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Elgin School Board passes drug policy
08/25/2006 EDUCATION
The Elgin Times / STPNS
Elgin, Oregon (STPNS)- The Elgin School Board of Directors has quite optimistically adopted a drug testing policy in which all students, grades 6-12, participating in school-related extracurricular activities will be required to be tested, through urine analysis, for illegal substances. Alcohol testing will not be includ... View
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Police officer fatally shoots Summerville Man
08/25/2006 CRIME
The Elgin Times / STPNS
Elgin, Oregon (STPNS)- Shortly after midnight on August 17, 2006, the Union County Sheriff?s Office, the Oregon State Police and the Elgin Police Department responded to a report of a subject, identified as Mark A. Harrell, threatening to kill himself in his mother?s residence on Bean Coffin Lane in Summerville.... View
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New Art in Elgin
08/11/2006 HUMAN INTEREST
The Elgin Times / STPNS
Elgin, Oregon (STPNS)- Open for nearly six weeks, Gene Hayes says that the gallery has been very well received by the community. According to his wife, Eunice Hayes, several businesses brought by potted plants during their grand opening, which made them feel very warmly welcomed. ... View
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Long walks on the beach
11/03/2006 COLUMNIST
The Elgin Times / STPNS
Elgin, Oregon (STPNS)- Our friend, Derek is looking for a woman on the Internet. Evidently it?s a sort of fill in the blanks and he has some fun saying he is earning $150,000 per year and seeing how many responses he gets compared to when he says he earns $25,000 per year. ... View
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Zipper
11/17/2006 COLUMNIST
The Elgin Times / STPNS
Elgin, Oregon (STPNS)-
I am a bus driver, just a bus driver and as such there are a good many people who think I am not too bright. I know it and it does not bother me. It used to, but not now. There are those passengers who have open disdain for me and I think it is darling.
He was standing on the corner... View
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The best Halloween treat of all
10/20/2006 COLUMNIST
The Elgin Times / STPNS
Elgin, Oregon (STPNS)- I?d gone to the store and bought $15 worth of candy and a plastic pumpkin. I dressed as a cat with painted on whiskers, a black nose, some pointy ears and a black turtle neck sweater. My sweetheart came along the route to pass out the Halloween goodies. ... View
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Kicked From the Nest
08/25/2006 COLUMNIST
The Elgin Times / STPNS
Elgin, Oregon (STPNS)- Near our house on an early spring morning, Yoda, our 10-lb terrier mix, crawled under an evergreen with low branches. She schooched down on her front legs, wagging her back side, came out and looked up at me, a hard look, right in the eye and went back under. I hunkered down and followed her. I tho... View
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Behind every red light there's a green
08/11/2006 COLUMNIST
The Elgin Times / STPNS
Elgin, Oregon (STPNS)- One of my regular customers was waiting with his shoulders hunched against the cold rain. He tossed his cigarette down as I pulled up to the curb. If he got that front tooth fixed and stopped smoking, he?d be OK, I considered.... View
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