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It’s not just closing a post office. For residents of Ashwood, a rural town of about 50 people an hour east of Madras, the post office is where residents find out who isn’t feeling well and who needs an extra hand. It’s where community members exchange books during the long winter. And when a letter leaves with an Ashwood postmark, it’s a reminder to the outside world that Ashwood exists. “We’re barely a dot on the map the way it is,” said Ashwood resident Bing Bingham. “If we lose our post office, we lose our dot.” Earlier this month, U.S. Postal Service workers shut down the post office, calling it an “emergency suspension.” Whether the doors will be reopened is unclear. “It’s a possibility. I don’t have a crystal ball, so I don’t know,” said Marilee Spitsnogle, manager for post office operations in Eugene and the overseer of the Ashwood post office. Spitsnogle declined to discuss specifics behind the emergency closure but said it was regarding a personnel issue. See Ashwood / A5
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Robert Brunoe, left, general manager of natural resources with the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, holds a Rocky Mountain goat kid last week before it is released on the east side of Mount Jefferson. In all, about 45 goats were introduced to the area.
Rare animals hoof it up Jefferson’s slopes By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
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Bike advocates and local law enforcement members are discussing whether to create a diversion class that could educate bicyclists who break traffic laws in Deschutes County. The program would be similar to classes for drivers that allow some to keep traffic tickets off their driving records or avoid fines. Fines for violations commonly committed by bicyclists, such as riding the wrong way on the road, riding faster than a pedestrian speed on the sidewalk and blowing through a stop sign, range from $152 to $297. One Bend police officer said that if the class were available as an educational and less costly option, more officers would likely cite bicyclists who disobey traffic laws. Multnomah County started a similar class in 2007 for bicyclists, pedestrians and drivers who violate traffic laws. The concept grew out of an educational campaign organized by the Deschutes County Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee, which also launched a new website, www.bikecentraloregon.org, on Friday with information on traffic laws and safe riding for bicyclists and drivers, and a link to bicycling maps and route information. The committee began working on the campaign earlier this year in response to bicyclist and driver conflicts on popular, but deteriorating, Skyliners Road west of Bend. See Bicycling / A4
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people before he started to sing a blessing in his native language. It was a nearly cloudless morning on a remote part of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Mount Jefferson stood in the background. The only sound, other than Suppah’s voice, was the thump coming from crates full of Rocky Mountain goats. The animals, once a native popula-
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Rocky Mountain goats run from their transport crates down a burlap shoot and toward a ridge on the east side of Mount Jefferson, which is land owned by the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. The goats disappeared from the Cascades in Central Oregon more than a century ago.
“This is exciting for us culturally, and as a resource, too. ... I’m sure they have a place in the ecosystem. I hope we can use them traditionally and just appreciate them.” — Pah-tu Pitt, intern, Warm Springs Natural Resource Department tion in the Cascade Mountains, have been gone from the Cascades in Central Oregon for more than a century. Last week, about 45 were introduced to the area. “We made a promise to the Creator. We will take care of what was placed here,” Suppah said.
Officials from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs worked together to capture goats from the Elkhorn Mountains in Baker County and release them at the base of Mount Jefferson. See Goats / A4
At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a website’s frequently asked questions page about homelessness — and did not think he needed to credit a source because the page did not include author information. At DePaul University, the tipoff to one student’s copying was “This the purple shade of several para- generation has graphs he had lifted from the always existed Web; when confronted by a writ- in a world ing tutor, he was not defensive where media — he just wanted to know how to and intellectual change purple text to black. property don’t And at the University of Mary- have the same land, a student reprimanded for gravity.” copying from Wikipedia in a pa- — Sarah Brookper on the Great Depression said over, senior, he thought its entries — unsigned Rutgers and collectively written — did not need to be credited since they counted, essentially, as common knowledge. See Plagiarism / A5