Ticked teen rats out his mother for pot plants
BREMERTON — A 14-year-old boy upset that his mother threatened to send him to military school for skipping class later turned her in for growing marijuana.
A Kitsap County deputy went to the residence after the teenager called 911 emergency dispatchers and said his mother was growing pot, police reports said.
At the house, the teen told the deputy he was angry that his mom was trying to discipline him for skipping class and talking back, “and he decided to tell on his mother,” the report said.
In her closet, the deputy found 10 small marijuana plants. The mother said she was growing them for personal use. She also told the deputy she knows her own alleged lawbreaking is part of the problem with her son. “It is tough to get her son to respect authority when he knows she breaks the law growing pot,” the report said, quoting the mother.
The woman was cooperative, the deputy wrote, and was not arrested.
Olympia: State deaf school chief named
Gov. Chris Gregoire has appointed Richard Hauan to the top post at the state School for the Deaf in Vancouver. Hauan has been interim superintendent since the fall and was assistant superintendent for more than three years. Previously, he worked in the Anacortes and Oak Harbor districts.
Yakima: Growers make way for hops
Some Yakima Valley hop growers are pulling other crops to plant the beer-flavoring ingredient and planting new acreage in response to a worldwide shortage that caught brewers, dealers and growers by surprise.
A decade of oversupply and low prices that sent acreage plummeting by more than a third is over, at least for now.
In response to that limited supply, by the end of last year some prices jumped to 10 times historic levels, $20 per pound and more on the “spot” market. “Spot” hops are those not committed under long-term contracts.
Oregon: Small-town officials quitting
In tiny Elgin, six of the seven City Council members are quitting rather than fill out newly required state ethics forms, and the seventh might leave, too.
The entire five-member city planning commission quit last week in protest of what members described as a prying state government invading their privacy.
In Enterprise, four planning commission members quit, as did one in Rogue River north of Medford and some in Canyonville. Three City Council members in North Powder near Baker City weren’t far behind, and a Roseburg city planning commission member says he, too, is out of there.
More may go by Tuesday when the forms are due from elected or appointed public officials in 97 towns and six county governments that opted out of a 1974 Oregon law requiring data that shows where officeholders’ interests lie. The Legislature voted in 2007 to end that exemption.
@3. Headline News Briefs 14 no bold lede-in:Woman allegedly drove drunk to police office
The Oregon State Police arrest drunken drivers on the road every day. But it’s not often that the drivers show up drunk at a state police office.
Troopers charged 42-year-old Ruby Ann Pederson of Newport with driving under the influence of intoxicants after she came to work to clean the police office.
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