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College Place Public Schools approves 2024-25 budget
COLLEGE PLACE – The College Place Public Schools Board of Directors approved the proposed budget for the 2024-2025 school year at its regular school board meeting Tuesday. The budget outlines a total revenue of $28,953,614 against total expenditures amounting to $31,851,854. The district will add a full-time licensed mental...
Pendletonian heads to the Olympics
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Pendleton native son Rob “Robby” Collins is at his first Olympics. He will be the swim coach for Peru at the games. Before he departed he talked about the long road that now sees him overseeing Peru’s two swimmers who qualified for the Olympic games.
OHA awarded $13M to allocate for substance use treatment & services
MEDFORD, Ore.- The Opioid Settlement Board is expanding Oregon’s access to substance use disorder treatment and services by allocating over $13 million to treatment programs and jails. These funds are awarded to the Oregon Health Authority, which will administer the funds throughout the state. Up to $9 million is...
Journalism camp is a place to learn, but also an opportunity to find your people
It’s Tuesday at the High School Journalism Institute. We’re almost at the halfway point and the students are starting to report on their stories. Also at this part of the week, students from all over the state are mingling and chatting at meals. They have inside jokes that...
Wildfire threats cause campfire bans at some state parks
The increasingly dry conditions in Oregon’s forests and grasslands, partially to blame for a rash of nearly a dozen large wildfires across the state, are now impacting state parks as well. The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department announced Tuesday, July 23, it has banned campfires at most state parks in response to the dry conditions, threatening wildfires and the strain on firefighter resources as the season progresses. Campfires have been...
Avangrid Begins Largest Solar Grazing Operation in the Pacific Northwest
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 23, 2024-- Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR), a leading sustainable energy company and member of the Iberdrola Group, has partnered with a fifth-generation Oregon rancher to graze sheep at two solar farms in Oregon and Washington, and launched the largest “solar grazing” operation in the region. Solar grazing is a vegetation management method used at solar energy facilities that uses grazing livestock, like sheep, instead of machinery. Sheep are effective at limiting the growth of weeds and vegetation, cutting down on wildfire risks while replacing the use of gas-powered machines. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240723512197/en/ Sheep graze at Pachwáywit Fields solar farm in Oregon (Photo: Business Wire)
Thousands of Oregon households may be eligible for $120 per child for summer groceries
During summer months, many families lose access to school food programs that are essential to their budget. However, some 30,000 children may be eligible for extra food assistance over the summer break, the state says. To be eligible for “Summer EBT,” children must:. Attend a school participating in...
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