by OptimistPrime | Dec 15, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
BOARDMAN — Oregon’s government ethics commission and Department of Justice each are scrutinizing an unusual transaction in Morrow County in which a nonprofit organization sold part of its operation to local political leaders and some of the nonprofit’s own board...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 15, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
PORTLAND — Tom Redhawk Tias has pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter slaying of Thomas James VanPelt Jr., 46, on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon in a press release announced Tias pleaded...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 15, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
PENDLETON — The Pendleton Warming Station has lost three-quarters of its volunteers in just a few years, Executive Director Dwight Johnson said as the station enters its third winter without congregate shelter operations.Due to the steep decline in volunteers and the...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 15, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
PENDLETON — After participating as volunteers in a “wet lab” on June 6 in Boardman, Marilyn Holt and Robin Harris of Pendleton witnessed how important it is for law enforcement to have quality equipment for training.The purpose of a wet lab is to help...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 15, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
WESTON — The Athena-Weston School District has added another resource to help local students, the TigerScot Treasure Trunk. Weston Middle School’s TTT offers a variety of new to gently used clothing and fresh hygiene products for free.”What I...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 15, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
MILTON-FREEWATER — Milton-Freewater is upgrading its Yantis Park Playground and Paths project with help from an Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation grant.The $114,000 grant will help the city to install disability accessibility features, improve walkways and...