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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL FEBRUARY 21, 2018 5A Cottage Grove Retrospective A look back at Sentinel stories from 30 and 60 years ago The front page on Feb. 24, 1988 referral hotline will be answered 24 hours a day and when they are available, volunteers will answer calls from their homes. Cuts: Council sets public hearings Cottage Grove city counselors opted for a public hearing on proposed budget cuts before making fi nal recommendations in the face of a $350,000 shortfall in city funds for the 1988-1989 budget. City man- ager Bill Bixby outlines a budget reduction plan t council members at Monday’s regular meeting. The city’s task is to balance next year’s budget that contains $350,000 fewer dollars than are necessary to fund current programs. SLTV may receive new translators Negotiations between South Lane Tele- vision Inc. (SLTV) and the three Eugene network affi liates could result in three new translators worth a total of at least $60,000 being placed in Cottage Grove. SLTV board members are working on an agreement to get the local network stations, KMTR, KVAL AND KEZI, to pay for the purchase and installation of new translators and their future maintenance. The proposal calls for each network station to place a new transla- tor on Hanson Butte, where SLTV currently operates translators for seven stations for local viewers. Helpline house increase as Community Sharing expands As part of an ongoing expansion toward 24-hour service, Community Sharing’s Helpline has called upon Cottage Grove An- swering Service. Beginning this week, calls to the crisis intervention and information POLICE BLOTTER National Beat Hunters say goodbye to Cottage Grove Bill and Linda Hunter announced their move to Gresham after Bill, publisher of The Sentinel for fi ve years, accepted a job offer as publisher of the Gresham Outlook. An exerpt from Hunter's last "Editor's Notebook" column: "My long last day as The Sentinel's pub- lisher was over. I remember feeling funny. I was both sad and excited. I guess that's a typical new job feeling... When I accepted a promotion last week to move to Gresham, it wasn't an easy decision. Cottage Grove has been good to Linda and me, and we both knew the "goodbye process" would be tough. Who would ever believe that two young college graduates, with only a gas credit card, a car payment, no furniture and little money would stay here 17 years."\ Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504 News from the state and around the nation From around the state • The Oregon State Legislature will take up the debate over net neutrality this month. House Bill 4155, a bill that would prevent internet providers from sell- ing customer information, will be tagged with an amendment focusing on restoring net neutrality. The bill comes after a handful of governors around the country have signed executive orders protecting net neutrality after federal protections were rolled back late last year. • Changes to the state constitution are being considered after democratic legislators proposed two changes to the document. One proposed alteration would make access to affordable health care a right while the other would allow municipalities to issue bonds for afford- able housing projects. • The 15-year-old boy who threw a fi recracker last summer, setting the Columbia River Gorge on fi re, has issued an apology. The boy, who’s identity is not being released by law enforcement, said that he thinks about his “terrible decision and its awful consequenc- es” every day and apologized to those who were forced from their homes. The teen was sentenced to more than 1,000 hours of community service and fi ve years probation. The fi re burned 48,000 acres. • Oregon lawmakers passed gun control legislation one day after a school shooting claimed the lives of 17 people. House Bill 4145 would ban individuals from owning a gun if they have domestic violence or stalking convictions. The state already has laws in place that deny guns to those with domestic abuse convictions but they did not extend to to abusers who did not live with or were not married to the victim. HB 4145 closes the “boyfriend loophole.” February 14 February 12 A man at Walmart reported that someone stole his binder An individual reported that while he was walking on the bike path between Walmart and I-5 he noticed four case emp- containing his birth certifi cate, social security number and his ty cases of bottled water, caps and water on the ground with resume. the bottles missing. He told Grocery Outlet what he saw but An individual on Gateway reported a disturbance after the staff told him that they had not had any recent shoplifts. seeing two men in a verbal dispute. A man on Blair Ct. requested to talk with an offi cer about a neighbor coming onto the property and harassing him and his roommate. February 16 A white cockatiel was found in a cage on 2nd St. and ap- pears to have been abandoned. A man on Main St. reported that his mail had been stolen and that a check had been taken and cashed in Roseburg. A man observed a group of kids hitting rocks with golf clubs toward a dog park. The individual was concerned that they might change direction and begin hitting them at empty vehicles. The man also noted that he saw them playing with gas. Multiple callers reported seeing a fi re on 12th St. An individual who refused to give their name or age re- quested to speak to an offi cer regarding age differences for Suspicious condition was reported when a man on Bryant dating. St. was yelling about selling meth and heroin. Two juveniles were seen with a rope around a duck on February 13 Quincy St. The individual believed that they were trying to steal the ducks but it turned out that they were trying to move A noise complaint was fi led on Hwy. 99 when a man heard the ducks to a safe location out of the roadway. loud noise from a space where he believed occupants were recently evicted. An individual reported that tonight for the second time someone has thrown a can of Red Bull in their yard. Criminal mischief was reported on Gateway Blvd. after a trailer appeared to have been broken into. From around the nation • Nikolas Cruz, 19, has been charged with multiple counts of pre-meditated murder after he entered Mar- jory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14 with an AR-15 and killed 17 peo- ple, injuring dozens more. Cruz, who had been re- ported to authorities multiple times and stated on his YouTube channel that he intended to kill people, was expelled from the school prior to the shooting and was not permitted on school property with a backpack. He purchased the fi rearm legally. Victims of the shooting ranged from 14 to 49-years-old and their deaths have sparked a national debate led by teen survivors of the shooting who have called on Congress and President Donald Trump to pass stricter gun control laws. • A series of storms swept across the country earlier this week dumping snow, ice and heavy rains that triggered winter storm alerts for 24 states. • The steady increase in fl u cases seems to have leveled off according to national health offi cials. Diagnosed cases of the fl u stayed relatively the same last week instead of increasing as they have each week since November. February 17 February 13 A woman on Ostrander Ln. reported that her windshield was smashed in overnight. A noise complaint was fi led on Hwy. 99 when a man heard loud noise from a space where he believed occupants were recently evicted. Criminal mischief was reported on Gateway Blvd. after a trailer appeared to have been broken into. February 18 An individual fi led a noise complaint when he heard three juvenile males on Main St. at 2:30 a.m. shouting and goofi ng around. An individual reported that they were rear-ended at a busi- ness on Gateway and the driver would not speak to her or roll down the window to talk. 6 -day weather forecast THURSDAY Feb. 22 FRIDAY Feb. 23 41° | 31° 43° | 32° Snow Partly cloudy SATURDAY Feb. 24 SUNDAY Feb. 25 43° | 34° 43° | 35° Snow Snow MONDAY Feb. 26 TUESDAY Feb. 27 44° | 29° 44° | 29° Showers Partly cloudy 60% of smalled businesses close their doors within 6 months following a cyber-attack. A burglary alarm was reported at Les Schwab early around 6:30 a.m. The building was checked and appeared to be se- cured. The delivery of the paper through the slot appears to have set off the alarm. 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