CANYON CITY — Grant County voters appear to have passed a ballot measure approving of the formation of a non-taxing road district in an effort to capture more federal money for the county general fund, based on unofficial results from a special election held Nov. 7.
The unofficial results from the Grant County election had 535 votes for yes, and 136 votes for no, with a total of 671 votes cast, or about 30 percent of the 2,254 ballots that went out.
BAKER CITY — A Portland area lawmaker who has a key role in writing the state’s budget visited Eastern Oregon in late October to learn about increases this year in