Oregon County Ordered to Issue Marriage Licenses
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PORTLAND, Ore.  - An Oregon county was ordered by  a judge to start issuing marriage licenses again after  officials stopped granting them earlier this year to avoid  discriminating between heterosexual and homosexual couples.
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By Jeremy Morrison, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Jun. 9--SOUTHPORT -- Bay County commissioners took an initial step this week toward easing water concerns as the area's population grows above North Bay.
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By Jeffrey Mize, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 20--Clark County will require future methadone clinics to be located at least 1,000 feet from schools, parks, libraries and other methadone clinics.
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By Steve Mayes, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Jun. 13--Despite repeated warnings from the state, a prominent Clackamas  County real estate developer allowed his herd of water buffalo to foul a creek  with fecal bacteria, stir up sediment and destroy streamside vegetation.
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  May 26--Two months after Thurston County issued a favorable environmental ruling on a grading permit for a proposed 25-foot-wide private road off Steamboat Island Road, county officials took it back for a do-over.
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 12--Thurston County officials agreed Monday to release six properties from the year-old moratorium on new subdivisions.
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WARREN - The Knox-Lincoln Soil and Water Conservation District is holding its annual trout-stocking sale.  Orders will be taken until noon Friday, May 11. Delivery for Lincoln County will be 10 a.m.
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SALEM, Ore.  - Same-sex couples should enjoy the  same rights and benefits as married heterosexual couples,  advocates told Oregon's Supreme Court on Wednesday, with the  fate of 3,000 married gay couples at issue.
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By Dave Munday, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Dec. 10--SUMMERVILLE -- Dorchester County residents who have been  fighting orders to spend thousands of dollars to tie into county sewer lines  coming their way say they've spotted an exemption in the county's sewer  ordinance.
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By Nicole Lee, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  Sep. 12--Lawyers for a man held in Allen County jail last month filed suit Monday against Allen County Sheriff James Herman and a corrections officer identified only by his last name.   Devin W.
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By Ronnie Moore, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 9--RINGGOLD, Ga. -- Catoosa County officials will ask the Georgia  Supreme Court to consider hearing an appeal of a Superior Court ruling the  county must issue a construction permit for an asphalt plant.
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By Sophia Kazmi, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep. 7--ALAMEDA COUNTY -- The Alameda County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday destroyed 1,500 marijuana plants discovered this week in the hills between Pleasanton and Fremont.
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By Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Feb. 14--Over the objections of developers and housing advocates, Monterey County supervisors Tuesday approved an interim ordinance that would delay any new major rural subdivisions until after a special election in June.
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PORTLAND, Ore.  - After Oregonians voted to ban  same-sex marriages earlier this month, a gay rights advocate  will no longer argue for same-sex marriage rights in the  state's supreme court, activists said on Friday.
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Salt Lake County needs 1,000 more poll workers for the November election.  In order to reach that number, Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen is asking local business owners to urge employees to sign up.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Jun. 23--The Larimer County Clerk and Recorder motor vehicle licensing office is offering vehicle license renewal services on the department's Web site.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep.