COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL March 2, 2016
CITY BEAT
Cottage Grove Retrospective
A look back at a Sentinel story from 70 years ago
March 7, 1946
Basketball team fi nishes up season, squad shows well on home fl oor
The Lions ended their 24-
game basketball season with 11
wins against 13 losses. The team
this year was classed strictly as
a home fl oor team as nine of
their wins were at home against
four losses.
The Lions placed fi fth in the
league, but can boast of two
outstanding players in Wilbur
Heath, the league’s best back-
board performer and in the Gor-
don Neideigh, the league’s ace
scorer. Neideigh set a new game
record with a 32-point perfor-
mance against Springfi eld and
new 10-game record with 168
points, which broke the 150
points set by Gard of the Uni-
versity high in 1938.
The squad scored victories
over several strong out of dis-
trict teams including Weed and
Eureka, Calif., North Bend and
Corvallis.
Burglary Attempt, E Main
St.
A caller advised of two males
trying to open the door at a
business at the above location.
The caller ran them off and the
subjects were last seen running
east-bound from the alley. One
subject was wearing a large
backpack.
Feb. 25
Suspicious Suspect, 16th
and Washington
Caller advised seeing a male
subject with a fl ashlight going
through trash for cans. The call-
er stopped to ask the man what
he was doing and he stated he
was only looking for cans. Offi -
cers checked on the subject and
determined that he was not stay-
ing in the area.
City staff spent Tuesday after-
noon, Feb. 23 in training on the
new City web page that is being
designed. The page is opera-
tional and posted on an intranet
to allow for adjustments, testing
and the addition of information.
The new page will include a
variety of features that the City
says will make updating the
content easier and will work
nicely across multiple devices.
Police Department
Back Row: Asst. Coach Whitaker, Bob McBee, Charlie Rice, Wally Morelock, Kenneth
Harker, Spud Campbell, Marvin Schaffer, Bruce Johnson, Donald Eastburn, Ronald
Chapman, Milo Chapman, Coach Bob Dusenberry; Second Row: David Husle, Virgil
Newton, Norman Stevenson, Mike Gamble, David Porter, Bill Kanel, Don Nickols, Dean
Kelly, Red Glenn, Champ Husted, Gordon Neideigh, Harlan Micky; front row: Mgr.
Frank Grewelle, Cecil Martin, Jerry Mickey, Wilbur Heath, Noel Campbell, Harlan Chap-
man, Asst. Manager Joe Getty.
POLICE BLOTTER
Feb. 24
Webpage Training
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
Burglary, Village Dr.
A caller advised that the locks
to a door had been pried open
and $100 worth of cans and bot-
tles were taken. There was no
sign of damage and the roll-up
door was unsecured.
Follow-up, Gateway
A caller advised of seeing a
transient male subject panhan-
dling at the business and said
that the subject matches a photo
and description posted on Face-
book. She only remembered
the subject's fi rst name (John),
and described him as wearing
a black hoodie with a backpack
and a bike beside him.
Feb. 26
Illegal Camping, Hwy 99
A caller advised that two sub-
jects were camping in the bushes
near the location and were soon
escorted away by offi cers.
Suspicious Subject, S Third
St.
Multiple calls came in regard-
ing a male subject at the location
who was nude from the waist
down. The subjected was con-
tacted by police and determined
to actually be a mentally ill fe-
male. The subject was given a
courtesy ride to her residence.
Feb. 28
Traffi c Hazard, Overpass
Connector
A caller at the station report-
ed a male transient subject that
wandered into traffi c as he was
going eastbound over the over-
pass in front of the caller’s vehi-
cle and another. When the caller
returned westbound over the
same overpass, the same subject
was seen wandering back into
traffi c.
Theft from Vehicle, Birch
Ave.
A caller reported that her
son witnessed a theft from the
caller’s vehicle approximately
20 minutes prior to the call. The
caller’s vehicle was parked in
the parking lot across from her
residence. An offi cer contacted
the caller for additional info but
the caller was unsure of what
property was missing and will
conduct an inventory when her
husband returns.
Traffi c Hazard, E. Main St.
Alley
A caller reported that a storm
drain cover on the east end of
the alley has been removed,
leaving a wide-open hole and
a hazard to motorists and pe-
destrians. The cover was laying
near a trash bin on the east end
of the alley. An offi cer placed
the storm drain cover back in
place.
Department of Revenue posts
delinquent taxpayer names online
O
regon’s top 100 delin-
quent income taxpayers
owe millions in unpaid taxes,
and the state is testing a new
way to collect that debt.
The Oregon Department of
Revenue’s website now features
a list of the top delinquent tax-
payers for both the personal in-
come tax and income tax with-
holding programs. Perusing the
list determines that there are no
individuals or businesses with
addresses in the Cottage Grove
area among either list of delin-
quent taxpayers.
“This is a pilot project, test-
ing a new tool to encourage tax
compliance and increase collec-
tion of delinquent taxes,” said
Chris Wytoski, collections man-
ager for the Personal Tax and
Compliance Division. “More
than 30 states use public posting
of delinquent taxpayer infor-
mation, with positive results,”
Wytoski added.
The Department of Revenue
said that inclusion in this list
isn’t the fi rst step in the collec-
tions process.
“We tried to resolve these
debts with the taxpayers us-
ing other collection methods,
but they haven’t paid,” Wytoski
said.
Once identifi ed as being
among the top delinquent tax-
payers in Oregon, taxpayers re-
ceive a warning notice and have
another opportunity to resolve
their debt before their informa-
tion is posted online.
The information posted in-
cludes the taxpayer’s name, their
address, the type of delinquent
tax, and the amount of the debt,
as shown on the tax warrant re-
corded by one of Oregon’s 36
counties.
“All of the information we’re
posting is pulled from recorded
tax warrants, and it’s public,”
Wytoski said.
The list is generated based
on the highest dollar amounts
shown on active tax warrants re-
corded by Oregon’s 36 counties.
The amounts shown online may
not be the current amount owed
to the state, as the recorded
amount doesn’t refl ect payments
made or additional amounts
added, such as interest.
Personal income tax is the
amount each person owes to
the state based on the income
earned during the tax year. Tax-
payers accrue personal income
tax debt when they don’t pay
the amount they owe when they
fi le their taxes, or if they don’t
fi le at all. In situations where a
taxpayer doesn’t fi le a return,
the department makes an assess-
COTTAGE GROVE
TAX OFFICE
28 South 6th Street, Suite C
Cottage Grove
Fast, Reliable, Confi dential
$25 off
NEW CLIENT RETURNS
(must present ad)
Drop-off Ser vice, Direct Deposit,
Saturday Walk-ins
Call for an
appointment today.
541-942-7070
ment based on information pro-
vided on W-2s and 1099s fi led
by employers.
Income tax withholding is
money withheld from employ-
ees’ paychecks to cover income
tax owed by the employees.
Withholding debt is accrued
when the employer withholds
the money from employees in
trust, but doesn’t remit it to the
department.
Visit www.oregon.gov/dor to
get tax forms, check the status
of your refund, or make tax pay-
ments; or call (800) 356-4222
toll-free from an Oregon prefi x
(English or Spanish); (503) 378-
4988 in Salem and outside Or-
egon; or email, questions.dor@
oregon.gov. For TTY (hearing
or speech impaired), call (800)
886-7204.
Last week, Offi cer Steven
Biehler graduated from the
Oregon Department of Public
Safety Standards and Training
Basic Police Academy and has
returned to the department to
complete his fi eld training.
On March 3, the department
welcomes its newest offi cer,
Josh Dumas. Dumas and his
family are relocating back to
the area after living in Bakers-
fi eld, Calif. Both Dumas and
his
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From the
City's Friday
Update
wife were born and raised in
Oregon. Dumas will be sworn
in on Wednesday, March 9 at
11:15 a.m. in the City Hall
Council Chambers.
Water taste
competition
This week, the Cascades to
Coast Subsection of the Ameri-
can Water Works Association
held the annual best tasting wa-
ter competition for all member
cities. Fifteen cities submitted
samples for this “friendly”
competition. Best tasting
water honors for 2016 went to
the City of Sweet Home (118
points). Second place was
claimed by the Tumalo Rim
Water Improvement District,
near Bend (117 points), and
third place went to the City of
Bend (115 points). The City of
Cottage Grove was in thirteenth
place with 82 points. This year,
the judges used a more elabo-
rate point system, with 150
total points possible.
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