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Tribal Government & News Tribe participates in conservation property tour 10.14.2025 Danielle Harrison Lands Tribal Natural Resources Department Manager Colby Drake, right, discusses how the department is returning “good fire” to the landscape at Tribal conservation property Noble Oaks, located in Sheridan. Drake and Tribal Fish and Wildlife Policy Analyst Lindsay McClary, left, led a tour Thursday, Sept. 25, at Noble Oaks which highlighted oak and prairie habitat restoration at the site …

Tribal Government & News DEQ approves Blue Heron purchaser agreement with Tribe 08.15.2019 Dean Rhodes Economic development Blue Heron Paper Mill in Oregon City. (Smoke Signals file photo) By Dean Rhodes Smoke Signals editor The state Department of Environmental Quality has signed a prospective purchaser agreement with the Grand Ronde Tribe regarding the 23-acre Blue Heron Paper Mill site after holding a public meeting in mid-July at the Museum of the Oregon Territory. A prospective purchaser …

recognized Tribes. The meeting with President Obama was one of a whirlwind of endless meetings, Kennedy said, starting Monday night and running daily through Friday. 2004 – Housing Director Carina Kistler Ginter teamed with several volunteers in the construction of the new playground area in the family housing development, Chxi Musam Illihi. The project took four hours to complete and provided children in the area with a safe place to play. 1999 – The Tribe’s new permanent cultural site west …

the Environmental Protection Agency. The first grant, for $350,000, would fund further environmental assessment work of remediation areas at the former Blue Heron Paper Mill site in Oregon City purchased by the Tribe in August. The second, valued at $500,000, would fund cleanup of the Water Street block of the Blue Heron property; Approved applying for a $25,000 Business Oregon Brownfields Redevelopment Fund integrated planning grant that would help fund brownfields planning activities at the Blue …

Manager Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reibach during the Sunday, Jan. 5, General Council meeting held in the Tribal Community Center. In 2019, the Tribe added 755.42 acres to its portfolio that included two conservation properties and the former Blue Heron Paper Mill site in Oregon City, bringing the total to 15,864 acres. The largest addition to the Tribe’s land holdings is also the closest – the 670-acre Noble Oaks property located between Sheridan and Grand Ronde. The property was donated …

, according to Trolan, who developed content for the project along with Special Projects Coordinator Kim Mueller and Cultural Education Specialist Leslie Riggs. 2001 – The Tribal Housing Department was planning to construct a 36-unit family housing development across the street from Tribal offices on a 20-acre site. Construction of the homes was expected to start in the spring of 2002, with the street and site work to begin within a month. The completion date for everything was set for early 2003 …

with Willamina-based Scholten Construction to include all work for 15 homes in phase one of the project for a cost of $6.85 million. A previous July 2022 agreement with the company included an allocation of $1.2 million to fund site work only at the Tribe’s home ownership development for all 20 homes. Site work includes things such as laying the foundations and other improvements. However, the other five homes are now being built by Tribal members who purchased the sites. “Five Tribal members …

Culture Mural Project to start on Monday, Jan. 2 12.14.2011 Ron Karten Culture , Events The Grand Ronde Mural Project is scheduled to begin Monday, Jan. 2, and take about a month to complete. The mural will be painted on panels at the former middle school gym in Grand Ronde and then be moved to a permanent site by the entrance to Tribal Housing. During the first week, an artist team and student apprentices will set up the work space and draw the 70-foot mural design. On the second weekend …

, Dakota Whitecloud, Clifford Olson, Jan D. Reibach, Harold Lyon, Mark Mercier, Margaret Provost and Perri McDaniel. Ballots are scheduled to go out in the mail on July 27 and the Candidate Statement Wawa also will be mailed out this week. The Candidate Forum will be recorded and posted on the Tribal Web site for Tribal members who cannot attend. Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Share Article Link Subscribe Subscribe to our Newspaper for latest updates: Subscribe To Our Newspaper For Latest …

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