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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2016
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No charges
in Hermiston
shooting
Case forwarded
to DA’s offi ce
By JENNIFER COLTON
Staff Writer
A Hermiston man was
shot just after midnight on
Wednesday, but no charges
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The case was forwarded
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Kim Bales, left, and her daughter Berlyn Bales stand behind the counter at Echo Ridge
Cellars’ new tasting room in a former grain elevator outside Echo.
ELEVATING
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A ladder ascends past the original wooden walls of
the old Echo grain elevator that has been repurposed
as a tasting room for Echo Ridge Cellars.
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second to right. Garcia brought in the painting with his daughter Debbie Thorton and son-in-law Dave
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Assaults drive violent crime rate higher
Hermiston Police
reports quarterly
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