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Candidates make their case

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Ensuring continued service. Meeting the demands of growth. Goals for the future.

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Regional voters to decide taxes, school races

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Residents in Lake, Siskiyou and Modoc counties will have choices to make on tax levies and council and school  board races in the Nov. 4 election.

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Charter commission candidates

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Klamath County voters will decide Nov. 4 whether to change their structure of county government from a three-person board of commissioners to a home rule charter with five commissioners representing specific districts.

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Four running for U.S. House

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U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith isn’t the only Republican from Oregon seeking to keep his seat in Washington, D.C.

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Klamath County Charter — Full text

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Klamath County Charter Preamble We the people of Klamath County, Oregon, in order to avail ourselves of self-determination in Klamath County affairs to the fullest extent permissible under the constitution and laws of the State of Oregon, by this charter confer upon Klamath County the following powers, subject it to the following restrictions, and prescribe for it the following procedures and governmental structure:

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Modoc hospital administrator hired

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8 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 Walter Beck was hired by Modoc County Supervisors as the new Modoc Medical Center chief executive officer.

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Bonanza council reschedules meeting

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10 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008 A special meeting of the Bonanza Common Council that was scheduled for Tuesday was rescheduled to 6 p.m. Thursday in the Bonanza Town Hall.

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Commissioners discuss pine beetle infestation

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5 p.m., Tuesday, Sept.. 16, 2008 As a mountain pine beetle infestation devastates portions of the Fremont-Winema National Forest, federal forest officials say they are working to address the problem.

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School boundary plan meeting changed to Sept. 24

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A legal technicality will keep Klamath County’s two school districts’ boundary realignment plan off the Southern Oregon Education Service District boundary board’s agenda Wednesday, but the board will consider a petition to merge the districts.

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Klamath Falls man drowns after jumping from bridge

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Posted 5:40 p.m., Monday, Sept. 15, 2008: A Klamath Falls man drowned Sunday evening after jumping off Crystal Springs Bridge into Lost River. Klamath County Sheriff’s Office deputies and dive rescue team members responded to a 911 call at about 6:25 p.m. The caller reported Gordon Schmid, 40, had not surfaced after jumping from the bridge.

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