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TRICK OR TREAT
WE’VE GOT ALL THE BEST
PLACES TO CELEBRATE
HALLOWEEN.
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PARTY AT SUNSET
HERMISTON CELEBRATES
WINNING A NEW
PLAYGROUND WEDNESDAY.
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BY THE WAY
Another look at
traffi c downtown
New businesses and a
soon-to-open high school
parking lot are forcing the
city to re-evaluate adding
stop signs downtown.
After Hermiston busi-
ness owner Cynthia Tra-
ner requested that the
city put a four-way stop at
the corner of Third Street
and Locust Avenue, the
city’s engineers advised
after a traffi c study that
adding another set of stop
signs would not improve
safety and could cause
crashes as people rolled
through without stopping.
However, on Monday the
council voted to perform
a new traffi c study in the
spring after new business-
es around the intersection
have time to build up a
larger customer base and
Hermiston School Dis-
trict opens a new parking
lot on the former fair-
grounds. Assistant city
manager Mark Morgan
said the parking lot will
have an entrance at Or-
chard Avenue and Fourth
Street nearby, starting in
January, and that could
affect traffi c fl ows in the
neighborhood.
See BTW, A18
WAR ON 84 | HERMISTON AT PENDLETON, FRIDAY 7 P.M.
ONE FOR
THE ROAD
Hermiston travels to
Pendleton Friday for
fi nal rivalry game
By ALEXIS MANSANAREZ
STAFF WRITER
O
n Friday night, the
“War on 84” will
have one last victor.
When Hermiston
and Pendleton meet
on the Round-Up grounds one last
time it will be an equally matched
showdown, which hasn’t always
been the case in their 95-year rival-
ry.
A win for Pendleton will give
the Buckaroos their fi rst playoff
berth since 2014, but a win for
Hermiston will mean more than
just a chance at another state title. A
win would cap off an all-time series
that has only been in the Bulldogs’
favor recently.
Over the years, league titles,
winning records, and playoff berths
have all been on the line, which
adds to the richness of the rivals’
unique history that has outlasted six
major wars and eclipsed nine de-
cades. This will be the two teams’
92nd meeting, with Hermiston only
taking the upper hand in the recent
millennium and winning eight of
the last 13 games.
“The rivalry was a big brother,
little brother type of thing,” said
Paul Barnett. “Finally, we were
able to compete against them. For
years it was a game we circled
HH FILE PHOTO
Matt Hall takes a victory ride around
the Pendleton Round-Up Grounds on
the shoulders of fellow sophomore
Pat Carter after the Hermiston
Bulldogs beat the Pendleton
Buckaroos, 27-14, in 1984 for fi rst
time since 1922.
RIVALRY NO MORE
Hermiston grad Daniel Wattenburger reminisces
about the football rivalry with Pendleton | A7
GO DAWGS!
Show your spirit with our handy banner | A15
on the calendar and we’d hope to
come out with a win”
Barnett was a part of the Class
of 2000 and traveled with the varsi-
ty team his sophomore year (1997)
and senior year (1999) — both
years Hermiston came away with
a victory at the Round-Up grounds.
In fact, every Barnett that went
on to play for Hermiston never lost
a rivalry game. Paul was the oldest
to make his way through Hermis-
ton’s football program, and when
his brothers reached high school
the Bulldogs were no longer the
underdog.
But it wasn’t always like this.
Many begrudgingly remember the
Bulldogs’ 62-year skid where even
in winning seasons they weren’t
able to top the Buckaroos.
When the pair met for the fi rst
time in 1922, Hermiston claimed
the fi rst ever bragging rights. But
as seasons came and went the Bull-
dogs stopped celebrating.
Despite successful seasons and
blowouts over numerous teams, the
Bulldogs couldn’t get anything go-
ing when it came time to face the
Bucks.
The closest game during the
winless drought was in 1941 when
the game ended in a tie — the only
tie in rivalry’s long history.
Prior to this meeting, Pendle-
ton was nothing but dominant and
highlighted its run by winning
eight consecutive games by a shut-
out from 1929-38.
The decades without a win were
draining, which made the rivalry all
See RIVALRY, A18
The Hermiston Bulldogs
football team stand for the
National Anthem before their
62-14 win against Redmond
on Friday in Hermiston.
STAFF PHOTO BY E.J. HARRIS