A6 Blue Mountain Eagle MONTH ¿UVWGHJUHH RI¿FLDO PLVFRQ duct. Gov. John Kitzhaber re Continued from Page A1 signed and was succeeded by Secretary of State Kate Nick Ballou opened Brown. Nick’s Barber Shop in John The Long Creek City Day. Council approved a condi The European ear snail tional use permit for Grant was found in the John Day County Fiber to operate a River system. VPDOOZRRG FKLSSLQJ IDFLOLW\ Jim Hamsher was sworn at the old mill site. in as Prairie City mayor. After a winter break, The U.S. Forest Service work resumed on John Day’s received support from the Main Street and Canyon Bou UHJLRQDO RI¿FH WR UHHQJDJH levard improvement project. with Eastern Oregon residents ‡ 0RQXPHQWDUHD UHVLGHQW before moving forward on a Roy Peterson was indicted on new forest plan. 10 charges stemming from the Greg Moon became the acquisition of equipment for a new ranger of Malheur Na ¿UHGLVWULFW tional Forest’s Prairie City Sheriff Glenn Palmer was District. named the county’s deputy medical examiner. February County Commissioner Irene Jerome, an inde Boyd Britton proposed that pendent forestry consultant in the Blue Mountains Forest Grant County, received one of Partners develop an alterna QDWLRQDO :LOG¿UH 0LWLJD tive forest plan revision. tion Awards. Grant School District Su ‡6WDWHRI¿FLDOVFRXQWHGDW perintendent Mark Witty ac least four breeding pairs of cepted the top job at the larger wolves for the third consec Baker School District. utive year among the packs Five members of the east of Highways 395, 78 and Grant County Public Access 95, triggering Phase II of the Advisory Board resigned in Wolf Management and Con protest, leaving two members servation Plan. on the board. Attorneys for Grant Shane Lee Sanders was County and Dean Hoodenpyl, sentenced to 73 months in director of the county’s com SULVRQIRUKLVODWHQLJKWVKRRW munity corrections depart ing spree last October at the ment, denied discrimination Timbers Inn and TV Park in during a Dec. 9, 2013, hiring Seneca. meeting. The Oregon parole board March ruled Sidney Dean Porter ‡ *UDQW 8QLRQ -XQLRU6H ZRXOGVSHQGDWOHDVW¿YHPRUH nior High School Principal years in prison for the killing Curt Shelley accepted the RI -RKQ 'D\ SROLFH RI¿FHU Grant School District superin Frank Ward in 1992. tendent position. Dong Cai’an, a school Buford Breland was principal from China, visited arrested in Mt. Vernon on Grant School District. charges of manufacture, de Former John Day Police livery and possession of Chief Richard Tirico pleaded methamphetamine. not guilty to two counts of Terry Hanson and Carla News Wednesday, December 30, 2015 Grant County Circuit Court Judge William Cramer ruled the search of a Seneca property for marijuana was conducted without a warrant or consent, dismissing cases against Joy Maxine Graves, Raymond Martin and Kenny Walters. County residents pressed the Grant County Court to take a stand against forest road closures. Ochoco Lumber Co. received a $25,000 grant to explore new biomass devel opment. Three local schools were placed on lockdown after an anonymous threat of violence that ended without incident. Eagle file photo Prairie City School Dis Nurse Nancy Jimenez, front right, and Grant trict Superintendent Ryan County Health Department manager Jessica Gerry was hired as the Grant Winegar showed Dr. Andrew Janssen and his 8QLRQ -XQLRU6HQLRU +LJK daughter Taya around the new health center at School Principal to start July Grant Union Junior-Senior High School in John 1. Day upon the center’s opening in May. The John Day City Coun FLOYRWHGDJDLQVWDEDQRQ Schroder, a Mt. Vernon cou for the second consecutive medical marijuana dispensa SOH ¿OHG WKH ¿UVW OLFHQVH IRU year. ries. VDPHVH[ PDUULDJH LQ *UDQW The Grant Union Gold Christal Culley was hon County. dance team placed second at RUHGDV2XWVWDQGLQJ1HZ+ The Grant Union Gold the OSAA State Dance and Educational Program As GDQFHWHDPSODFHG¿UVWDWWKH Drill Championships. sistant by the Oregon State Thurston High School compe Grant County settled a University College of Public tition. lawsuit with former Commu Health and Human Services. Malheur National Forest nity Corrections employee Grant County Chamber Supervisor Steve Beverlin James Gravley for $100,000. of Commerce launched its pledged to rescind a Septem The Oregon State Po Greenbacks program, sell ber 2014 road closure en lice bomb squad detonated a ing vouchers redeemable at forcement order by his prede KRPHPDGH ¿UHZRUNV GHYLFH chamber member businesses. cessor, review projects from found in a rental home in Prai Mitch Wilson opened WKHODVW¿YH\HDUVDQGSUHVHQW rie City. Wilson’s Welding and Fabri new orders to the county for The Grant Union band cation just west of John Day. review. won the Oregon Music Edu Leslie Weldon, deputy The Oregon Republican cation Association’s District 6 chief of national forest sys Party’s 2015 Dorchester straw large group festival for a third tems for the Forest Service, poll selected Wisconsin Gov. consecutive year. approved an expansion of the Scott Walker as the top candi Southern Blues Restoration date for the Republican Party April Coalition’s Collaborative in the 2016 presidential elec Oregon State Universi Forest Landscape Restoration tion. ty expert Seth Crawford says boundaries. ‡ *UDQW 8QLRQ -XQLRU6H Oregon’s growers could sup Reitta Wyllie, John Day, nior High School teacher ply the total United States was selected as the 2015 Elizabeth Shelley received an marijuana market on just Grant County Fair and Rodeo Inspirational Teacher award 5,000 acres. queen. Nugget Lanes bowling center in John Day closed. The Oregon State Police John Day Worksite was rec ognized for outstanding DUII enforcement. The John Day Liquor Store moved inside Chester’s Thriftway. Erin Osgood was hired as the new Grant County Veter DQV6HUYLFHV2I¿FHU May Blue Mountain Hospital hired Randall Mee as its new CEO to start in June. The People Mover public transportation service expand ed its coverage area to include routes to and from Monument. ‡ *UDQW 8QLRQ -XQLRU6H nior High School senior Mar ta Faulkner was awarded the &RQJUHVV%XQGHVWDJ