La Grande News

DOW GAINS: The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 125.86 points, only the fifth gain this month.

La Grande police are investigating a series of car prowls that occurred on La Grande's east side either Saturday night and Sunday morning, including one in which a firearm was reported stolen.

Mel Ackley of La Grande, right, and Florina Preszler of Klamath Falls watch the flyover Monday at Grandview Cemetery.

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Roy Gomez, a transportation operations assistant for Northeast Oregon Public Transit, demonstrates how to load a bike on the rack of this trolley bus.

Wallowa native Brady Goss and his band will perform in concert Friday evening at the Elgin Opera House playing everything from blues to country rock.

EOLS COURT MEMBER COURTNEY RYNEARSON presents donated Eastern Oregon Livestock Show tickets to residents of the Grande Ronde Retirement Residence represented by Ethel Ream and Bob McClure.

At Monday night's special council meeting, the city awarded two contractors with jobs pouring a new sidewalk and removing a dying tree from the opera house lawn.

Robert Frost once said, "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering." The youths did so while composing poems they entered in this year's annual La Grande K-12 Poetry Contest.

Though the weather was cold and wet, 300 volunteers responded to make May 5 another successful La Grande and Island City Neighborhood Cleanup Day.

LATE DAY CHANGE: A big final-hour comeback pulled the Dow Jones industrial average nearly back to where it started Wednesday.

The FCC has proposed a $25,000 fine against PACIFIC EMPIRE RADIO CORP. for public file rule violations at Talk KLBM-A and Classic Rock KUBQ /LA GRANDE, OR; Talk KBKR-A/BAKER, OR; and Oldies "BOOMER RADIO 95.9 AND 105.9" simulcast KKBC-F/BAKER, OR and KRJT/ELGIN, OR.

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Incumbent Union County Commissioner Mark Davidson advanced to November's general election Tuesday by handily defeating challenger Irene Gilbert in the Republican primary.

LONG SLIDE: The Dow Jones industrial average fell 63 points Tuesday, continuing a slide that has shaved off nearly 5 percent of its value in two weeks.

An Oregon Air National Guard F-15 Eagle lands on the runway at Kingsley Field, Klamath Falls, following a routine training mission.

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