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Kerry Leichtman appointed as interim Rockport Town Manager Louis Bettcher Tue, 05/25/2021 - 2:00pm Town Manager Bill Post and members of the Rockport Select Board meet May 24 via ZOOM. Partial list compiled by Bill Post of ongoing projects in Rockport. ROCKPORT — May 24 marked the last meeting of the Rockport Select Board that would be attended by Bill Post in the the role of Town Manager; the meeting was also the last which outgoing Select Board Chair Debra Hall and Selectman Jeff Hamilton would participate in as elected officials. After nearly two year’s working for the munici...

Robert Duke resigns from Rockport municipal committees, withdraws from ballot Thu, 05/20/2021 - 11:45am Robert Duke ROCKPORT — Following the early morning, May 20 announcement that Jon Duke has been hired as the town’s new town manager, effective July 6, his father, Robert Duke, is withdrawing from the Select Board ballot and municipal committees. The ballot, however, has been printed; therefore, voters are being informed now that Duke will not serve on the Select Board if he wins a seat. He sent the following letter to the town: Robert G. Duke, Jr. Richard Anderson, Chair; Com...

SALEM — An anti-doxxing bill that passed the Oregon House with broad support could be amended in the Senate to shield public agencies from having to release certain personal information about their employees. In its original form, House Bill 3047 would allow people to sue someone who released personal information about them on social media or in another public forum if they could prove the release was done with the intent to harass or cause harm. It passed the House 58-0 in April. Doxxing is a term frequently used to describe the malicious releasing of a person’s home address, perso...

Amendment to anti-doxxing bill would block release of some public employee info Updated May 12, 2021; Posted May 12, 2021 A committee in the Oregon Senate is considering a proposal that would limit the release of personal information about public employees.Oregonian file photo by Yuxing Zheng Facebook Share An anti-doxxing bill that passed the Oregon House with broad support could be amended in the Senate to shield public agencies from having to release certain personal information about their employees. In its original form, House Bill 3047 would allow people to sue someone who released ...

House Bill 2648 went to the Senate on a 54-4 vote on Wednesday, April 28. The requirement for a prescription was written into law in 2005, when people were buying medicines containing pseudoephedrine — a precursor chemical — for use in making methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant that is illegal. Oregon was the first state to do so. “We had a meth-lab problem and it was really bad,” Rep. Bill Post, a Republican from Keizer and the bill’s floor manager, said. “It worked. Meth labs went way down to almost nothing.” The law made it harder to obtain some medicin...