August 28, 2009 03:58 pm
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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?
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August 28, 2009 03:49 pm
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 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 La Grande Police are still seeking leads in their investigation of
the theft of money Wednesday from the Eat & Run convenience stop at
2310 Island Avenue.
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.
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August 28, 2009 03:43 pm
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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.
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August 27, 2009 02:32 pm
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 The swarm of honeybees came from these bee boxes located about 100 feet off of Downs Road. - Submitted Photo Thousands of bees attacked a local resident near the Northeast Oregon Interagency Fire Center Tuesday afternoon.
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.
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August 27, 2009 02:19 pm
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 Cory Carman and husband David Flynn with their children — Roan, 4, and Ione and Emmett, 2. - Submitted photo The Carman Ranch outside of Wallowa is a fourth-generation cattle ranch. But that doesn’t mean they are doing things the same old way there.
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.
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August 26, 2009 02:35 pm
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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.
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August 26, 2009 02:33 pm
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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.
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August 26, 2009 02:32 pm
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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.’’
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August 25, 2009 04:08 pm
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 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 With some help from Oregon Housing and Community Services, the Meyer Memorial Trust and the Ford Family Foundation, Community Connection of Northeast Oregon is having an easier time these days getting good, nutritious food to people who need it.
The non-profit social service agency that serves Union, Wallowa, Baker and Grant counties recently added equipment for transport and storage of perishable goods.
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August 24, 2009 02:33 pm
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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.
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