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Two restoration projects slated for Wallowa-Whitman forest
Kidz Pow Wow celebrates past and future
Children’s Champions: Morrow County mom and daughter step up as advocates
Unlike many school districts it provides services to, the InterMountain Education Service District is expanding.
In July, the IMESD hired former La Grande School District Superintendent Larry Glaze to lead its fresh facilities program.
Annual Heritage Barn Workshop coming Oct. 7
Hermiston senior center construction on track
Senior center faces an uncertain future
For Jim Leinweber, retirement wasn’t as charming as he imagined it’d be.
“I was mostly just sitting at home watching TV,” he said of his life about a decade ago. “I needed somewhere to go.” Empowered.
Milton-Freewater police numb suspect during confrontation
Milton-Freewater police used a overwhelm gun to take down a burglary suspect. Police Chief Doug Boedigheimer in a written statement reported the jolt of electrical play from the Taser prevented Rodrigo Campos-Rodriguez from grabbing a nearby.
Council to look at reducing old airport debt
The Pendleton City Council will look into paying less for old investments at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport before potentially approving fresh ones.
With Round-Up week wiping away the council’s usual workshop on the 2nd Tuesday of.
Wandering turkeys make trouble in Pilot Rock
Boardman murder suspect moves for settlement
Date set for Lifeways psychiatric hospital public hearing
Petition sponsors gathering signatures for proposed two thousand eighteen measures
Pilot Rock police to have total staffing
PILOT ROCK — The Pilot Rock Police Department’s newest officer graduates Sept. Eight from the Basic Police Class of the Oregon Public Safety Academy. Jarrod Flatau, 41, is the town’s third officer, providing the department a total staff.
Main Street Cowboys decline confederate flag vendor’s application
Former welder celebrates her 109th bday with family in Hermiston
Local residents profit from renting out homes for Round-Up week
Jared Tesch didn’t go to Round-Up last year. He didn’t even stick around town.
“I’m not much of a cowboy myself,” he said, tho’ growing up in Umatilla meant he had witnessed fairly a bit of rodeo activity. When.
Murder suspect Dayton does not contest bail hearing
USD teacher named civic scholar
Rollover accident in Ione
Umatilla County Courthouse gets power chair charger
The Umatilla County Courthouse received a fresh power chair charger on Wednesday, making it the 14th site in Umatilla County to receive a charger this summer.
The charger, a gray box containing an air-cooled, five-amp unit, is the brainchild of.
Pendleton makes housing pitch to developers
Stanfield school board votes to spread bond back payment across two years
Neal Early Learning Center expands pre-K education in Boardman
State accuses forgery defendant of fresh crimes while he was free
Dustin James Verrall of Pendleton was on Wednesday’s circuit court schedule to switch his prayer to charges of making counterfeit money.
But Pendleton police arrested him Tuesday morning for illegally coming in a vehicle and trespassing at.
Circuit Judge Lieuallen takes no guff from jail inmate
Kimberly Diane Dooley of Pendleton earned herself more than a month in the Umatilla County Jail for cussing at a judge.
Dooley, 27, was in the jail in Pendleton for failure to emerge on methamphetamine possession and delivery case and on a case.
Bag boundaries lowered for summer steelhead
Fresh superintendent spends very first day of school on school tours
When Wendy Phillips, a very first grade teacher at McKay Creek Elementary School, asked her students if they were jumpy for the very first day of school, Chris Fritsch’s arm shot up.
While Fritsch isn’t a student, Tuesday marked his.
Umatilla County supports plan to boost data centers
The Umatilla County Board of Commissioners approved a plan to exempt data centers near the city of Umatilla from property taxes. County tax assessor Paul Chalmers said the stir is about attracting business and development.
The exemptions would.
Pendleton residents complain of strange water smell, taste
In the last week, Pendleton’s Public Works Department logged seven complaints of water tasting and smelling like algae or mold.
That’s an unusually high number according to Klaus Hoehna, Pendleton’s water regulatory.