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PROJECT UPDATE: Des Moines public works facility Wednesday, April 14, 2021 8:00 AM Exterior walls have been erected on the city of Des Moines new Municipal Service Center at 1700 Maury St. Work is expected to be completed by May 31, 2022. Drone photo provided by City of Des Moines Below: The public entry into the city of Des Moines planned Municipal Services Center II includes the use of at least four materials: glass, accent panels, precast concrete and metal, both painted and p...

PENDLETON — The soft opening for the motel formerly known as The Whiskey Inn began on a sidewalk on Southeast Second Street. About a half-dozen of Pendleton’s unhoused residents gathered Thursday, April 1, across the street in front of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, where Paula Hall, the chief executive officer of the Community Action Program of East Central Oregon, explained why the new homeless shelter and transitional housing project had been renamed the Promise Inn. “W...

ONTARIO Ongoing issues with transients, such as break-ins, burglaries, theft, drug activities including shooting up in public, used needles left on the ground, loitering, urinating and defecating in public, panhandling and myriad other issues are cited as the reason that frustrated business owners on the east side are meeting with Ontario Police Chief Steven Romero on Friday. Some of the problems with theft have been going on for years, but business owners in that area say it has become increas...

City-owned land in Market District appraised at $11.1 million Property to be sold to development group proposing to redevelop 39-acre area Friday, January 15, 2021 3:30 PM District Developer LLC, a consortium that includes developer James Cownie’s JSC Properties, MidAmerican Energy Co. and other local developers, plans to redevelop 39 acres of the Market District, a 260-acre area roughly between East Court Avenue and Scott Avenue and between Southeast Fourteenth Street and the Des...