Last week’s edition of the Blue Mountain Eagle featured a story you won’t find anywhere else: Through a renewed partnership with a program called Ranchers Feeding Kids, Grant Union Jr/Sr High School is putting fresh, locally raised beef on school lunch menus while teaching students a valuable lesson about the importance of ranching in the local economy.

Reporter Justin Davis learned about the program while covering a school board meeting, then followed his curiosity to find out more and bring the full story to readers of the Eagle. If you didn’t get a chance to read that story yet, you can find it online here.

Last week’s paper also had stories on a local hero, some Grant County mathletes, the Small Business Development Center network and more.

Coming up in this weeks edition, you can read about the settlement in the Tyler Smith lawsuit, licensing issues with the Blue Mountain Hospital District’s transition to a new delivery model for home health care, a roundtable discussion with the governor and the latest developments with John Day’s planned wastewater treatment plant.

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