Days Gone By: April 8, 2021
A solution of the vexatious McKay Creek bridge problem apparently was reached at a meeting of the Umatilla County Court Wednesday. Residents of the area, who have been trying for 3½ years to get the county to provide them with a new, public bridge, will pay Gilbert J. Struve, who says the bridge on SW Kirk is a private bridge that the owns, to erect a new structure in place of the present one. Struve, in turn, will pay the county to install the bridge, a railroad flatcar. 25 Years Ago April 8, 1996 A new subdivision being developed in an effort to ease the housing crunch in Heppner is the ...
Source: eastoregonian.com