Voters save Grant County’s only library

Voters save Grant County’s only library

Grant County voters recently did something rare in the solidly red Eastern Oregon county: pass a new tax. The Grant County Court, equivalent to a county board of commissioners, greenlighted the formation of a library district on June 15, after local voters approved it by wide margins in the May primary. The decision came about a year after the court considered covering a $1.5 million budget deficit in part by cutting off funding for the county’s…