Good Shepherd Announces Addition of Hospital-Based Dialysis Care
Good Shepherd Health Care System (GSHCS) announced on Tuesday that it has equipped its Critical Care Unit and Emergency Department to provide dialysis treatment,...
Second Street Gateway Improvement Project Begins This Week
Contractors will begin work this week on the Second Street Gateway Project at the intersection of S.E. Second Street and Highway 395 in Hermiston.
The project will realign...
Hermiston Customers to See Big Jump in Garbage Bill On April 1
Hermiston residents will pay 37 percent more each month for garbage service beginning April 1.
The Hermiston City Council on Monday voted to approve a...
Longtime Volunteers are Named Boardman’s Citizens of the Year
A pair of longtime volunteers are the Boardman Chamber of Commerce's citizens of the year.
Husband and wife Paul and Ruth Beagle received the recognition...
SMART Reading Program Seeks Community Volunteer Readers
SMART Reading invites volunteers to give one hour a week to help children read.
Volunteers with the children’s literacy program will be placed at a...
Fresh, Not Fast: Stanfield’s Broken Barrel Now Under New Ownership
Though Gena and Brandon Clayton, who have 30 years of experience as restaurant managers between them, did not set out to own a business,...
Salmon Return to McKay Creek Near Pendleton After Three Decades
Salmon are spawning for the first time in nearly 30 years in McKay Creek, a tributary of the Umatilla River near Pendleton.
The spawning is...
Three Hermiston Babies Beat Long Odds by Being Born on Leap Day
The chances of being born on Leap Day are about 0.06 percent, but three Hermiston babies beat those odds by being delivered Thursday at...
Cause of Hermiston Shop, Camp Trailer Fire Under Investigation
No injuries were reported Thursday in a shop and trailer fire on N. Townsend Road in Hermiston.
Umatilla County Fire District #1 was dispatched at...
Residents Sue Port of Morrow, Businesses for Water Contamination
By Alex Baumhardt/Oregon Capital Chronicle
Several residents of Boardman in northeast Oregon are suing the Port of Morrow and businesses for contaminating their drinking water,...
High School Senior Sets Sights on Job of Hermiston Mayor
What were you doing during your senior year in high school? Maybe prepping for your SATs or looking at job prospects. Or maybe you...
Authorities Reveal Identity of Woman Found Dead in Milton-Freewater
A woman found dead in Milton-Freewater has been identified as 20-year-old Shelby Lynn Cunningham.
Cunningham was previously reported as a missing person out of Milton-Freewater.
On...
Hermiston Standoff Ends Peacefully
A police standoff ended Monday night, Feb. 26, in Hermiston, with two arrests, including a man the U.S. Marshals Service was after.
The Umatilla County...
Hermiston Voters May Get Third Shot at Approving Pot Sales in Town
The Hermiston City Council will decide on whether to allow city residents another chance to legalize sales of marijuana inside city limits following a...
Area High School Students to Represent UEC at D.C. Youth Tour
Umatilla Electric Cooperative has announced that two local high school juniors have been chosen as the delegates for an all-expenses paid trip to Washington...
Ceremonial Signing Celebrates Historic Columbia River Basin Pact
Delegates representing the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) visited the White House on Feb. 23 for a ceremonial signing of the...
Morrow County Prepares for Interim Ambulance Services
As the March 12 deadline looms for Morrow County before everything — or maybe nothing — changes, over 100 people joined the Wednesday, Feb....
AARP Offers Free Tax Preparation Assistance in Hermiston, Lexington
The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program is available beginning in February in Hermiston and Lexington.
People do not have to be an AARP member to utilize...
Lawsuit Over Shearer’s Foods Fire in Hermiston Seeks $90 Million
Insurers of the Shearer’s Foods plant that burned down in 2022 in Hermiston are seeking more than $90 million in a lawsuit.
Attorneys filed the...
American Legion Member’s Ingenuity Makes Putting Up Flags A Breeze
Just before 8 a.m. this morning, a small crowd gathered on Main Street in Hermiston to prepare to put up American flags along Main...
