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How a 'once in a century' broadband investment plan could go wrong

Jul 3, 2024 | bendbulletin.com | Neil Nisperos

By Neil Nisperos/Blue Mountain Eagle, file Starting next week, California residents have 30 days to challenge maps that will determine how $1.8 billion is distributed to increase internet access in the state. Actually getting the California Public Utilities Commission to accept changes to the federal maps is quite difficult, which internet access advocates with educational backgrounds are raising alarm over.
New owners add tires to John Day auto repair service

Jul 2, 2024 | bluemountaineagle.com | Neil Nisperos

JOHN DAY — Bryan and Courtney Montague, owners of Frontier Point S Tire & Auto Service, have been busy with customers since acquiring the business at the beginning of the year. Formerly known as Doug’s Motor Vehicle Repair and Towing, the business at 130 S. Canyon Blvd. in John Day offers full auto maintenance and repair services in addition to a wide selection of tires. The Montagues also own Frontier Repair & Towing and Frontier Rental at 250 E.
New owners add tires to John Day auto repair service

Jul 1, 2024 | eastoregonian.com | Neil Nisperos

JOHN DAY — Bryan and Courtney Montague, owners of Frontier Point S Tire & Auto Service, have been busy with customers since acquiring the business at the beginning of the year. Formerly known as Doug’s Motor Vehicle Repair and Towing, the business at 130 S. Canyon Blvd. in John Day offers full auto maintenance and repair services in addition to a wide selection of tires. The Montagues also own Frontier Repair & Towing and Frontier Rental at 250 E. Main Street in Mt. Vernon, which they bought in 2018.
Grant County Court adopts $101.54 million budget for 2024-25

Jul 1, 2024 | bluemountaineagle.com | Neil Nisperos

CANYON CITY — The Grant County Court on June 26 unanimously voted to adopt a county budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year totaling $101.54 million, after three months of budget committee deliberation. The adopted budget includes an $11.7 million general fund, cash on hand of $6.1 million, an unappropriated general fund ending balance of $4.5 million and an operating contingency fund of $164,180. The unappropriated general fund is a savings fund that cannot be touched in this budget year.
Mt. Vernon man indicted on child sex abuse charges

Jun 28, 2024 | bluemountaineagle.com | Neil Nisperos

CANYON CITY — Glen Wadley, 59, of Mt. Vernon, was arraigned on a grand jury indictment on Thursday, June 27, in Grant County Circuit Court. Wadley now faces 17 counts, most of them alleging sex crimes against a child, including multiple counts of first-degree rape, sodomy and unlawful sexual penetration. kAm%96 :?5:4E>6?E 25565 EH@ >:D56>62?@C 4@F?ED @7 >6?24:?8 4@?DE:EFE:?8 5@>6DE:4 G:@=6?46 E@ E96 =:DE @7 `d @C:8:?2= 492C86D E92E H6C6 7:=65 2E 9:D @C:8:?2= 2CC2:8?>6?E 962C:?8 @?
Ranchers worry over flood damage from John Day River erosion

Jun 27, 2024 | capitalpress.com | Neil Nisperos

MT. VERNON, Ore. — Ranchers in Mt. Vernon are expressing concern about the possibility of flood damage to properties south of the John Day River. The river has been cutting into the bank in the vicinity of the Ingle Street Bridge for at least half a decade, according to locals, and the situation got worse last January, when a heavy snow melt-off widened the river at that point from 50 feet to 500 feet. kAm#2?496C s2CC6== |4zC@=2 D2:5 E96 C:G6C 92D 366?
Mt. Vernon ranchers concerned about erosion on John Day River

Jun 25, 2024 | bluemountaineagle.com | Neil Nisperos

MT. VERNON — Prominent ranchers in Mt. Vernon are expressing concern about the possibility of flood damage to properties south of the John Day River. The river has been cutting into the bank in the vicinity of the Ingle Street Bridge for at least half a decade, according to locals, and the situation got worse last January, when a heavy snow melt-off widened the river at that point from 50 feet to 500 feet. kAm#2?496C s2CC6== |4zC@=2 D2:5 E96 C:G6C 92D 366?
'Furiosa' is another George Miller classic

Jun 24, 2024 | goeasternoregon.com | Neil Nisperos

If cinema is visual music, director George Miller is a master virtuoso. He’s among the greatest directors of action cinema (though he’s made some excellent family movies with 1995’s “Babe,” or his 2006 animated motion-capture penguin musical “Happy Feet”). When you watch a Miller flick, you know you’ll be in for a thrilling, heart-pumping ride.
Mt. Vernon man arraigned on child sex abuse charges

Jun 21, 2024 | bluemountaineagle.com | Neil Nisperos

CANYON CITY — Glen William Wadley, 59, of Mt. Vernon, has been charged with 15 counts related to child sexual abuse, including three counts each of first-degree rape, sodomy and unlawful sexual penetration. The alleged crimes are said to have taken place between Oct. 22, 2012, and Oct. 22, 2016, and involve a single victim, a female minor who was known to Wadley, according to court documents. kAmp? 2CC2:8?>6?E 7@C (25=6J H2D 96=5 2E vC2?E r@F?EJ r:C4F:E r@F?E @?
Solar electric pasture project near Seneca put on hold

Jun 18, 2024 | bluemountaineagle.com | Neil Nisperos

SENECA — Plans to build a novel solar electric project on pasture land in Bear Valley have been put on indefinite hold as the cost to send the power to a utility in Idaho has made the project unfeasible. Last year, Grant County rancher Jack Southworth partnered with Portland-based Rute Foundation Systems on the project, which was designed to allow large-scale solar energy production and cattle ranching on the same land for the first time in Oregon.