UEC Building New Operations Center in Boardman
Because of ongoing expansion in the Boardman area, Umatilla Electric Cooperative will soon begin building a 23,970-square-foot operations center off Columbia Avenue, next to...
Delegation Wants Speedy Release of County Payments
Oregon Reps. Greg Walden, Peter DeFazio, Earl Blumenauer, Kurt Schrader, and Suzanne Bonamici today urged the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land...
College Rodeo Finals Set for Today, Saturday
The nationally-ranked Blue Mountain Community College rodeo team will host the Northwest Intercollegiate Rodeo Finals today and Saturday (May 1-2) at the Farm City...
Spring Chinook Season on Lower Columbia Re-Opens
Spring Chinook fishing on the lower Columbia River will re-open this weekend.
The Columbia River from Tongue Point/Rocky Point line upstream to Beacon Rock (boat...
Urban Renewal Agency to Hold Budget Meeting
The Hermiston Urban Renewal Agency’s budget committee will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. on May 13 at Hermiston City Hall.
The committee will...
Clara Brownell Student Council Receives Honor
Clara Brownell Middle School in Umatilla is one of nine middle schools and eight high schools receiving recognition as a high achieving student council.
The...
Fair Names Day Camp Logo Winner
Fourth grader Emily Smith of Rocky Heights Elementary School in Hermiston has won Umatilla County’s Fun at the Fair Day Camp logo contest.
Fair officials...
Hermiston Approves Engineering Contract
The city of Hermiston approved a contract with Anderson Perry & Associates to provide engineering services for the city.
The city had been employing the...
Annexation Clears Way for New Subdivision
The Hermiston City Council voted Monday night to annex two acres of land near S.W. 10th Street that paves the way for a single-family...
Wyden Demands Hanford Investigation
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., demanded an investigation into the contracting practices at the Department of Energy’s Hanford nuclear site in Washington State and...
Student-Built Home to Go Up for Sale June 2
The Hermiston School Board unanimously approved the sale of Fieldstone #1, the first of 11 student-built homes located on West Angus Ave.
Deputy Superintendent Wade...
Residents Turn in More Than 60 Tons of Junk
The Hermiston area is a lot cleaner this week after Saturday’s “Hermiston Clean Sweep” event hauled away more than 60 tons of hard to...
Ordinance Aims to Address Dogs Running at Large
According to city records, there are officially 103 dogs in Hermiston.
OK, there’s certainly a lot more than that, but in 2014, the city issued...
Council Selects Site for New Senior Center
New Building Will Be Called the Harkenrider Center
The city of Hermiston already had the money, now it has a site and name for the...
OSP Investigating Fatal Accident on Interstate 84
Oregon State Police troopers from the Pendleton Area Command are continuing the investigation into a fatal traffic crash that occurred early Sunday morning.
On Sunday,...
ODFW to Treat Area Trout Fisheries
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will host a series of public meetings in early May to discuss plans to treat several water...
ODFW to Truck Umatilla Spring Chinook Upriver
With water levels in the Umatilla River already reaching summer lows, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today it will begin transporting...
School District's Credit Rating Pays Off for Taxpayers
The Hermiston School District’s recently reaffirmed outstanding AA- (double A minus) credit rating from Standard and Poor’s Corporation paid big dividends during yesterday’s refinancing...
Hermiston Foods Celebrates 25 Years of Success
For a quarter century, Hermiston Foods has played a vital role in the town’s economy, but had it not been for a few determined...
City Dedicates Recycled Water Treatment Plant
A small ceremony on Thursday evening capped off one of Hermiston’s biggest infrastructure projects when city and chamber of commerce officials officially opened the...
