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.
State
Representatives
Oregon state representation
Senator Floyd Prozanski
District 4 State Senator
PO Box 11511
Eugene, OR 97440
Phone: (541)342-2447
E-Mail : sen.fl oydprozanski@state.or.us
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Oregon federal representation
Peter DeFazio (House of Representatives)
405 East 8th Ave.
#2030
Eugene, OR 97401
Email: defazio.house.gov/contact/email-peter
Phone: (541) 465-6732
Ron Wyden (Senator)
405 East 8th Ave., Suite 2020
Eugene, OR, 97401
Email: visit wyden.senate.gov
Phone: (541) 431-0229
Jeff Merkley (Senator)
Email: visit merkley.senate.gov
Phone: (541) 465-6750
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