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COCC
applied
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for wildfire relief funds By Taylor W.Anderson The Bulletin
SALEM — Tammie and Darrell
Pac-12 challenge for
Reynolds lost their
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three-bedroom house
near Troy in late August. They heard from the sheriff's office the day after they evacu-
Electric skatedoard-
It'sthe latest must-have toy among NFL players. C1
ated that their home,
shop and vehicles all burned in the Grizzly
Haggen closures — The
Bear Complex Fire
grocery chain seeks to close all its stores in California, Arizona and Nevada.B5
that charred more than 76,000 acres in Wallowa County
and in Washington east of Walla Walla
Stressed sepuoias — The
before firefighters caught up with it. "I had a great big shop and it was plum full of everything," Tammie Reynolds said, her voice wavering. "We lost all of
drought takes its toll on California's famed giant sequoias.BS
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EDITOR'5CHOICE
The 'Silicon Prairie' takes bloom inthe Midwest By Prashant Gopal
Policing,
aided by algorithms Joe Kline/The Bulletin
Jazmyne Strohm, 18, left, of Roseburg, and her aunt Chenee Booth haul a cart filled with Jazmyne's belongings up a hill while moving into the residence hall at Central Oregon Community College on Thursday in Bend. Volunteers and members of the COCC rugby team
By John Eligon and Timothy Williams
were around to help students onmove-in day andcame to assist Jazmyne moments later.
The New Yorh Times
• Students getacquaintedwith new $21M,330-bed residencehall
Bloomberg News
By Kailey Fisicaro
Michael Hollman says he has a job offer from
The Bulletin
Amazon.corn and just in-
terviewed at Google. But he might ditch them both for Lincoln, Nebraska.
Hudl, a startup that provides video tools for coaches and athletes, is offering
With armloads of blankets, bags and plastic crates, moms, dads and siblings helped move students Thursday into the new $21 million
But come Thursday, ac-
cording to Bilbrey, things were running smoothly. Stu-
"It was insane this morn-
dents were pleased with their
senior a chance to become a hometown hero. It's raised
more than $72 million and
coordinator.
boasts a location that's ri-
brey added. Going into moving day, she was anxious, if not excited. "New building, new people ... how's it all gonna work?" Bilbrey said.
egon Community College.
residential hall at Central Or-
ing," said Stephanie Spalding Bilbrey, the college's student housing marketing
the University of Nebraska
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At the request
Insane in a good way, Bil-
rooms, she said, and their families' reactions were even better. The 330-bed residence
hall was completed this summer to replace the smaller
Juniper HalL "The parents' reactions are pretty significant," Bilbrey said. The building is filled with light from its many win-
dows, and there are views of the mountains from upper
floors. "We had some parents from Hawaii complimenting our view," Bilbrey said, adding it's pretty good if an Oregon view impresses people from a place like Hawaii. Earlier this month COCC
said 257 students were accepted as residents; Thursday afternoon, Bilbrey
of his probation officer, Tyrone Brown
estimated the count to be at
came to a community auditorium here in
about 270, accounting for
June and sat along-
last-minute cancellations and
side about 30 other
applications. Bilbrey said that as recently as a couple of days ago, COCC accepted an applica-
mostly young black men with criminal records — men who
were being watched closely by the police,
tion for a student to move in. One student, Aime Max-
just as he was.
well,24, was one of the
He expected to hear an admonition
last-minute applicants. She
applied to get a room last week.
from law enforcement
to help end violence in the community. SeeAlgorithm/A5
SeeCOCC /A4
diculously more affordable than the pricey precincts that neighbor Amazon
headquarters. "Compared to Seattle, here is dirt-cheap awe-
some," said Hollman, an intern for Hudl, where employee perks include free
2.7B later, Pentagon defenseblimpsstill grounded
sports tickets (with travel
By David Willman
stipends), catered lunches
Los Angeles Times
and an "unlimited vacation"
WASHINGTON — Unknown to most Americans,
policy. "In my mind, working at Amazon is on par with working here at Hudl." High prices on the West Coast are making it easier for the fresh crop of com-
the Pentagon has spent $2.7 billion developing a system of giant radar-equipped blimps to provide an early warning if the country were ever at-
tacked with cruise missiles, drones or other low-flying weapons. After nearly two decades of disappointment and delay, the system — known as JLENS — had a chance to prove its
worker flew a single-seat,
worth on April 15.
That day, a Florida postal
soon afterward, Rep. Jason
just such a tree-skimming in-
ing sentry above the capital region. Yet 61-year-old Douglas Hughes flew undetected through 30 miles of highly restri cted airspacebefore landing on the West Lawn of
truder, and two of the blimps
the U.S. Capitol.
him?" Chaffetz asked.
rotary-wing aircraft into the heart of the nation's capital to dramatize his demand for
campaign finance reform. JLENS is intended to spot
were supposed to be stand-
Chaffetz, R-Utah, demanded
to know how "a dude in a gyrocopter 100 feet in the air" was able to pull off such an audacious stunt. "Whose job is it to detect
At a congressional hearing
SeeBlimps/A4
puter-science graduates and other techies to choose heartland hubs that are
growing, in part, because putting down roots there doesn't require a small
fortune. See Prairie /A5
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