I hope you had a chance to check out Journey, our annual travel supplement, which ran in last week’s paper. For this year’s installment, we traveled to all of Grant County’s country stores. It was a pure delight to visit with the owners and wander the aisles of these wonderful local institutions. 

In case you missed it, last week’s edition included stories on Gov. Tina Kotek’s visits to John Day and Prairie City, Grant County’s housing shortage, John Day’s city manager woes and Raney Anderson’s plans for continuing her stellar softball career post-high school.

Coming up this week, you’ll find stories about a local man’s lifelong love affair with the Grant County Fair, the controversy over a disappearing sign in John Day, the sentencing hearing in a notorious sex crimes case and more. 

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— Bennett Hall, Editor