by OptimistPrime | Sep 29, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
WALLA WALLA — Though the game was closer this time, Walla Walla Episcopal Priest David Sibley won his third Jeopardy! match Wednesday, Sept. 28.Sibley, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, added $11,599 — his smallest win yet — bringing his three-game total to...
by OptimistPrime | Sep 29, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
HERMISTON — There is more to the makeup of soil than meets the eye, as students from across Umatilla and Morrow counties found out this week.The Blue Mountain FFA District Soil Judging Competition was Tuesday, Sept. 28, at Bracher Farms’ new shop near Cold...
by OptimistPrime | Sep 29, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
LEXINGTON — The nation’s first large-scale clean energy generator using wind, solar and batteries has powered up in Eastern Oregon.Portland General Electric and NextEra Energy Resources partnered to create the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility near Lexington....
by OptimistPrime | Sep 29, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
Amazon plans on building two new data centers near Hermiston that provide almost $10 million in annual revenue through large fees rather than full property taxes.The Hermiston City Council at its meeting Monday, Sept. 26, approved Amazon Data Services’...
by OptimistPrime | Sep 29, 2022 | Headline Feed, News, Statewide
Poached_Elk_Vernonia.jpgOSP Fish & Wildlife seeking public assistance with poached Elk – Columbia County (Photo) – 09/29/22 On September 23, 2022, at approximately 6:40 a.m., OSP Fish & Wildlife Troopers received information that a large bull elk...
by OptimistPrime | Sep 29, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
LA GRANDE — Cellphones are not going the way of old rotary phones at La Grande High School and La Grande Middle School. However, it is becoming much harder to find students using cellphones at school since the 2022-23 academic year started in late August.Students at...
