HERMISTON — Former Hermiston High School girls soccer head coach Freddy Delapaz Guizar is headed to state prison for more than six years for felony sex crimes.
HOOD RIVER — Columbia Gorge CASA recognized the contributions of its team of volunteers at the organization’s annual appreciation dinner recently. The nonprofit works with trained volunteers to advocate for
“It is incomprehensible that a judge, elected by citizens, can be excluded from the criminal docket by a sole district attorney or public defender,” said Senior Judge Dan Bunch, who spent nearly 13 years on the bench in Klamath County.
Statewide officials take their oaths across Oregon
Pandemic spreads out ceremonies normally conducted at the Capitol in Salem.
Three Oregon statewide officials took their oaths for four-year terms Monday, Jan. 4, in ceremonies spread out across the state during the coronavirus pandemic.
The pandemic resulted in alternatives to the usual ceremonies on the first Monday in January at the Capitol in Salem.
Secretary of State Shemia Fagan, the newest statewide official, chose the steps of Dufur School for her swearing in by Wasco County Judge Janet Stauffer, who lives in Dufur.
As a fourth-grade student, Fagan was encouraged by her teacher to join an after-school chess club, which eventually led her to win a state chess championship and turn her life around. She and two brothers were raised by their father in a one-parent household, while their mother struggled with addiction and homelessness in Portland.