Boola Boola, Boola Boola, Boola Boola, Boola Boola.

Boola Boola, Boola Boola, Boola Boola, Boola Boo.

It doesn’t mean anything and yet the tune keeps playing itself over and over in my head. What made the tune pop into my awareness? What brought it forth when I wasn’t even thinking about school days?

HEIST SUSPECT: The man in the white T-shirt and shorts in this picture is being sought by police in the theft of money from the Eat & Run convenience store on Island Avenue Wednesday. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the La Grande Police Department, 541-963-1017. Submitted photo

Lt. Derick Reddington said this morning he hopes the public can help identify a man whose picture was taken by a surveillance camera during the heist.

“Right now, we’re at a dead end,” Reddington said.

Some details of the murders of Shannon Marie McKillop, Frank Scaramuzzi and Jeremiah Johnston emerged this week as the Union County District Attorney’s office released information on cause of death and said that evidence in the triple homicide will be presented to a grand jury.

McKillop’s dismembered body was discovered July 24 in a pond along Pumpkin Ridge Road in Elgin. Later, the bodies of Frank Scaramuzzi and Jeremiah Johnston were found in a wooded area near Darr Road north of of Elgin.

The swarm of honeybees came from these bee boxes located about 100 feet off of Downs Road. - Submitted Photo

Zach Gray, 18, swatted at a bee that stung the back of his neck, resulting in a swarm of bees stinging him more than 200 times.

Cory Carman and husband David Flynn with their children — Roan, 4, and Ione and Emmett, 2. - Submitted photo

Over the past six years the Carman family has been transitioning over to selling directly to restaurants in Portland and to consumers — eliminating the feedlot, packing house and distributor in the process.

The city of La Grande is looking for volunteers to serve on a search team to help select the next director of the F. Maxine and Thomas W. Cook Memorial Library.

The city announced Tuesday that Jo Cowling, who has been with the city since Jan. 15, 1984, is retiring.

The search team will include the La Grande Library Commission, one or two members of the current library staff, one member of the La Grande Community Library Foundation, one member of the city council, the library director of Eastern Oregon University, the city’s Community and Economic Development director and one to three at-large city residents.

Union County isn’t enjoying the big drop in unemployment that usually comes with summer, according to numbers released last week by the Oregon Employment Department.

Traditionally in summer the unemployment rate in the county falls. But this year, there was virtually no change between June and July, according to the Oregon Employment Department.

The county registered an 11 percent, non-seasonally adjusted jobless rate, a number identical to the month before, and also the highest for any July since the Oregon Employment Department started keeping records in 1962.

U.S. Forest Service crews were working this morning to put out a wildfire on Huckleberry Mountain north of Summerville.

Brett Thomas, district fire manager for the Umatilla National Forest, said the blaze, dubbed the Huckleberry Hound Fire, is likely a “holdover” from lightning strikes that hit the area two weeks ago.

“This one got a little active,” Thomas said. “If you were to draw a circle around it, it would be about 15 acres.’’

MOBILE PANTRY: Carmen Gentry, food bank manager for Community Connection of Northeast Oregon, shows off the refrigeration-equipped van that is a a key to the success of the Fresh Alliance Program. The van, purchased with funds from Oregon Housing and Community Services, is used to transport perishable products including fresh fruits and vegetables. - The Observer/BILL RAUTENSTRAUCH

The non-profit social service agency that serves Union, Wallowa, Baker and Grant counties recently added equipment for transport and storage of perishable goods.

A hearing on an appeal of a dog kennel license revocation took some interesting twists and turns last week, with the kennel owner possibly facing more problems than he started out with.

Brandon Boltz, who breeds Presa Canario dogs, keeps four of the animals on his 9-acre property along Palmer Junction Road in rural Elgin. In general, kennel permits are required in Union County for people who have more than three dogs.

Boltz had a permit for that location, and also one for property he owns in La Grande. Since he moved to Elgin, his Palmer Junction neighbors have lodged numerous complaints about his dogs barking.