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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Clouds and
intervals of sun
Brilliant sunshine
56° 33°
60° 36°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Plenty of sunshine
A stray afternoon
shower
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
65° 40°
70° 47°
68° 45°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
65° 34°
64° 32°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
49°
58°
76° (1923)
30°
37°
23° (2008)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
1.49"
1.29"
3.86"
2.74"
3.84"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
54°
61°
78° (1930)
0.00"
1.21"
0.81"
2.70"
1.52"
3.08"
SUN AND MOON
Apr 7
Bend
49/26
Burns
50/29
6:40 a.m.
7:20 p.m.
12:28 a.m.
10:16 a.m.
First
Full
Apr 13
Caldwell
60/36
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Cascades: Partly sunny today; not as cool
across the north. Mainly clear tonight.
Northern California: Partly sunny today;
snow at times in the interior mountains.
Mainly clear tonight.
Wednesday
NNE 6-12
NW 4-8
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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today. Clear
tonight. Brilliant sunshine tomorrow;
warmer in central parts.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cloudy today;
a couple of rain or snow showers in the
south and central parts.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow.
Today
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to Oregon Department of
Forestry State Forester Doug
Decker, in which Palmer
said he started investigating
“an alleged criminal case”
in 2010 between the city
of Monument and the rural
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obtained
“legally
and
lawfully through ODF” by
Peterson.
Palmer said “there was a
dispute as to who lawfully
owned what equipment and
how some of the funding was
channeled through the City’s
Federal Tax ID number and
their (Dun & Bradstreet
number).” He said Ryan
Joslin, the district attorney
at the time, informed the
parties the issue was a civil
matter.
Palmer’s letter indicated
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believed it rightly owned the
equipment, because it was
procured with grants in the
name of “Monument Rural
Fire District.” However,
Palmer
said
Peterson
obtained the equipment
legally and still possessed it.
Palmer also said the
equipment was on private
property, and there was no
probable cause a crime was
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for a search warrant.
“As it stands right now ... I
do not have enough evidence,
nor do I believe I have the
authority to intervene in this
dispute,” he wrote.
In Oregon law, it is a
defense against prosecution
for theft “that the defendant
acted under an honest claim
or right, in that ... the defen-
dant reasonably believed that
the defendant was entitled to
the property involved or had
a right to acquire or dispose
of it as the defendant did.”
When Palmer deputized
Peterson, he joined a long list
of Grant County deputies.
The sheriff has deputized
69 people in a variety of
categories, including deputy,
corrections, reserve, search
and rescue, chaplain, special
deputy, public lands patrol,
public lands deputy and
natural resource committee.
Oregon law says sheriffs
are responsible for the
conduct of their deputies.
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 91° in Miami, Fla.
Low 10° in Alamosa, Colo.
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May 2013. The indictment
count for possession of a
stolen vehicle lists “a 1970
Ford, a 1974 Freightliner,
a 1983 Ford L9M, a 1993
Ford F350, a second 1993
Ford F350, a 1965 Western
States, a 1966 Ford 900, a
1974 Western States, a 1986
Ford Econoline, and a 1988
International.”
For about a decade,
Peterson was a vocal advo-
cate for establishing a rural
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Monument area. He was
chief of Monument’s city
department at one time and
also acted as chief of the
rural district that was yet to
be formalized.
After the rural district
was formed by voters in
November 2012, the newly
installed board and Peterson
differed on its management
and operation. Noting chal-
lenges with meeting proce-
dures, operations, equipment
and leadership, all of the
board members resigned
in December 2012. The
board was re-established in
January 2013 when the Grant
County Court appointed new
members.
In May 2013, Peterson
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intended to sue them. His
attorney at the time, Brett
J. Hall, asked the board, the
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the Oregon Department of
Forestry to stop harassing
Peterson.
Hall’s letter mentioned
Peterson’s efforts to obtain
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for a rural district. Hall
said Peterson believed
both the original and the
new board members held
private, unlawful meetings,
and when Peterson raised
concerns, they began retali-
ating against him.
“This includes demands
that he return the equip-
ment and machines that
he had invested hundreds
of thousands of dollars
in, accusing him of theft,
initiating multiple criminal
investigations, and a general
continuing campaign of
harassment,” Hall wrote.
Hall also released an April
25, 2013, letter from Palmer
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One of Grant County’s
newest deputies is awaiting
trial on felony charges.
On March 1, Grant
County Sheriff Glenn Palmer
deputized Roy Peterson, who
was set to begin trial March
28 in Grant County Circuit
Court on theft charges stem-
ming from the acquisition of
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However, state prosecutors
requested a continuance for
a family emergency, and
the trial is now scheduled to
begin Aug. 22.
The state’s attorney,
Senior Assistant Attorney
General Daniel P. Wendel,
mentioned that Peterson had
been deputized at a pretrial
conference
March
24.
Wendel said he wanted an
order prohibiting Peterson
from arriving to court with a
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Peterson’s attorney, D.
Zachary Hostetter of Enter-
prise, said if such a motion
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a hearing on the matter,
because Peterson was part of
the county search and rescue
team.
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appointment of Peterson
mentions
“Search
&
Rescue” and “Radio Tech/
Communications,” though
the document also says
Peterson is appointed “to do
and perform any act which
(Palmer) might perform as
Sheriff.”
The state has accused
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aggravated theft of more than
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aggravated theft of vehicles
and equipment worth more
than $50,000, possession of
stolen vehicles worth more
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theft of more than $5,000
in cash. The indictment
states the alleged incidents
occurred between March 5,
2012, and Feb. 21, 2013. He
has pleaded not guilty to all
four.
The charges stem from
an investigation by the
Oregon State Police and
the Oregon Department
of Justice that began in
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WORLD CITIES
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Apr 21
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WINDS
Medford
63/37
PRECIPITATION
Mar 31
John Day
51/34
Ontario
59/40
34°
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15° (1975)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Albany
62/36
Eugene
62/36
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
73° 47°
Spokane
Wenatchee
55/35
63/40
Tacoma
Moses
59/36
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 64/35
55/34
60/37
61/35
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
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57/37 Lewiston
66/36
Astoria
59/36
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
64/41
Pendleton 49/26
The Dalles 64/32
56/33
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La Grande
Salem
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Corvallis
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HIGH
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Seattle
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ALMANAC
Yesterday
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Today
SATURDAY
Mild with plenty
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Neediest move to front of line for college funds
PORTLAND — Oregon
will begin offering college
grants to the state’s low- and
middle-income
students
based on their level of
need. That’s a change from
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the soonest used to jump to
the front of the line provided
they were Oregon residents
with an annual family
income of less than $70,000,
said Bob Brew, director
of the Higher Education
Coordinating Commission’s
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Completion.
“Lower-income students
tended to apply later and
not get the money,” Brew
told The Oregonian on
Friday. Once the state money
allocated to the Oregon
Opportunity Grant had all
been assigned, it was gone.
State lawmakers tweaked
the system in 2015, adding
more money to the grant
and allowing the neediest
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They increased the
program by nearly 24 percent
for the 2015-17 cycle, dedi-
cating $140.9 million to the
program. The expansion will
allow an additional 16,000
people to receive grants,
Brew said.
About 40,000 students
currently receive an Oregon
Opportunity Grant.
Lawmakers
also
approved rules to guarantee
the neediest students who
apply for the program receive
preferential treatment when
the state distributes aid for
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But some administrators
are concerned about the
impact of those rules, which
could mean some full-time
students who had been
receiving a maximum of
$2,250 in state aid will no
longer qualify. “We want
to make sure those students
aren’t further disenfran-
chised in their path to get a
degree,” said Hans Bernard,
associate vice president for
state and community affairs
at the University of Oregon.
Low-income
students
face funding gaps even if they
qualify for the Federal Pell
Grant and the state program,
said Bernard, explaining that
about 2,000 such students
receive full tuition through
the university’s Pathway-
Oregon program.
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