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PENDLETON — On the day ballots started going out to Umatilla County voters, Position 7 candidate Briana Spencer committed to serving on the Pendleton School Board if elected. A member-elect for the Nixyaawii School Board, state law prohibits Spencer from serving on a charter school board and a district school board simultaneously. According to a Wednesday, April 28, press release from her campaign, Spencer, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, made her decision after consulting with tribal leaders and elders. If elected, Spencer said she would...

Please join us and vote for Beth Harrison for Position 1 of the Pendleton School District. I observed Beth in our Altrusa Club of Pendleton. She was a leader in Days for Girls, an international project. She always assists where needed in Altrusa. She was an advisor with me in the ASTRA Club. ASTRA is a student leadership group from our area high schools. She is prompt, organized and bright. She has served on other educational committees in our community and serves very well. She has "skin in the game" as she is raising her family in the Pendleton School District. Her husband Russ practices fa...

I enthusiastically support Briana Spencer for Pendleton School District Position 7.

The  The  East Oregonian will institute a deadline for letters to the editor, so we can be fair with all the letters we receive and allow for responses before Election Day, if necessary. We run local letters of endorsement on a first-come, first-served basis. Please submit your endorsement letters to the editor by 5 p.m. Friday, May 7. You can email them to editor@eastoregonian.com, or mail them to  East Oregonian, c/o Andrew Cutler, 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton, 97801. We will publish our last letters on Saturday, May 15. Any letters received after the deadline will not run. El...

UMATILLA COUNTY — Although federal, state and municipal elections are decided in even-number years, dozens of local races will be up for election on May 18.