No matter how you look at it, Grant County – five hours southeast of Portland – is a deeply divided place. But the county’s several small towns bear the hallmark of many rural communities: everyone knows everyone, and people look out for their own.
We talk to Shelley Wyllie, who is one of the leaders of a movement members are calling Oregon Together, about why she thinks Grant County should remain a part of Oregon.
Several years after the launch of a movement calling for Eastern Oregon to become a part of Idaho, a group of local residents came to the Grant County Court meeting