Blue Mountain Eagle

CANYON CITY – Several county officials elected or re-elected in 2014 were sworn into a new term of office Monday at the Grant County Courthouse in Canyon City.

The ceremony led off with County Clerk Brenda Percy taking her oath, following by the rites for County Commissioner Boyd Britton, District Attorney Jim Carpenter, and two commissioners on the Grant County Public Forest Commission, Nicky A.Sprauve and Dan Bishop. Two other forest commissioners, Brooks Smith and Roger McKinley, were not at the ceremony but were scheduled to be sworn in later by the commission.

Also sworn in Monday were Justice of the Peace pro tem Jamie McKay and alternate pro tem Riccola Voigt.