Boardman News

If you, your friends or your family live near Boardman Oregon the dust you see and the vibrations you feel might well be coming from the Navy! Naval Air Station Whidbey is conducting explosive demolition operations on the Boardman Bombing Range for the remainder of the week.

Margarito Martinez says he was fired from the eastern Washington dairy that employed him for more than a year because he tried to unionize the company.

Desi Smith gets help from Jane Opiat operating a cider press owned by his parents, Keith and Elaine Smith.

The Tri-Cities of eastern Washington have not received gasoline deliveries since The Dalles Dam lock closure last week, while garbage has piled up in Vancouver, according to a feature report in the Oregonian.

The nation's largest farm worker union has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 10 eastern Washington dairy farmers who contend they've been fired for trying to unionize.

River traffic - commercial and recreational - is impeded on the Columbia River at The Dalles Dam, where workers are repairing structural problems to the lock gates.

Margarito Martinez says he was fired from the Eastern Washington dairy that employed him for more than a year because he tried to unionize the company.

Nearly 50 people are searching the Columbia River by boat, by air and along the shoreline today for two fishermen missing after their boat capsized.

Searchers have pulled the bodies of two fishermen from the Columbia River near Boardman, the Morrow County Sheriff's Office reported.

BOARDMAN, Ore. - A Warm Springs fisherman has been found dead in the Columbia River near Boardman, while the search for another is continuing.

Amazon Halts Construction On $135 Million Datacenter Due To Economy Sep. 15, 2009, 7:54 AM Amazon has abandoned construction on a $135 million datacenter in Boardman, Oregon until "sometime next year" due to "poor economic conditions," according to the town's Chamber of Commerce.

Amazon has acknowledged that it's behind the 116,700-square-foot data center no longer under construction on the banks of the Columbia River in Boardman, Oregon.

On paper, making fuel from plant materials looks like a simple five-step process.

Poplar trees from the Greenwood Resources plantations near Boardman, Ore., are now made into lumber used in cabinets at a mill that opened earlier this year.

HERMISTON, Ore. - Picture Lewis and Clark splitting up at some point between present-day Umatilla and Boardman and racing to the Pacific Ocean.

Boardman police are investigating the death of a Marine recruiter. Police were called to Tots Town in Boardman Park around 2 o'clock Friday afternoon.

A House agriculture subcommittee held its third hearing of the month on the crisis facing the nation's dairy farmers, but didn't come any closer to consensus on what - if anything - to do to protect farmers from a long, deep slide in milk prices.

John Cole Carlgren, whose blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit, had four previous DUII convictions Umatilla County District Attorney Dean Gushwa and Attorney General John Kroger announced today that a repeat drunk driver who killed four people in a crash near Pendleton last year received a 43-year prison sentence.

A repeat drunk driver was sentenced today to 43 years in prison for an alcohol-related crash near Pendleton last year that killed four people.

Carrie Atiyeh of ZeaChem gave a presentation to the Mayors and City Managers of Morrow County during May's meeting in Boardman.