From the editor’s desk
Published 8:00 am Saturday, December 10, 2022
- Mr. and Mrs. Claus travel in style down down Adams Avenue during the holiday parade and tree lighting on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. The parade traveled from Hemlock Street to Max Square for the tree lighting and caroling.
A good assumption for readers would be as Christmas rolls into view the area news cycle — other than recognition of the holiday season is going strong locally — would soften.
That’s’ not been the case.
A La Grande man who was arrested after exposing himself to a 3-year-old out on bail. Eastern Oregon University says enrollment is down 5%. Down in Harney County, a state judge puts the brakes on implementation of a recently voter-approved gun law. The annual Festival of Trees in La Grande may have set a record, raising more than $75,000 for scholarships and community organizations and projects.
Even as we close in on the holidays, there is plenty of news.
That’s good for us, obviously, but even better for you, the reader. Our scope of readers can count on The Observer staff to work diligently to ensure that all of that news gets covered and ends up for the reader to access either online or via our print products.
The truth is there is a lot going on in our little corner of Oregon. That’s why we attempt to meticulously cover each story that crops up and why we believe that our news product is second to none.
There is, indeed, a lot going on and we’ll do our best to get it covered.
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If you missed one or more issues of The Observer this week, here are a couple of stories you might have missed.
Reporter Dick Mason had a feature on a recently completed socioeconomic report that provides a snapshot of the 14 Oregon and Washington counties within the area of the Wallowa-Whitman, Umatilla and Malheur national forests.
Reporter Isabella Crowley has the latest on the La Grande City Council penning a letter to Gov.-elect Tina Kotek about its dissatisfaction with a law that decriminalized certain illegal narcotics. La Grande took a page from the Ontario City Council’s playbook.
OTEC, the member-owned cooperative that serves parts of Baker, Union, Grant and Harney counties, is keeping its power rates steady for a third straight year.
Chuck Sarrett, a La Grande-based forestry consultant, was honored as Operator of the Year for Eastern Oregon by the Oregon Board of Forestry.
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