Good Shepherd Offers Healthy Saturday Event
Good Shepherd Medical Center will offer its monthly Healthy Saturdays event on Saturday, May 9.
From 10 a.m. to noon, participants, at no charge, can...
Cinco de Mayo Draws Huge Crowd to Hermiston
Hermiston’s annual Cinco de Mayo celebration on Sunday was the biggest yet, but organizers have plans to make the party twice as big in...
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...
Hermiston Bark for Life Set for May 16
The fifth annual Hermiston Bark for Life fundraiser will be held on Saturday, May 16 at McKenzie Park.
The event gives dog owners and their...
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...
Thousands Expected for Hermiston's Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo organizers are expecting the biggest turnout ever on Sunday in downtown Hermiston.
The annual celebration will get under way at 11:30 a.m....
Blue Mountain Fiddlers to Put on Show in Stanfield
The Blue Mountain Olde Time Fiddlers will put on a show on Saturday, May 9 at the Stanfield Community Center.
Dinner will be available at...
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...
Senior Lunches Served at Umatilla Center on Fridays
The Umatilla School District is offering lunches for senior citizens each Friday at the Umatilla Center.
Lunches will be served from noon to 1 p.m....
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...
Chamber to Host Stetsons' Grand Opening
The Hermiston Chamber of Commerce will host a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for Stetsons Steak House on Friday, May 1.
The event will take...
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...
Chamber's Alive After 5 Set for Thursday
The Hermiston Chamber of Commerce will host an Alive After 5 event at Sheer Illusions, 611 E. Highland Ave., on Thursday, April 30.
The event...
