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• Oregon proposal would outlaw sneak photos up women's skirts The Associated Press
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Eric and Marilyn Porter moved to the Grouse Creek Ranch on the lmnaha River 10 years ago from western Colorado where gas drilling competed with their cattle business.
e ear o wo coun • Porter family, owners of Grouse Creek Ranch, learning to deal with predators 1976 Ford pickup," Marilyn
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The Grouse Creek Ranch sits at the mouth of Grouse Creek on the lmnaha River an hour and a half drive to Joseph.
Porter said. IMNAHA — Where Grouse After they married? The Creek empties into the Imcouple bought their own place naha River sits the Grouse and raisedAngus and charolais-cr osscattleon an 800-acre Creek Ranch — 3,300 acres Eric and Marilyn Porter have ranch in Colorado. Though called home for 10 years. they owned their ground, they The Porters both come from didn't own the mineral rights a long line oflivestock ranchto dril lthenaturalgasunder ers and farmers. Marilyn the ground. Marilyn Porter Porter grew up in Fort Colsaid the constant trafftc associlins, Colorado, and met her ated with drilling robbed them husband visiting grandparents oftheirprivacy and leR a conwho had a ranch near the stant stench of gas in the air. 'The vapors just hung in Porter family on the Colorado River. that little valley," Eric Porter eHer grandparents had a sald. ranch, so I thought I was marMarilyn Porter said the rying money," Eric Porter said. drilling company had the abil"I thought I was marrying ity to drill as many as 80 wells money — he had a brand-new SeePorter / Page 5A
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counci votestorep acestopsign "It's too noisy to be outside on my lawn. My property isn't
By Chense Kaechele The Observer
The Elgin City Council voted to take down a stop sign and erect a yield sign on 10th Street to alleviate some complaints by community members at last night's meeting. Paul Johnson, who lives on 10th Street near the stop sign, complained about the noise of the vehicles stopping in front of his home.
worth anything We have aspeedingissue, and a stop sign doesn'ft ix that." — Paul Johnson, Elgin resident
"It's too noisy to be outside on my lawn," Johnson told the city council."My property isn't worth anything. We have a speeding issue, and a stop sign doesn't fix that." The city council had also
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discussed replacing the stop sign with lighted crosswalk signs,
which cost $5,600, instead of the yield sign. The city cannot completely take away a sign once it's been installed, said Councilor Teresa
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Shaffer. A sign must bereplaced by another sign. The stop sign had been installed as part of the Safe Routes to School project. Students travel through that area of town, and the city council wanted a safe place for them to cross the busy road. However, Johnson said, this isn't the fix to the problem. "Elgin is dirty, unkempt and SeeCouncil / Page 5A
SALEM — Oregon lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a proposal aimed at closing a loophole in state privacy laws that recently let a man go unpunished after he took photographs up a teenager's skirt. The state Senate unanimously passed the bill, which would make it a misdemeanor to surreptitiously take photos up women's dresses without their consent. A teachers union proposed the measure after a student took so-called upskirt cellphone photos of an educator and shared them online. The Senate vote came three months after an Oregonjudge ruled a 61-year-old man did nothing illegal when he snapped photos up a teen'sskirtin a Targetstore. ''You've probably seen in the news reports that currently the tactic of what's known as upskirting is not covered for various reasons," saidSen.Floyd Prozanksi,a Eugene Democrat.'This bill will, in fact, cover the infractions, the conduct and hold people accountable for that." SeePhotos / Page 5A
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Well-known science teacher
passes away • Greg Franklin Inside The Mid taught at LHS for Columbia Bus Co. announced 31years it will be By Dick Mason The Observer
La Grande lost one of its most respected and popular educators. Greg Franklin, an award winningLa Grande High School science teacher who reti red in 2012,died Monday in La Grande. Information about the cause of Franklin's passing has not been released. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Loveland Funeral Chapel. SeeFranklin / Page 5A
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