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There you’ll find step-by-step instructions for dealing with some common challenges, such as how to log in, how to reset your password and how to register your print subscription to unlock full access to all our digital content.

If you still need help, contact our Circulation Department at 800-781-3214 or support@eomediagroup.com. We have team members standing by to assist you in taking full advantage of all your subscription benefits.

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In case you missed it, last week’s edition of the Blue Mountain Eagle featured stories and photos from the Grant Union and Prairie City high school graduation ceremonies, plus stories on the dismissal of charges in the burn boss case, what’s next for the CyberMills and a local student going to college on a dance scholarship.

Coming up this week, look for full coverage of the annual ’62 Days Celebration in Canyon City, plus stories on rodeo safety, former John Day Fossil Beds paleontologist Ted Fremd, the demise of John Day’s purple pipe project and a classical piano concert at the Cant Ranch near Kimberly.

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I want to repeat something I said in this space last week: 

We’re still here, and we’re not going anywhere.

There have been a lot of questions since EO Media Group announced some major changes for many of its newspapers, including the Blue Mountain Eagle.

And that’s not surprising — there’s a lot of information to process.

But let’s start with what’s not changing: There will still be a print newspaper serving Grant County. It will just say East Oregonian at the top instead of Blue Mountain Eagle.  

The last printed edition of the Blue Mountain Eagle will come out on June 26. Starting in July, Eagle subscribers will begin receiving the East Oregonian, which will also be available in our office and at local retail outlets — the same places where you can find the Eagle now. What’s more, this new version of the East Oregonian will include news and advertising from Grant County, every week. As a newspaper of general circulation, it will also serve as the newspaper of record for Grant County — meaning any legal notices that local government entities, attorneys and others have been publishing in the Eagle can be published in the East Oregonian going forward, at the same rates as before.

The Eagle will still maintain an office in John Day, staffed by an editor, a reporter and an advertising rep, to take care of our readers and advertisers in Grant County. The Eagle’s website will still be there, with all of the local content you have come to expect from our weekly print edition, along with a whole lot more that just won’t fit in our printed pages. And starting in July, Eagle subscribers will gain full access to the websites of all our sister papers in Eastern Oregon.

Yes, there are changes underway. And yes, your printed newspaper will look different than it does now. But here’s one thing that won’t change: We are still committed to covering the news that matters to Grant County residents. 

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As always, if you have comments or questions about the Eagle, or want to pass along a story idea, send me an email at this address: editor@bmeagle.com.

— Bennett Hall, Editor