Lee Juillerat

1 week ago | heraldandnews.com | Lee Juillerat

Boat tours will be offered again this summer on Crater Lake. After some uncertainty, ExplorUS, the concessionaire at Crater Lake National Park, announced the tours will be offered. The status of the tours had been uncertain because of the Cleetwood Cove Trail and marina rehabilitation project, which had been scheduled to begin late this summer. Park officials instead decided to begin work on the trail, which provides the only access to the lake and is the park’s most popular trail, in 2026.

2 weeks ago | heraldandnews.com | Lee Juillerat

A new firearms display will be featured when the Lake County Museum in Lakeview opens for the summer on Thursday, May 1. Museum director Marie Lee said the new location for the firearms was created in the Schminck house to better display the collection. The guns will be located on the main floor in Dalph Schminck’s library. Lee said the display was moved to be in a more accessible location with better lighting and more visibility. kAm“vF?D[ :E EFC?D @FE[ 2C6 >@C6 :?E6C6DE:?8 E92?

2 weeks ago | heraldandnews.com | Lee Juillerat

The 80th anniversary of the day when a pregnant mother and five young children from Bly were killed by a Japanese balloon bomb will be remembered with a series of activities. The deaths, the only fatalities on the continental United States during World War II, resulted when the group was on a picnic near Gearhart Mountain 13 miles from Bly and they inadvertently detonated the bomb.

2 weeks ago | heraldandnews.com | Lee Juillerat

Five Oregon state parks in and near the Klamath Basin, including four in Lake County, are among the 20 least visited based on visitor counts for 2024 from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Coming in at No. 9 among the least visited is the Jackson F. Kimball State Recreation Site located off Highway 97 north of Klamath Falls near Chiloquin, which had 22,830 visitors in 2024. That figure represents a 10 percent increase over 2023.

3 weeks ago | heraldandnews.com | Lee Juillerat

It’s been years since Leonard Hill has been the first across the finish line at his favorite race, the Pear Blossom Run in Medford. But even at age 72 and limited by injuries, he’s not finished. “Just enjoy it,” Hill says of running, something that’s been part of his lifestyle since 1966 when he was a freshman at Phoenix High School in the Rogue Valley. “I would have rather played football, but at 4-foot 11-inches and 100 pounds that was never going to happen.”kAmw6’D 8C@H?