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Lady Buffs at LaGrande
Klamath withdraws
from water deal
Yvonne Iverson/Spilyay
The Madras High School Lady Buffs take the LaGrande High School court for the OSAA Playoff game. At
halftime of the game, LaGrande was up by 4 points (36-32), but the Buffs were outscored 15-2 in the third
quarter, and had players in foul trouble. The final score was 43-65 and the LaGrande Lady Tigers advanced to
the State Tournament.
13 arrested in stolen artifacts scheme
T A L L A H A S S E E , Fla.
(AP) — Eleven people from
Florida and two from G eor
gia have been charged in what
state investigators called a
crim inal conspiracy to sell
artifacts stolen from state-
owned lands in Florida.
Florida Fish and Wildlife
C onservation Com m ission
officers Wednesday described
a nearly $2 million black mar
ket in illegal historical artifacts.
Item s show n at a news
conference in Tallahassee in
cluded dozens o f arrowheads
and pot shards. But many sto
len artifacts likely will never
be recovered.
“This looting didn’t just
take a rtifa cts fro m th e
ground,” said Robert Bendus,
Florida’s state historic pres
ervation officer. “It took his
tory away from this genera
tion and from future genera
tions o f Floridians.”
BI A official says progress
made at Spirit Lake
F O R T T O T T E N , N.D.
(AP) — A top Bureau o f In
dian Affairs official says the
agency is making progress in
addressing child abuse and
neglect on the Spirit Lake
R eservation in N o rth D a
kota.
B ut Larry R oberts also
says looming federal budget
cuts could jeopardize funding
for social services and law
enforcem ent across Indian
Country.
Roberts is a deputy assis
tant secretary with the Inte
rior Department. H e was one
o f the federal officials who
met with reservation residents
Wednesday for a discussion
about what the BIA has done
since taking over child pro
tection services last fall. That
happened after criticism that
the tribe had failed* to protect
vulnerable children.
House without tumult
Christian nonprofit seeks
to expand Wasco Co. camp
(AP) — A Christian-oriented
camp on land formerly oc
cupied by followers o f Indian
g u ru
B hagw an
S hree
Rajneesh wants to expand but
needs state lawmakers’ ap
proval.
S upporters are pushing
House Bill 3098 which would
allow Young Life to expand.
The nonprofit group owns
and o p erates W ashington
Family Ranch.
The camp was donated to
the group in the 1990s after
R ajneeshpuram was ab an
doned and fell into foreclo
sure.
The 62,000-aCre camp is
looking to expand by an ad-
The 35-yeâr-old Lebeaux
had served as cultural coor
dinator for T hunder Valley
C om m unity D ev elo p m en t
Corp. The possession charge
carries-a maximum sentence
o f 10 years in prison. Sen
tencing is set for March 18.
Lebeaux is being held with
out bond in the Pennington
County Jail.
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T he FW C’s Maj. Curtis
B row n said those arrested
were the “main dealers and
looters.” The youngest defen
dant is 25; the oldest is 74.
“This netw ork is a very
tight-knit group o f folks,”
Brown said. “They had col
lectors they dealt w ith and
they’d sell around the state
and around the country.”
Brown confirmed that the
investigation is ongoing.
Tucker added that there is
KLAMATH FALLS (AP)
— The Klamath County Board a good chance the four dams
o f Commissioners has voted will be rem oved anyway if
to withdraw from an agree the owner, PacifiCorp, seeks
a new operating license from
m ent th at lays out how to
share scarce water between federal regulators.
Greg Addington, executive
fish and farms, control power
costs for irrigators, and re • director o f the Klamath Wa
store broken down ecosys ter Users Association, added
that the county should bring
tems.
T he board voted 3-0 to its complaints about the res
have the county’s lawyer draw to ratio n agreem ent to the
up an order to drop out o f table, w here the 41 o th er
the Klamath Basin Restora groups — tribes, salmon fish
tion Agreement, with plans to ermen, conservationists, lo
vote on it again next week.
cal governments, and irriga
The agreement is a com tors — that have signed it will
panion to an historic deal to give them serious consider
remove four small hydroelec ation.
Members o f the previous
tric dams on the K lam ath
River in Oregon and N orth commission signed the agree
ern California to help restore ment and voted to renew it
before leaving office last year.
struggling wild salmon runs.
Two other signatories o f Newly elected m em bers o f
the agreement m the Karuk the commission campaigned
Tribe and the Klamath Wa on a platform o f getting the
ter Users Association — say co u n ty o u t o f th e ag ree
the county can't pull out, be m ents, expressing reserva
cause the agreement is a bind tions a b o u t rem oving the
ing contract that was just re dam s, the im pacts o n the
county’s economy and water
newed for two more years.
“T h e K lam ath C ounty
storage.
T h e c o u n ty has b een
Commissioners are trying to
put their own community on locked in a battie for decades
a disaster course,” said Craig over sharing water between
Tucker, Klamath coordinator farm s a n d en d a n g e re d
for the K aruk Tribe. “I f the salmon and sucker fish. Irri
KBRA fails, there’s no way gation was shut down in 2001
to address the dramatic in to give the fish enough water
creases to irrigators’ power to survive. W hen irrigation
rates or create a soft landing was restored in 2002, tens of
for farmers when tribes use thousands of adult salmon died
their senior water rights to fill in the river before they could
swim upstream to spawn.
the lake and river.”
Nez Perce liquor bill passes
Reservation leader pleads
guilty to drug charges
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -
A former spiritual and cultural
leader on the Pine Ridge In
dian Reservation has pleaded
guilty to drug charges.
Je ro m e L ebeaux was
charged and pleaded guilty to
possession o f a controlled
substance and driving under
the influence o f a controlled
substance.
March 6, 2013
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The property straddles Wasco
and Jefferson counties north
o f Madras.
An official with the state
D epartm ent o f Lands, Jo n
Jinings, said the land is zoned
for farm and ranch activity
but it’s an “unusual situation”
because o f its past use.
BOISE (AP) - The House
quickly passed the N ez Perce
tribe's effort to win a liquor
license for its new convention
c e n te r o n the C learw ater
River. T he 51-19 vote was
absent tumult that accompa
nied the bill on its way through
the House State Affairs Com
mittee, where it passed by a
single vote.
N o t one representative
spoke in opposition.
The measure was brought
by the n o rth cen tral Idaho
tribe, to allow it to sell cock
tails at its casino, convention
center and 50-room hotel.
T he N ez Perce need an
exem ption, u n d er Id ah o 's
strict 1947 liquor law meant
tb prom ote temperance.
Rep. Marc Gibbs o f Grace
told the chamber during de
bate th at strict sideboards
would prevent any ’ ’runaway
use" o f this new exemption
to create num erous new li
quor licenses. T he bill now
heads to the Senate.
Notice of the Availability
of an Environmental Assessment
The USDA, Rural Development
has received an application for fi
nancial assistance from the Confed
erated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon. As required
by the National Environmental Policy
Act, Rural Developm ent has ap
proved an Environmental Assess
ment prepared by the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs that evalu
ated the potential environmental ef
fects and consequences of the pro
posed project. This notice an
nounces the availability of the Envi
ronmental Assessment for public re
view and comment, and USDA is
publishing this notice in accordance
with Section 106 of the NHPA review.
The proposed project consists of
construction of a new K-8 school in
Greeley Heights near the intersec
tion of East Tenino and C hukar
roads. The project will comply with .
all standards and best management
practices set forth in the Tribal Inte
grated Resource Management Plan
to avoid any adverse environmental
effects. A cultural resource site
known to be present in the area will
be protected by development and
implementation of an Inadvertent
Discovery Plan and further Tribal as
sessment before construction be
gins. Archaeological monitors will be
present during all earth disturbing
activities. The alternatives consid
ered to the proposed project include:
remaining at the current school lo
cation with its limited space and old
infrastructure, other locations in the
vicinity of the proposed location that
had topography limitations, and a
Warm Springs Campus location that
has old infrastructure and is zoned
commercial.
Copies of the Environmental As
sessment are available for review at
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ru
ral Development, Attn: State Environ
mental Coordinator, 1201 NE Lloyd
Blvd, S u ite 801, P o rtla n d , OR
97232-1274, or locally at the Tribal
Natural Resources Building, 4223
Holliday Street, Warm Springs, OR
97761. For further information con
tact Charlotte Rollier, State Environ
mental Coordinator, USDA Rural
Development, 503-414-3356. Any
person interested in commenting on
this proposed project should submit
comments to the USDA Portland ad
dress above by Friday, April 5, 2013.