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TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016
140th Year, No. 62
Snow
report
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2015
More needed to feed
streams into summer
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Files dug up, fences torn down
for years. It’s not clear where the
fence was located or which rancher
sought the group’s help.
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Group will use documents to ‘expose’ discrimination against Hammonds
By RICK BOWMER
Associated Press
BURNS — The leader of a small,
armed group occupying a national
wildlife refuge near Burns said
Monday he and his followers are
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ments stored inside refuge buildings.
Ammon Bundy told reporters the
documents will be used to “expose”
By GEORGE PLAVEN
East Oregonian
Oregon started off 2016
with more snow than at
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heading into next summer.
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percent of normal across the
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percent a year ago.
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PENDLETON
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Cutie and Cuddles, who are most likely siblings, share a pen at PAWS animal shelter on Monday in Pendleton. The pair of pooches were
two of 20 dogs taken in by the animal shelter this weekend from a seizure in Yakima County.
Puppy love
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to bathe, blow-dry 20 neglected pooches
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“We’ve had our
share of low
snowpack winters
in recent years.
I’d like to see us
buck that trend.”
— Melissa Webb, snow
hydrologist with the NRCS
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teers examined and bathed the
By KATHY ANEY
East Oregonian
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Crystal Sullenger, the manager for PAWS animal shelter, pets two
dogs named Hugs and Kisses on Monday at the shelter in Pendleton.
The Pendleton animal shelter took in 20 dogs from a rescue over the
weekend and they are now trying to fi nd homes for the animals.
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prone to close; commercial berg said the department doesn’t
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long it closes the highway, but he
estimated the department closes the
hill about a dozen times a year in
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the Oregon Department of Trans- and down the hill.
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portation to close the steep incline
has
been operating pilot cars and
between Mission and Meacham,
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ODOT calls “one of the most OLYLQJIRURYHUDGHFDGH
Semi-trailers drive down Cabbage Hill on Interstate 84 in 2015 near the
hazardous stretches of road” in the
snow line east of Pendleton.
See CABBAGE HILL/8A
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian