UPDATE: Expect smoke over Oregon City as fire at former paper mill smolders A fire, called in at about 3:45 a.m. Thursday at the former Blue Heron paper mill in Oregon City, closed Southeast ...

The Blue Heron Paper Company filed for bankruptcy in 2009, and the Oregon City mill shut down two years later. The complex has sat empty, moldering, ever since. The property was bought by the ...

The Chillicothe community is preparing for changes that will take place when the Pixelle Specialty Solutions paper mill in town shuts down.