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Lowe leaves big shoes to Fill for his successor By Ronald Bond
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Lee Lowe poses with the state championship trophies won by the Imbler football program during his time as head coach.
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Thirteen playofF appearances. Five trips to the state semifinals. But after the Panthers defeated Four to the championship game. Grant Union 40-0 in their 2014 Two state titles. season finale Oct. 31, he knew it One head coach. was time to move on. "I kicked it around ever since I For the past 36 years, Lee Lowe haS PaCed the SidelineS fOr the Imgot out of the classroom," said Lowe, ble rPanthers football team, taking who had retired from teaching a few the program to levels never before years prior.'The last game that we reached. SeeLowe / Page5A
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SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown last week added pressure to a group oflawmakers working to regulate Oregon's medical marijuana market, saying she wants the state to require a tracking system that follows marijuana from the day it's planted to the day it's sold. Brown wrote she supports the system, known as seed-to-s ale,in a letter to members of the joint legislative committee tasked with regulatingmarijuana before possessionbecomes legalfor adults July 1. Seed-to-s aletracking would add costsform edical marijuana growers and processors, Brown said. But she wrote she believes "anything short of a strong tracking system" would result in lost revenue that would otherwisecome tothe state SeeBrown / Page5A
consideration • Marysz Rames is one two finalists at Wayne State College By Dick Mason The Observer
Eastern Oregon University's field of presidential finalists is now down to three. Marysz Rames, one of the finalists, withdrew her name from consideration on Sunday, according to David Nelson, chairman of the EOU Board of Trustees. Rames, the interim president of Dakota State University in Madison, South Dakota, announced she was withdrawing in an email to Cathy Dyck, the interim chancellor of the Oregon University System. "She basically said she wanted to stay in the Midwest," Nelson said. SeeRames / Page5A
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