Sherman County News

Many Sherman County residents will have a nice little bonus just in time for the holidays, thanks to the wind turbines dotting the county.

Sherman County voters will decide Tuesday whether to approve an $11.25 million general obligation bond that would including consolidating all school activities in the county at a single Kindergarten through highschool campus in Moro.

Windmills and power lines near Wasco in Sherman County. The region's electricity grid is going to need to expand to handle all the new wind and other renewable energy projects being built across Oregon and the West.

A 16-mile stretch of the John Day River will be set aside as a state recreation site.

Longtime Sherman County rancher, community leader, historian and wind power advocate Gordon Wilson Hilderbrand, 80, a resident of Wasco, died at his home on Friday, Sept.

The Klondike Wind Farm in Oregon's Sherman County is one of several wind farms in Eastern and Central Oregon.

Iberdrola Renewables on Tuesday said it has received nearly $300 million in federal stimulus grants it will funnel directly back into new wind energy projects.

A Duluth, Minn., resident is being charged in Sherman County following an Aug. 21 evening traffic stop that yielded roughly four pounds of marijuana.

It could have been a bad situation, but what started as a nasty surprise has become a demonstration of government and business cooperation.

Sherman County farmer Tom McCoy, a Harvard grad with a Stanford economics doctorate, stepped from his combine Wednesday for the last time after 34 years growing wheat and barley.

Sherman County farmer Tom McCoy, a Harvard grad with a Stanford economics doctorate, stepped from his combine Wednesday for the last time after 34 years growing wheat and barley.

Sherman County farmer Tom McCoy, a Harvard grad with a Stanford economics doctorate, stepped from his combine Wednesday for the last time after 34 years growing wheat and barley.

An Independence company is hoping to make wind turbines a more common feature of the Willamette Valley landscape.

A group of Grass Valley citizens have launched what may be the first recall election in the town's 108-year history.

Sherman County farmer Tom McCoy, a Harvard grad with a Stanford economics doctorate, stepped from his combine Wednesday for the last time after 34 years growing wheat and barley.

Purple starthistle is considered an aggressive invasive weed species. Discovery of a nasty weed in Eastern Oregon's Wheeler County has state agriculture officials jumping for the herbicide.

Purple starthistle is considered an aggressive invasive weed species. Discovery of a nasty weed in Eastern Oregon's Wheeler County has state agriculture officials jumping for the herbicide.

Two Hermiston-area residents involved in an injury traffic crash on Highway 214 near Antelope in Sherman County spent nearly four hours under a tree before they were found by a passing motorist Wednesday morning.

By Sam Craig The Chronicle Some decisions are easier to make after eating a handful of freshly-picked cherries.

The first turbines erected for phase two of Portland General Electric's Biglow Canyon Wind Farm have started generating electricity, PGE officials said.