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PENDLETON — By a 5-2 vote, the Blue Mountain Community College Board of Education approved reducing the college’s staff by 14 positions, including seven layoffs, at a special board meeting on Friday, April 30. The move represented a slight improvement from a previous projection that anticipated 11 layoffs as a part of 16 staff reductions, but BMCC administrators maintained the cuts needed to happen so the college could stabilize itself as it attempts to recover from a sustained period of declining enrollment exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. BMCC will lay off five supervisory em...

SALEM — By passing a bill, the state is poised to end a eight-month ordeal that nearly ended Blue Mountain Community College’s corrections education program. On April 8, the Oregon Senate followed the House in passing House Bill 5042, a spending bill that includes $542,033 for BMCC to help tie up some loose ends as it starts its new contract with the Oregon Department of Corrections. Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, who voted for the bill, said the allocation will act as a stopgap funding to cover the few months between the end of the BMCC’s old contract with the state prison syste...

Jordan Spieth returns to winner's circle, claims Valero Texas Open   Jordan Spieth shoots 6-under 66 to win Valero Texas Open SAN ANTONIO — When he won the Valero Texas Open with a little putt for par, Jordan Spieth waited for a particular emotion that never quite came. The end seemed familiar and right. But then he saw his wife. Annie Verret ran to him with tears behind her sunglasses. She felt the weight of a struggle that had lasted 1,351 days, those 83 starts on the PGA TOUR since her husband had last won. Their embrace, when Spieth nearly lifted her off of ...

John Fields, advertising sales manager, local accounts John Fields is the retail sales manager at The San Diego Union-Tribune. He joined the Union-Tribune in 1987 and has held various sales and management roles across the organization, including major accounts senior account executive, preprint manager and North County sales manager. John brings a wealth of experience and familiarity with the San Diego market to his work, having developed effective digital and print advertising strategies for hundreds of national and San Diego-based businesses. Paul Ingegneri, vice president of advert...

Sean Tillmann seems hesitant to talk about how happy he is right now. For starters, he doesn't want to sound unaware of all the misery and strife out there. "As bad as things got last year, I didn't think anybody really needed to hear me or my perspective," he said. There's also a fear that the main factors behind his happiness — getting sober, getting engaged and getting a very real job — might all sound antithetical to the persona he has spent the past two decades building up as Har Mar Superstar. Not that he had big alternative motives other than simply having a good time in the ...