by OptimistPrime | Jan 26, 2023 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
LA GRANDE — Eastern Oregon University’s search for a new president is launching.The EOU Board of Trustees on Wednesday, Jan. 25, voted to give Summit Search and Solutions, an Ashville, North Carolina, firm Eastern hired to recruit presidential candidates, the green...
by OptimistPrime | Jan 26, 2023 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
PENDLETON — Attorney Michael Collins of Pendleton, 69, retired in December, ending 71 years of his family’s law practice in the city. He reflected on changes in the legal profession in his more than 42-year practice.”In looking back, there were no...
by OptimistPrime | Jan 26, 2023 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
SALEM — On-farm weddings would face different zoning rules in Eastern and Western Oregon under a bill meant to head off land use objections with a geographic compromise.Though restrictions in Western Oregon would remain unchanged under House Bill 2487, the proposal...
by OptimistPrime | Jan 26, 2023 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
PENDLETON — Every school district in Umatilla and Morrow counties had a higher graduation rate than the state average of 81.3% in the 2021-22 school year, according to data from the Oregon Department of Education.InterMountain Education Service District Superintendent...
by OptimistPrime | Jan 25, 2023 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
PENDLETON — After several years of delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Pendleton Chamber of Commerce’s Schools to Careers Program — or S2C — is in full swing. But its coordinator, Patti Hyatt, said there is room for growth.”The Schools to Careers...
by OptimistPrime | Jan 25, 2023 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation are working with two partnering agencies to try to restore a section of stream near Granite that is spawning habitat for chinook salmon and was altered by gold dredging more than a century ago.The stream is...