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The Port of Morrow continued this winter to spread more nitrogen-contaminated wastewater across eastern Oregon farm fields than permitted, further harming an already contaminated aquifer supplying drinking water to thousands of residents in Morrow and Umatilla counties.
For the first time in months The Observerâs newsroom is operating with a full staff. Diligent sports editor Ronald Bond left in October 2020 to take the helm of one of our sister papers, the Wallowa County Chieftain. Soon after, we had Kaleb Lay here and cranking out stories, but he then departed Feb. 5 for other endeavors. We had other changes in between those events. But we hired Alex Wittwer on Feb. 8. His photography skills made an immediate improvement to the look of the newspaper. But the rub is, the EO Media Group, our parent company, hired Alex as a multimedia regional journalist...