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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
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Arrests and citations in
the Blue Mountain Eagle are
taken from the logs of law
enforcement agencies. Every
effort is made to report the
court disposition of arrested
listed.
nor passenger, both of Moses
Lake, Wash., were injured in
the crash.
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Meyer, 42, Mt. Vernon, for
driving uninsured, following
a vehicle crash into the John
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and Widows Creek Road, ar-
rested Russell Wayne Moore,
51, Redmond, for reckless
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Justin Alan Scheidegger, 20,
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of alcohol in his vehicle.
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arrested Matthew James Jen-
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driving under the influence
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arrested Tyler Bruce Byer,
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sion of methamphetamine. Grant County, and cited him
She was sentenced to jail for for possession of meth.
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• Civil papers processed:
• Warrants processed: 2
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elderly woman at Riverside
Mobile Home Park.
Jan. 4: 70-year-old woman
with chest pains; dispatched
for a woman who fell; dis-
patched for a man with pos-
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censes: 1
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counts of telephonic harass-
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Traffic slowly unsnarls after a Clark’s Disposal truck took a turn too tight coming
from the transfer station road onto Highway 26 and got stuck, stretching across
more than a lane. The Grant County Sheriff’s deputies responded, along with
Oregon Department of Transportation flaggers to control traffic while trucks
from Doug’s Towing and Frontier Equipment got the rig back on the road.
Undersheriff Todd McKinley said that fortunately the loaded garbage truck
didn’t tip clear over. Ice was not a factor in the incident, he said.
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Boardman to Heming-
way transmission line open
houses
When: Jan. 7, 5 p.m. to 8
p.m.
Where: Blue Mountains
Conference Center, 404
12th Street, La Grande
When: Jan. 8, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Where: Best Western Sun-
ridge Inn, 1 Sunridge Lane,
Baker City
When: Jan. 9, 5 p.m. to 8
p.m.
Where: Durkee Commu-
nity Hall, 28716 Old High-
way 30, Durkee
When: Jan. 12, 5 p.m. to
8 p.m.
Where: Four Rivers Cul-
tural Center, 676 SW 5th
Avenue, Ontario
said the utility is simultane-
ously going through a process
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Energy to gain approval for the
project. The public will have an
opportunity to comment in Or-
egon’s process once the utility
has completed its application.
J.R. Cook, director of a
group called the Northeast
Oregon Water Association
which represents water us-
ers in the area, said the route
initially proposed by Idaho
Power Company would not
have much of an impact on
irrigated agriculture in the
area. But an alternative route
proposed by federal agencies
in the draft environmental
document would cut through
valuable agricultural land.
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Grant County
Transportation District
has received
ConnectOregon V funds for a
Facility Enhancement project.
An open house for all licensed
contractors will be held on
Saturday, January 10th
at 11:00 a.m. to review project
details and get information.
Location: 229 NE Dayton St.,
John Day, OR.
Call 541-575-2370
for more information.
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Grant County
HEALTH
Department
528 E. Main, St. E,
John Day
Monday - Friday
8am - 5pm
Karen Triplett, FNP
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Federal agencies are seek-
ing input on the plan for a new
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line from the Boardman area,
to a substation southwest of
Boise.
The Bureau of Land Man-
agement and other agencies
are in the midst of an envi-
ronmental review of the Idaho
Power Company project, be-
cause roughly one-third of the
transmission line would pass
through federally managed
public lands. In addition to the
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and Bureau of Reclamation
also manage land along the
proposed route.
A draft environmental im-
pact statement that the BLM
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gestions for Idaho Power Com-
pany to alter the proposed route
in three locations to minimize
environmental impacts, in par-
ticular to avoid destruction of
sage grouse habitat.
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Fish and Wildlife Service on
whether to list the bird under
the Endangered Species Act,
although a recent bill passed
by Congress could delay that
decision. Federal lawmakers
attached a provision to a recent
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attempt to prevent the Interior
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money on rules to protect the
greater sage grouse and three
related birds, The Associated
Press reported.
The BLM also examined
the potential impacts of the
transmission line on agricul-
ture, historical resources in the
area such as the National His-
toric Oregon Trail and ongoing
use of public lands by Ameri-
can Indian tribes.
The project has been in the
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in 2010, proposed alternatives
that would take the line through
Grant County stirred strong
objections in public meetings.
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ized now, goes through Baker
and Malheur counties, but not
Grant.
The transmission line
would add capacity for times
of peak demand, and it is one
of the transmission projects
prioritized by the Obama ad-
ministration to improve the
power grid and allow for inte-
gration of more renewable en-
ergy sources, according to the
Bureau of Land Management.
Although the White House
wants to speed up permitting of
transmission projects, the proj-
ect still faces a lengthy approv-
al process.
The Bureau of Land Man-
agement is accepting com-
ments on the draft environ-
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The agency plans to analyze
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nal environmental document
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company begins construction
in 2018, it could complete the
project by 2020.
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communications
specialist
with Idaho Power Company,
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