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Archive for October, 2007

Two steps in the right direction

Our View Election 2007 Endorsements

An improvement across the board

Decisions, decisions. Everyone loves to make them, everyone hates to make them and everyone makes them just a little bit differently than the next guy.

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By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
State attorneys representing the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife filed an appeal yesterday protesting Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Eve L. Miller’s order to return the deer confiscated from Jim Filipetti and Francesca Mantei on Sept. 12.

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Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Eve L. Miller released a decision this morning granting the petition filed by the family Jim Filipetti to have the doe named Snowball, currently in the custody of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, returned to Filipetti.
According to a statement released by the office of Filipetti’s attorney Geordie Duckler, [...]

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By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
Can a deer fall in the same category as a sawed-off shotgun, an unlicensed pack of cigarettes or a bottle of moonshine?
That was the question of the day in the Clackamas County courthouse, where attorneys for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the family of Jim Filipetti and Francesca Mantei [...]

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By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
School superintendents and principals from 13 school districts – including Molalla – that use sports team names like the Indians, the Warriors and the Braves, sat down around a table with members of the Oregon Department of Education’s Native American Mascot Advisory Committee on Tuesday.

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High winds toppled three trees on Buckner Creek Road in Mulino today, knocking down power lines and crashing onto the roof of one house.

According to neighbors, the top of one Douglas fir tree broke off and fell, blocking the road and knocking power lines down, at about noon. Two more 60-year-old trees fell around [...]

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By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
Jim Filipetti and Francesca Mantei, the former custodians of a congenitally deformed blacktail deer named Snowball, filed a claim in the Clackamas County Circuit Court on Monday, asking the court to order the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to return the doe to them.

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By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced today that Snowball, the doe confiscated from a Molalla family on Sept. 12, will be placed at Rosse Posse Acres, a commercial elk farm in Molalla.
Rosse Posse, a 52-acre farm with 80 head of elk, is one of the 24 facilities in the state [...]

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Bucky released

After being given a vasectomy to ensure that his mother’s genetic deformities are not passed on, Bucky the young black-tailed buck raised by a Molalla family was released into the wild today.
Bucky and his mother Snowball, a 6-year-old doe with white coloring and a genetic deformity affecting her hind legs, were confiscated by the Oregon [...]

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By Abby Sewell
Molalla Pioneer
Angelin Rose January, 21, of Molalla was sentenced to more than four years in prison on Monday, after pleading guilty to charges that she caused the crash that killed her father last April while driving high on methamphetamine.

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