Pendleton’s new $95 million high school has officially opened its doors, bringing a 240,000-square-foot campus and room for future growth.

Austin Lewis Hazard received 10 years after prosecutors described a violent domestic attack involving strangulation, a head-butt and a cigarette burn.

Jackson County spent $28,444 sending four officials to Hawaii for conferences, resort stays and a Pearl Harbor ceremony. The public payoff remains difficult to measure.