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SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2015
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Learning how to perform a musical
Drama class to present ‘Beauty and
the Beast Jr.’ Monday and Tuesday
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Monday and Tuesday at the Hermiston Conference Center.
‘FISH ON’
TODAY’S WEATHER
Partly cloudy
High: 65º Low: 36º
OUTLOOK
• SUNDAY
Mainly sunny
High: 69º Low: 42º
• MONDAY
Partly cloudy
High: 79º Low: 46º
A complete weather forecast is
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John Addleman, center, Oregon City, Á anked by friends, hauls a spring Chinook salmon he caught back to the river to get it wet Thursday afternoon on the
Columbia River below McNary Dam.
McNary Dam serves
local anglers well
Find the Hermiston Herald on
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BREAKING NEWS
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SEE DONATION/A9
center’s noon lunch with a
Local couple gives
$20,000 to Stanfield
Senior Center
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Laura and Milton Casper, both 84, Hermiston, donated $20,000 to the Stan-
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