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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Jailed Bundy defends Sheriff Palmer
right to free speech.
Ammon Bundy said in a
recording posted Sunday on
PORTLAND — Ammon the Bundy Ranch Facebook
Bundy, the jailed leader page that Palmer was the only
from the armed takeover of Oregon sheriff who didn’t
Malheur National Wildlife get caught in the “political
Refuge, has come to the deception” that the people of
defense of a sheriff who is Burns were in danger during
being investigated by the the occupation.
“Sheriff Palmer went to
state.
The state agency that the source and found out
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looking into complaints that found out that we at the
Grant County Sheriff Glenn refuge stood for the Consti-
Palmer twice met with tution,” and the protesters
occupiers who traveled to “love this country and would
visit him during the 41-day not hurt another person.”
The
Department
of
standoff that ended Feb. 11.
If Palmer is found to have Public Safety Standards
violated standards, he could and Training received nine
complaints about Palmer,
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The occupiers and their sheriff since 2000 of the
conservative
defense attorneys have politically
portrayed the standoff as a county that neighbors the
peaceful protest in which Malheur National Wildlife
the group was exercising its Refuge.
By STEVEN DUBOIS
Associated Press
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Luttrell, manager of emer-
gency
communications
for the city of John Day.
She said federal and state
authorities viewed Palmer
as a security leak, and there-
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of the loop during the Jan.
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the arrests of the standoff’s
leaders and the shooting
death of occupier Robert
“LaVoy” Finicum.
The group was on its way
to a community meeting with
supporters in Grant County,
which Palmer attended. In a
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Finicum yells to police:
“Just shoot me. I’m going to
meet the sheriff. The sheriff
is waiting for us.”
Luttrell wrote that the
911 dispatch center received
many calls during the
standoff from people praising
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Washington wolf
population grows
by 32 percent
Palmer for supporting the
occupiers and their demand
that the government free
two ranchers imprisoned
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also wanted public lands
relinquished to local control.
Palmer belongs to the
Constitutional Sheriffs and
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which describes itself as the
“last line of defense standing
between the overreaching
federal government and your
Constitutionally guaranteed
rights.”
He did not immediately
return a phone message
Monday. He has previously
declined to speak about the
investigation.
Bundy was one of 26
people arrested in connec-
tion with the occupation. All
are charged with conspiracy,
and some are accused of
additional crimes.
OLYMPIA, Wash.
(AP) — The number of
wolves in Washington state
grew by about 32 percent
last year.
The Department of
Fish and Wildlife’s annual
survey found at least 90
wolves in the state by the
end of 2015. That was up
from at least 68 wolves
counted in 2014.
The survey released
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least four new wolf packs
in Ferry, Okanogan,
Pend Oreille and Stevens
counties. There are now 18
wolf packs and at least eight
breeding pairs.
Gray wolves were all but
eliminated from Western
states in the last century,
but are now recovering in
several states.
The state says there were
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wolves and livestock than
in the previous year. Wolves
were responsible for killing
seven cattle and injuring
one guard dog. Seven
wolves died for various
reasons.
Researchers used aerial
surveys, remote cameras,
wolf tracks and signals
from radio-collared wolves
to count the animals.
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we’ll heat it using steam,” he
said. “We’ll heat it, maintain
it and transload the product
from the rail cars to trucks.
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very slowly, so as you heat it
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Add that new liquid
product to the various goods
the railway already moves,
and the oldest munici-
pal-owned railroad in the
country is on track for a record
year, Operations Director
Matt Wiederholt said.
“Our car count is going
up; we’re having a stellar
year,” he said. “Right now,
we’re over where we were the
whole year last year, and we
still have four more months.
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by at least 300 carloads.”
The projected year-end
total for carloads is 874, a
roughly 50 percent increase
from 583 in 2014-15,
according to the railway’s
numbers. Projected revenue
shows a similar success story.
The railway expects to bring
in $839,600 by the end of the
year, a 42 percent increase
from the $590,366 it brought
in last year.
It’s a big turnaround from
about a decade ago, Wieder-
holt said.
Back in 2004, the railroad
By AARON WEST
The (Bend) Bulletin
PRINEVILLE
—
Business is heating up at
Prineville’s Railway and
Freight Depot.
In the next couple of
months, a new deal the
railway struck last year
with a transport services
company will give the short-
line railroad the equipment
to heat liquid to scorching
temperatures. The new boiler,
a machine that can make the
most viscous liquids watery
with heat, will allow for
unloading and loading of
liquid products that haven’t
been able to move in and out
of Central Oregon before.
Superior Bulk Cargo, the
Chicago-based
company
that will own and operate
the boiler at the freight depot
north of Redmond where the
Prineville Railway’s tracks
tie in to the main north-south
line, is setting up its facilities
now. And when the boiler
goes online later this spring,
Superior Vice President of
Operations Steve Lowman
said the railway will be able
to move a completely new
kind of product.
“The rail car will arrive
to the site transporting a
liquid, and then we’ll hook
the boiler up to the car and
wasn’t making enough
money to sustain itself and
was eating away at the slush
fund it had built up in the
1960s, when the local logging
industry made the railroad
so successful the people of
Prineville didn’t have to pay
taxes.
“We were not operation-
ally viable,” said Wiederholt,
who the city hired for the job
in 2004. “We were milking
money out of that slush fund.
The city considered shutting
(the railway) down.”
But instead of closing the
doors on the railway, built
nearly a hundred years ago
in 1918, it decided to invest
instead. Using the slush
fund money, the city built
133,000 square feet of ware-
house space, which allowed
customers to unload and load
cargo on-site, and even set up
shop on the premises.
The two clients and 80
carloads the railroad had in
2004 — a low point, Wieder-
holt said — began to turn
around. Now with 32 service
agreements, more freight
depot built in 2013 and the
ability to move new kinds
of product with the boiler,
Wiederholt said it nearly feels
like the 1960s again.
The boom can be traced
directly back to the service
agreements,
which
are
contracts
the
railway’s
customers enter into to use its
facilities. Customers pay the
railway to load and unload
the goods they’re bringing
into Prineville, as well as
for the railway’s warehouse
space to store the products.
“We haul everything from
tires, lumber, magnesium
chloride de-icer, animal
feed, diesel — those are our
primary commodities right
now,” Wiederholt said. “Tires
are our biggest shipper right
now. Les Schwab — all of
their domestic tires come in
by rail.”
The fact that the railway is
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to customers, Wiederholt
said. While a privately
operated railroad is in the
business of making money,
the Prineville Railway’s
priority is supporting the local
economy by creating busi-
ness and jobs. The customers
don’t seem to mind.
“The biggest difference
is the service,” said Dustin
Corwin, Prineville branch
manager for Carson, a fuel
transport company. “It’s
like a corporation versus
a mom-and-pop business.
That’s how I would compare
the two different types of
railway. I think Prineville
is
extremely
customer
service-oriented.”
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however, dry in the south.
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parts and near the Cascades.
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with spotty showers. Partly cloudy tonight
with a shower in places.
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with a shower in places, but a snow shower
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POULSBO, Wash.
(AP) — The police chief
in Poulsbo has resigned
after investigations into his
conduct.
The Kitsap Sun reports
Poulsbo Police Chief
Al Townsend resigned
Monday, saying in a
resignation letter he
believes he had become a
distraction for the city and
the police department.
Townsend, who had
been chief since early 2013,
had been the subject of
recent investigations by
the city into whether he
had a romantic relationship
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denied any wrongdoing
and Poulsbo Mayor Becky
Erickson says he was
cleared of the allegations.
Erickson says Townsend
resigned after she told him
he would be placed on
administrative leave as the
city looked into what she
called “other information.”
The department’s deputy
chief since February, Andy
Pate, has been named
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Wallowa-Whitman National
Forest is overseeing the
work. He says it will reduce
the risk of mudslides in
Stices Gulch and along
Highway 245.
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focuses on about 88 acres
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