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PENDLETON — Blue Mountain Community College filled a key part of its organizational chart a few weeks after reshuffling it.

PENDLETON — No mask, no vaccine, no problem. In light of the state lifting its mask mandate July 1, Blue Mountain Community College elected to make masks optional for students and staff ahead of the return to in-person classes in the fall term. David Shellberg is BMCC’s chief operating officer and the chair of the college’s emergency response team, which has been providing the college with recommendations on its reopening policy. He said the group decided to lift its own mask rul...