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SHEPHERDSTOWN — Three weeks ago, Shepherd University Assistant Professor of Business Administration James Dovel proposed an opportunity for students in his Ne

BOARDMAN — Months after a closed-door settlement, the Easterday family is giving up its attempt to bring a controversial Boardman mega dairy back online.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture had accused Easterday Dairy of intentionally overfertilizing the land.

People gathered at Fossett Plaza at Salina Regional Airport to see a KC-46 Pegasus and KC-135 Stratotanker take part in the Air Force event Tuesday.

It could mean Easterday Dairy won’t be able to reopen.

The owner of and manager of Easterday Dairy near Boardman has filed a lawsuit against competitors, alleging they used the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office to harass him.

BOARDMAN — The owner of and manager of Easterday Dairy near Boardman has filed a lawsuit against competitors, alleging they used the Morrow County Sheriff’s Office to harass him.

Easterday Dairy has been trying to reopen a Boardman dairy plant for several years, but new documents show that after repeated setbacks and water quality violations the company may be

BOARDMAN — Oregon officials have given Cody Easterday 15 days to withdraw his application to operate a controversial mega-dairy in Boardman, just south of the Tri-Cities. The application, which has been in the permitting process for two years, was filed naming Easterday as the owner or operator of Easterday Farms Dairy LLC. But around the same time the president of one of the largest agricultural operations in Washington state was pleading guilty to wire fraud and trying to protect his bus...

BOARDMAN — Cody Easterday is still waiting for the Oregon Department of Agriculture to approve his application, submitted in June 2019, for a Confined Animal Feeding Operation near the city of Boardman. Easterday, a 49-year-old rancher whose family owns a huge agricultural operation in Washington state, proposes to open a mega-dairy that would be the second-largest in Oregon. The Easterday Dairy would have up to 28,300 animals and use more water than most cities in the state. The future of...