Creating a blight resistant strain is the goal of conservationists By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff March 24, 2008 GUILFORD — Walk around the forests and parks of Connecticut, and you won’t see many American chestnut trees stretching into the canopy. One hundred years ago, blight killed as many as 4 billion of the trees, which were once common from New England to western Tennessee. The blight, a...
By Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff Feb. 25, 2008 GUILFORD — For police Officers Martina Jakober and Joanne Shove, there are certain challenges to being both cops and mothers with new babies at home. Jakober decided to take an extra three months of unpaid maternity leave because, for one, she found that breast-feeding was not entirely compatible with law enforcement. “It makes it very difficult to be wearing...
Rachael Scarborough King, Register Staff 09/20/2007 GUILFORD — The parents of a freshman student whose teacher resigned after he gave her a sexually explicit illustrated book said Wednesday their daughter has been the target of harassment from fellow students, and they want the school district to do more to clarify the issue with other parents. The girl’s father, who asked that his family remain anonymous because it has...
Area's fertile ground has recently yielded important relics from the dinosaur age By Rachael Scarborough King / The Bulletin Published: April 22. 2007 5:00AM PST MITCHELL - Digging her toes into the steep, slippery side of a sagebrush- and wildflower-covered hill, Ellen Morris Bishop peered at a stream of loose rocks. Picking up a yellowish, dictionary-sized rock, she displayed the streaky imprint of a 40-million-year-old plant. "Now here...
Crook County wants to see more high school students go to college By Rachael Scarborough King / The Bulletin Published: February 08. 2007 5:00AM PST PRINEVILLE - Crook County High School senior Jimmy Thommason thinks it's important for his classmates to continue their education past the 12th grade. But Jimmy, who is 18, is not planning to go straight to college or trade school. He is going into...
By Rachael Scarborough King / The Bulletin Published: February 06. 2007 5:00AM PST PRINEVILLE - More than two weeks after Prineville city officials eliminated the public works director's job, residents, City Council members and public employees are still mired in debate over the decision. Hundreds of residents have signed petitions calling for Mayor Mike Wendel to resign. Others are criticizing Assistant City Manager Jerry Gillham, who originally suggested...
By Rachael Scarborough King / The Bulletin Published: January 19. 2007 5:00AM PST PRINEVILLE - A few minutes after the doors to the St. Vincent de Paul Society's food bank in Prineville opened at 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon, its long, narrow waiting room was full. Two-year-old Koda Lostroh's voice stood out among the mostly silent clients. An alert boy, with rich-brown eyes, Koda read a Winnie the Pooh...
New owners to refurbish Pine Theater for movie fans By Rachael Scarborough King / The Bulletin Published: January 17. 2007 5:00AM PST PRINEVILLE - Local residents have wondered for years when the rapidly growing city of Prineville would acquire that staple of small-town Saturday nights: a movie theater. Now they have their answer. A Prineville couple, Oniko and Ali Mehrabi, has purchased the old Pine Theater in downtown...
Property owners in 150-home sagebrush subdivision vie for 10 permits a year By Rachael Scarborough King / The Bulletin Published: January 07. 2007 5:00AM PST JUNIPER ACRES - Lee and Marilyn Smock's house looks like a typical Central Oregon dwelling. The outside door, surrounded by a redwood-fenced garden, opens into a kitchen stocked with all of the usual appliances: refrigerator, microwave, oven. Last week, a television in the...
High schoolers who live in Crook County's outposts spend several hours a day getting to and from school By Rachael Scarborough King / The Bulletin Published: December 17. 2006 5:00AM PST PAULINA - It was pitch dark at 6 a.m. on a late November day when three teenage boys made the brisk trip from their warm cars onto the frigid school bus idling outside of Paulina Elementary School....