by OptimistPrime | Mar 18, 2024 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
HERMISTON — Mental health advocates, elected officials and community members turned out en masse Thursday, March 14, for the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Rivers Edge Acute Center for Healing — or REACH — in Hermiston.Approximately 100 people gathered at the facility on...
by OptimistPrime | Mar 18, 2024 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
HERMISTON — The boards of commissioners for Umatilla and Morrow counties have approved a plant to address the ongoing nitrate issue in the Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area.The two boards met Wednesday, March 13, in Hermiston and heard from Morrow...
by OptimistPrime | Mar 17, 2024 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
PENDLETON — High school students from Umatilla and Morrow counties traveled Thursday, March 14, to the Pendleton Convention Center for the 2024 Career Connect Conference.The conference offered more than 460 students the chance to explore their options after high...
by OptimistPrime | Mar 17, 2024 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
PENDLETON — The Pendleton Planning Commission at its meeting Thursday, March 14, worked on what language it wanted in the city’s housing strategy.Commissioners Joseph Hull, Brian Currin and Steve Muller attended the public meeting, which was not enough for a quorum....
by OptimistPrime | Mar 17, 2024 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
HERMISTON — Locals can weigh in a public hearing Thursday, March 21, in Hermiston on the proposal to build a 300-megawatt wind farm in Umatilla and Morrow counties.The Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council in November 2020 approved the site certificate for Wheatridge...