by OptimistPrime | Dec 12, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
LA GRANDE — The latest gas price statistics from AAA Oregon/Idaho paint both an encouraging and disheartening picture for motorists in Union, Wallowa and Baker counties.The numbers indicate that average gas prices are continuing to decline throughout the state but...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 12, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
For the fourth year in a row, a couple of local people have led an effort to give Christmas presents to sick children.To provide for children in pediatric units in Portland, Seattle and Spokane, Jasmine Ellwood and her father, Mike Ellwood, started the Holiday Toy...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 12, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
The VFW’s 12th annual Youth Shoot brought about 30 youths, ages 10 to 15, to the range at the Veterans Memorial Club in Baker City to show off their marksmanship with .22 caliber rifles.Jordan Little, 15, claimed a perfect score and went home with a new rifle....
by OptimistPrime | Dec 12, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
The VFW’s 12th annual Youth Shoot brought about 30 youths, ages 10 to 15, to the range at the Veterans Memorial Club in Baker City to show off their marksmanship with .22 caliber rifles.Jordan Little, 15, claimed a perfect score and went home with a new rifle....
by OptimistPrime | Dec 12, 2022 | Eastern Oregon, Headline Feed
HERMISTON — Angelina Prihodiko wasn’t planning on being so invested in firefighting when she first started a fire science program. But she found herself relocating to Hermiston from Vancouver, Washington, to pursue a future in the field.Prihodiko, 18, took up a...
by OptimistPrime | Dec 12, 2022 | Eugene, Headline Feed
At 9:45 p.m. on December 10, Eugene Police units and EPD’s Major Collision Investigation Team responded to a wrong-way driver crash on Beltline Hwy. A man, later identified as Justin Jon Mundell, age 48, of Eugene, had been driving his Mercedes G5 SUV westbound...