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129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Monday, Feb. 8:
Crook County cases: 721 (1 new case)
Crook County deaths: 16 (zero new deaths)
7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday
and holidays
SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
130
(Dec. 4)
What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new coronavirus. Coronavi-
ruses are a group of viruses that can cause a range of symptoms. Some usually
cause mild illness. Some, like this one, can cause more severe symptoms and
can be fatal. Symptoms include fever, coughing and shortness of breath.
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Jan. 31
due to state
computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
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at least 20 seconds. 2. Avoid touching your face. 3. Avoid close contact with
sick people. 4. Stay home. 5. In public, stay 6 feet from others and wear a cloth
face covering or mask. 6. Cover a cough or sneeze with a tissue or cough into
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Judge halts Proud Boy’s release in Capitol breach case
BY GENE JOHNSON
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — The self-de-
scribed “sergeant-at-arms” of
the Seattle chapter of the far-
right group Proud Boys will
remain in custody for now
pending charges filed in con-
nection with the riot at the U.S.
Capitol.
Magistrate Judge Brian
Tsuchida in Seattle initially
said Monday that 30-year-old
Ethan Nordean should be re-
leased pending trial, rejecting
the government’s arguments
that he posed a danger to the
community and was a flight
risk. But Tsuchida then halted
his own decision and gave the
Justice Department time to
appeal.
Within hours, an appeal had
been filed, and U.S. District
Judge Beryl Howell in Wash-
ington, D.C., further blocked
Nordean’s release pending a
review. She also directed U.S.
marshals to transport Nordean
to the District of Columbia to
face the charges against him.
The Proud Boys are an ex-
tremist and male-chauvinist
organization known for brawl-
ing with “antifa” demonstra-
tors. At least eight defendants
Carolyn Kaster/AP file
Ethan Nordean, with backward baseball hat and bullhorn, leads members of the far-right group Proud Boys
in marching before the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Nordean, 30, of Auburn, Washington, has described
himself as the sergeant-at-arms of the Seattle chapter of the Proud Boys.
linked to the group have been
charged in the Capitol riot.
Nordean of Auburn, Wash-
ington, also goes by the name
Rufio Panman and has de-
scribed himself as the sergeant-
at-arms and as the president of
the Proud Boys’ Seattle chapter.
He was arrested last week
after being charged in federal
court in Washington, D.C.,
with obstructing an official
proceeding, aiding and abet-
ting others who damaged fed-
eral property and knowingly
entering or remaining in a
restricted building. Obstruct-
ing an official proceeding, the
most serious of the charges,
carries a possible sentence of
up to 20 years in prison. Nor-
dean has not entered pleas to
any of the charges.
The Justice Department
said Nordean helped plan the
Proud Boys’ actions at the Cap-
itol, marched at the front of a
group of Proud Boys shortly
before the Jan. 6 riot and broke
into the Capitol building with
other members of the group.
He was near the front of the
mob that confronted vastly
outnumbered Capitol Police
officers, prosecutors said.
In asking for him to remain
in custody, Assistant U.S. At-
torney Jehiel Baer noted that in
the days before the riot, Nor-
dean posted on social media
saying, “Let them remember
the day they decided to make
war with us,” as well as a photo
of himself with the words,
“And fight we will.”
Baer noted that Nordean
gained notoriety for knocking
out a counterprotester in 2018
in Portland, an event that was
captured on video and which
garnered him a guest appear-
ance on conspiracy theorist
Alex Jones’ “InfoWars” pro-
gram.
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School reopenings
Redmond high schoolers
to attend four half-days
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
Nearly 1,500 Redmond and
Ridgeview high school stu-
dents will be on campus four
days a week, rather than two,
when they return to in-person
learning Feb. 22.
But students will only be in
the building for three hours
per day.
Redmond School District
always planned to split its stu-
dent populations in half, but
the original plan had half the
students in-person on Mon-
days and Thursdays, and the
other half on Tuesdays and
Fridays.
Now, half of the high school-
ers will attend in-person class
from 7:30 a.m. to 10:20 a.m.,
with the other half in the build-
ing from noon to 3 p.m. four
days of the week, the district
announced Monday. Students
will spend the second half of
the day learning remotely.
All students will learn from
home on Wednesdays, as origi-
nally planned.
The afternoon group will
not have district-provided
transportation, the release
stated. All students who indi-
cated needing transportation
in a district-issued survey,
will be placed in the morn-
ing group, said school district
spokesperson Sheila Miller.
The morning group will be
offered a to-go lunch as they’re
leaving the building, Miller
said. Afternoon students will
get lunch right as they enter
and eat in the commons area of
the building, with school staff
enforcing social-distancing
rules, she said.
This rule change will allow
students to learn in-person
more days of the week, bene-
fiting their mental well-being
and reducing screen fatigue,
the release stated.
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Lottery results can now be found on
the second page of Sports.
Umatilla County agrees to take on
chemical depot site of 1944 explosion
East Oregonian
Umatilla County has ex-
pressed a willingness to be re-
sponsible for a historical site at
the former Umatilla Chemical
Depot. The county has agreed
to take over preservation and
maintenance for the site where
six workers died when a con-
crete bunker, called an igloo,
where bombs were stored ex-
ploded on March 21, 1944.
In Hermiston, the blast sent
shock waves rippling through
the city, shattering plate-glass
windows downtown and
knocking merchandise off
store shelves, according to the
Hermiston Herald.
The Army is in the process
of turning the former depot
over to local control, and when
the transfer is complete, the
A worker in-
side an igloo
at the Uma-
tilla Ord-
nance De-
pot stacks
500-pound
bombs sim-
ilar to the
ones that
exploded in
March 1944.
EOU expands to offer
cybersecurity degree
East Oregonian
LA GRANDE — One
wrong click can land small
businesses or local govern-
ments in the hands of a nasty
computer virus, but a new
program at Eastern Oregon
University equips students to
come to the rescue.
The university has ex-
panded its computer sci-
ence department to include
a bachelor’s degree in cy-
bersecurity. Students in the
program can earn a Bach-
elor of Arts or Bachelor of
Science on campus or on-
line.
Students with an Associ-
ate of Applied Science de-
gree in cybersecurity from
a community college can
transfer their entire tran-
script and earn a Bachelor
of Applied Science in just
two years.
Kiel Wadner, an EOU
instructor and cybersecurity
professional, said classes
will focus on experiential
learning that prepares grad-
uates to meet an organiza-
tion’s digital security needs.
“Cybersecurity is about
protecting information and
the systems that deal with
that information,” he said. “I
spend a lot of time writing
little pieces of code or star-
ing at logs from computer
systems looking for anom-
alies, and what I do is actu-
ally a very small piece of cy-
bersecurity.”
He explained that, simi-
lar to medicine, cybersecu-
rity is a broad industry with
a range of specialists who
develop specific skill sets.
EOU’s program is trans-
fer-friendly, leaving room
for students to follow their
interests and shape their
own specializations.
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Courtesy the
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Herald
county has agreed to take over
preservation and maintenance
responsibilities for the site of
the explosion.
Greg Smith, director of
the Columbia Development
Authority — a partnership
between five local govern-
ment entities — told Umatilla
County commissioners the
plan is to provide public access
to the historical site.
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