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‘Why do we only have 100 people planning to come?’ Some rural counties still battle vaccine hesitancy OregonLive.com 16 mins ago Andrew Theen, oregonlive.com Nearly a month ago, Joseph P. Fiumara Jr. started noticing a worrisome trend at COVID-19 vaccine clinics run by his health department in eastern Oregon: more and more appointments for first doses went unclaimed. Even as additional Umatilla County residents became eligible, doses sat unused. In stark contrast to the Po...

PENDLETON — Umatilla County has been lowered from the high coronavirus risk category to moderate risk, Gov. Kate Brown announced on Tuesday, April 6, relaxing restrictions for indoor activities and commerce throughout the county as cases surge elsewhere in Oregon. It’s the lowest risk category the county has achieved since the state started the four-tiered risk categories in December 2020. “To be one of the counties to move down is just phenomenal,” Umatilla County Commissio...

As summer plans hang on the race between COVID-19 vaccines and the spread of new, more contagious COVID-19 variants, some major Umatilla County events are trying to plan ahead the best they can. Farm-City Pro Rodeo board member Dennis Barnett said the rodeo will go on in Hermiston in August, after being canceled completely in 2020 while Umatilla County was under strict COVID-19 restrictions. “There will be a rodeo, we just don’t know if there will be no fans, or some fans or 100%,â€...

Oregon Brewers Festival cancels for 2nd consecutive year because of COVID-19 Updated Mar 03, 2021; Facebook Share The Oregon Brewers Festival has been canceled for the second consecutive year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Art Larrance, who founded the festival in 1988, said the decision was made Monday night to skip a second year because, despite virus numbers dropping and vaccines becoming more available, there isn’t enough time to get the event organized. Portland’s signature gatheri...

Yakima Canutt was born and raised in the Palouse region of Eastern Washington. By the age of 20, he was a rodeo star known far beyond the Whitman County Fairgrounds where he busted his first broncos. The actor John Wayne came to personify the Old West, a guy who slow-talked and fought his way across the frontier, who could ride and tumble with the best of them. He became the archetypal tough-guy cowboy. But he wasn’t a cowboy, far from it. So, who taught John Wayne to be John Wayne? It was a...

Barry Lopez once asked tribal elders in the far north Indigenous cultures who had taught him so much, “What do you mean by a storyteller?”

UMATILLA COUNTY — When we look back on 2020 the story that will jump out will be the COVID-19 pandemic and the way it disrupted our everyday lives — even in Umatilla and Morrow counties. From the day (March 2), the state announced that a man had tested positive for the coronavirus after attending a basketball game at the Weston Middle School gym, nothing was the same. COVID-19 closed schools and businesses, forced the cancelation of a number of events, including the iconic Pendleton R...

PENDLETON — The Pendleton Round-Up’s Tough Enough To Wear Pink may not have been able to take place in 2020, but that didn’t prevent the campaign from raising $11,000 for its causes. The TETWP campaign on Dec. 29, 2020, donated more than $11,000 to two local cancer support organizations. The Round-Up Association’s TETWP split $11,000 raised in 2020 between the St. Anthony Hospital Cancer Care Clinic and the Kickin’ Cancer New Beginnings program. While contributions usua...

Feb. 6, 1939 — Dec. 12, 2020 James F. (Jim) Godier was born on Feb. 6, 1939, to Frank and Agnes Wood Godier in Ste Geneviève, Missouri. Jim left this world on Dec. 12, 2020, surrounded by the family he loved at the age of 81. Agnes told stories of a young Jim, how when something was unknown to him, he would work until he mastered it. The family had a big Philco radio that young Jim longed to understand. She said she came home from shopping one day and 6-year-old Jimmy had a blanket in t...

PENDLETON — A Pendleton family is receiving a very special Christmas from an unlikely source from beyond the grave — zombies. Jesselee Leachman, the creator of Zom-B13, said he wanted to do something beyond entertaining crowds at parades and events with his zombie mobile and associated friends and acquaintances who play zombies and zombie killers. With the popularity of his brainchild and a strong local fan base, Leachman said he invited people to enter a drawing to receive Christmas ...