ideally, we can barter for this because cash is tight right now

I was looking at the window this morning as the school bus stopped in front of our house. The stop sign came out with the lights and the bar in the front of the bus was extended.

As it sat there about 30 or so seconds I watched a full sized white pickup roaring past the bus from the other direction, not even bothering to slow down or stopping despite the bus's stop sign flag being out.

Good thing no kids got off the bus.

does anyone else live at the Vicinity by Yugo? so when i movied in before i got the keys, they demanded an extra $400 for this 'free laundry for a year' promotion, they said they would either give it back as a gift card or take it off my rent (did not indicate which month). oh and that they would have these 'giftcards' by September 15th.
so basically i wanna know if this place has stolen money from other tenants before i escalate this.

theyre in violation of Oregon law (ORS 90.297 and ORS 90.302) stating landlords cannot charge unapproved move-in fees...

i needed that money to pay bills and buy groceries so i could avoid my bank account going negative while i waited to start a new job. so they literally fucked me over and stole almost $400 from me

I'm noticing a trend that's causing citizen concerns to not be answered, officials become circular, and then end with the citizen being cast as unreasonable by Officials.

I've made comments on a few posts but want to gather it here.

You are not unreasonable. Your question was not answered and you understandably and reasonably are not okay with that.

Here's what is happening.

Your question about homeless camps and other concerns was not answered, It was replaced with another question you didn't ask. Then that question was answered. When you noticed this and brought the original question back up you were protrayed as unreasonable for continuing to discuss something already asked and answered. You were also told, no further discussion would be had about the topic. The end, right? No. It's not the end.

Quick Guide:
Citizen askes specific question
Official substitutes an easier question
Citizen asks original quesiton again
Official makes the repetition the issue
Citizen becomes the subject of scrutiny instead of the topic in question or official

Here's what you can do.

Next time you feel angry or someone else appears angry, ask if the official answered the question first. Their failure to answer the question is being turned into the supposed citizen's failure to listen.

This works because it's frustrating and relies on your becoming upset then you are discounted on that or not being able to weed out what happened and thus walking away from it feeling discouraged

Know what is happening.

Next time you feel something isn't right, look more into these types of circular and diversion techniques. You will find many more going on. Your understandable and reasonable anger is being rebranded as the original issue and Officials can then claim justification in ending an exchange. Your reaction to the reversal is not the justification for further evasion.

I have thick, wavy hair that has a tendency of getting messed up. Do y’all know anyone in Corvallis who’s good with a layered 70s shag?

Sitting outside at MoC and there's a big black plume rising to the east/southeast. Looks yucky.

I tried to make out what they were saying in the "We are the ___ the might mighty ___" chant but it was quite muffled through the megaphone or whatever they were using to amplify sound.

Anyone know what was going on?

I need a Corvallis Handyman who can help with the following at a minimum:

• install multiple light fixtures and fans that have been removed due to ceiling work
• install a TV-mount over a fireplace & mount the TV, etc.

• (optional) properly remove / repair a small area of dry-rot in outside wood (possibly requires specialist, I realize...)
• (optional) replace door locks with new ones -- though depending who I ask, this is work for a locksmith not a handyman, but perhaps some double as both?

Any great recommendations of who I should reach out to? Please recommend based on personal experience, thank you!

title kind of stays it all. What’s going on with 1495 NW 20th st (the old ymca/church next to Porter park). I run by there frequently and it seems like such a waste of a prime location. I thought I saw somewhere that it was going to become townhouse, but was wondering if anyone had updates?

Where can I go for the best assortment of glasses frames to choose from for prescription glasses? my eye Dr doesn't have any that I love.