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Police arrest suspect in Milton-Freewater murder
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says physical
evidence key to
the investigation
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By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
MiLtON-Fr EEWa-
tEr — shayla Fawn
record tsosie of Mil-
ton-Freewater faces mur-
der for the death of her
boyfriend in June.
Police Chief doug
Boedigheimer announced
Walla Walla police on
Wednesday
arrested
record tsosie, 22, on a
umatilla County warrant
for murder and unlaw-
ful use of a weapon in the
stabbing death of Chris-
tian rodriguez-Calvillo.
the
couple
lived
together at 604 Ward st.,
Milton-Freewater, where
police arrived early June
21 after a 911 call and
found rodriguez-Calvillo
bleeding out on the
kitchen floor. He died at
3:25 that morning while en
route to Kadlec regional
Medical Center, richland,
Washington.
record tsosie appeared
thursday morning in
Walla Walla County supe-
rior Court with her attor-
ney, William McCool,
who told Judge John Lohr-
mann his client would not
waive extradition to uma-
tilla County and urged
the judge to release her to
Set for growth
See Murder, Page A8
Wright
named
Bend
publisher
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
launching a 48-home subdivi-
sion they plan to complete in 18
months, stockdale said, while
two other 250-home subdivi-
sions are also in the works.
“it’s kind of coming at us
from everywhere,” he said.
stockdale said developers
seem to be putting in homes
that land around the $225,000
BENd — the Bulletin
in Bend lost its editor and
gained a new publisher.
the EO Media group
takes ownership of the Bul-
letin
and
redmond
spokesman
on sept 1.
EO Media’s
Chief Oper-
ating Offi-
cer
Heidi
Wright
Wright
is
stepping into the role as
publisher for the Bulletin.
“i will be relocating to
Bend in the next few weeks
and will continue to serve as
COO of EO Media group
from that location,” Wright
said.
Wright also will be pub-
lisher of the spokesman,
the Bulletin’s sister weekly
paper. Her husband, Richard
schuurman, will join her.
Prior to Wright taking
EO Media’s chief operating
role two years ago, she was
the chief financial officer
and human resources offi-
cer of Western Communi-
cations, then-owner of the
Bulletin. steve Forrester,
president and CEO of EO
Media, said Wright’s deep
knowledge of operations
and insights into the news-
paper’s market equip her to
lead the Bulletin.
But the flagship paper in
Central Oregon will be with-
out an editor for the pres-
ent. Wright said editor Erik
Lukens will not be joining
the company. EO Media is
looking to bring in an editor
from outside the company.
“We expect to announce
a new editor soon,” she said.
Bulletin city editor Julie
Johnson and features editor
Jody Lawrence-turner are
steering the ship until the
new editor takes the helm.
the Bulletin reported
Lukens joined the paper in
1998 as the editorial page
editor. He became city edi-
tor in 2011 and left in 2012 to
become editorial page editor
at the Oregonian, where he
and his staff won the Pulit-
zer Prize for editorial writ-
ing in 2014. He returned to
See Housing, Page A8
See Bend, Page A8
Jim Critchley, retired
chief from arizona,
replaces Paul Berardi
on interim basis
By ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
See Chief, Page A8
her grandfather’s home in
Walla Walla “due to the
really extenuating circum-
stances of this case.” He
also said record tsosie’s
mother was in the court-
room, and her father lived
in Walla Walla.
record tsosie coop-
erated with the police in
EO Media
group takes over
ownership of Bend
paper on sept. 1
Pendleton
hires interim
fire chief
PENdLEtON — as it has
for most years since 2010, the
Pendleton Fire department is
bringing in a new person to
lead it.
the city hired Jim Critchley,
a retired chief
for the tucson,
Arizona, fire
department, to
replace Paul
Berardi on an
interim basis.
reached
Critchley
for comment
on the road back to his native
Kansas City, Missouri, Berardi
said Pendleton was a great
town, but he decided against
applying for the permanent
position because most of his
family remains in the Midwest.
“it tugs at you after awhile,”
he said.
Berardi was hired as interim
chief in september 2018 and
indicated as recently as Feb-
ruary that he was interested
in staying long term, but he
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Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Jacob Edens carries a pocket door frame into a new home construction project in Umatilla Thursday after-
noon.
Umatilla officials
expect to add about
100 new housing
units a year for the
next 5 to 7 years
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
U
MatiLLa — Politi-
cal pundits may wring
their hands about rural
american communi-
ties in decline, but umatilla is
one small town that’s not going
anywhere.
the city of 7,320 has seen a
47% increase in population since
2000, according to the u.s. Cen-
sus Bureau, and Portland state
university’s population research
center predicts similar growth
in the next 20 years. City Man-
ager david stockdale expects
the community will add about
100 new housing units per year
for the next five to seven years.
“it’s not that growth is com-
ing to umatilla — it’s already
here,” he said. “We’re already
making plans for the growth
Staff photo by Ben Lonergan
Isaiah Aquilar fastens a 2 by 4 piece of lumber in a new home construc-
tion project in Umatilla.
we expect.”
For more a decade, the city
saw fewer than 20 new homes
per year. But in 2018 they issued
66 building permits. this year,
stockdale said, they have issued
38 and plan to issue another
20 next week, with almost five
months left in the year.
another developer is waiting
for the city to complete changes
to the development code before