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AROUND OREGON: Warm Springs fights to preserve language as elders slip away
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs elders from front to back, Viola Govenor, 82, Marcia Minthorn, 78, Willard Tewee, 72, and Lonnie James, 63, in a classroom where native language is taught on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. (Dean Guernsey/Bend Bulletin) In a brightly lit classroom…
AROUND OREGON: Judge rules Ontario prison must enforce mask mandate, consider rapid tests for employees
Snake River Correctional Institution (File/Malheur Enterprise) ONTARIO – A state judge last week ordered officials at Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario to devise a plan to enforce mask use at the prison and to deploy mass testing after finding that the state’s treatment of…
AROUND OREGON: Grand Ronde tribe proposes larger environmental restoration area
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde on March 24 shared new renderings of its vision for the future of its culturally significant land next to Willamette Falls, the 23-acre former paper mill property. The Grand Ronde bought the property in August 2019. Newly released documents show…
AROUND OREGON: Criticism from all sides on Bureau of Reclamation’s plan for Klamath Basin
Upper Klamath Lake, pictured in 2020. (Herald and News photo) KLAMATH FALLS – Though the Bureau of Reclamation has yet to announce an official allocation to the Klamath Project for this summer, hydrologic projections for Upper Klamath Lake are looking worse by the day —…
AROUND OREGON: Work begins on new Detroit Community Center
This is an image of what the new Detroit Community Center will look like. Construction started this week. (Santiam Rebuild Coalition photo) DETROIT – Spirits were high in Detroit on Saturday, March 20, as the first steps were taken to erect the new Detroit Community…
AROUND OREGON: Website connects consumers to fresh Oregon-grown food
Canned vegetables on display at the Salem Saturday Market on opening day, March 6, 2021 (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) PORTLAND — Finding locally grown fresh food Oregon just became easier. Oregon Taste, a public service project of nonprofit James Beard Public Market, announced the launch of…
AROUND OREGON: Asian American leaders in Oregon react to Atlanta shootings: ‘I am scared for our community’
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Oregon have been on high alert for the past several months, as hate crimes and violence against those communities have increased nationally. Their fears were further realized Tuesday when eight people — including six Asian American women — were…
AROUND OREGON: Ranchers bullish after spring auctions
Cattle graze just over the hill, as seen against the winter sky in Malheur County. (Enterprise file photo) BAKER CITY – Many bids came in via a computer screen rather than from shouts at the sale ring, but Bob Harrell Jr. was still pleased to…
AROUND OREGON: Libraries shrug off Dr. Seuss book controversy
Portland-area libraries are taking the Dr. Seuss book controversy in stride. This isn’t new to libraries, say librarians. (Portland Tribune photo) PORTLAND – Dr. Seuss books always tickle His publisher put some in a pickle Decision to let books fade isn’t so humdrum Oh no!…