In Response to, “Fish Rescue,” (10/12) While the click-bait headlines and sky-is-falling tone in The Source Weekly recent cover story on fish relocation efforts on the Deschutes River certainly attract more readers, the whole story is broader and far more complex. Central Oregon’s irrigation districts are currently working with more than 20 stakeholders to complete […]
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Sides Notes 9/14-9/21
Two-Year-Old Killed in Hwy 20 Crash A crash involving three vehicles on Highway 20 Sunday left a two-year-old child dead and several others hurt. According to the Oregon State Police, Sherwood resident David Fincher was driving his Toyota Tacoma eastbound west of Tumalo Sunday morning when he lost control on a corner and crossed the […]
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Side Notes 2/17-2/24
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia found dead Gov. Kate Brown ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff immediately until the day of interment in honor of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. 13. “Justice Scalia provided many years of dedicated service to one of the most […]
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Sidenotes 2/10-2/17
A federal grand jury indicted 16 people involved in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on the charge of Conspiracy to Impede Officers of the United States on Feb. 3. The indictment states that the occupiers used intimidation tactics and traveled to Harney County in October 2015 to warn the sheriff of “extreme civil unrest if […]