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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us January 31, 2006 the Valley In Brief Talent City Council The Talent City Council will consider a resolution to officially support the agenda of the State Housing Alliance at its meeting Wednesday. The council will meet at the Talent Community Center, 206 E. Main St., at 6:30 p.m. Councilors voted to join the coalition of housing advocates, local governments and business interests working to increase resources dedicated to affordable housing at their Jan. 19 meeting. The council may also appoint Peter Hille for the final vacancy on the Talent Planning Commission. Hille, a GIS manager for Sky Research in Ashland, has lived in and around Talent for four years. On Thursday, planning commissioners recommended Hille be added to the commission. The city council will also hold a public hearing on an ordinance to adopt the Oregon State Building specialty codes that also relates to building codes, consider a resolution related to updates of the Emergency Management Plan and give direction on handling a review of the proposed police manual. Rajneesh follower avoids prison PORTLAND — A disciple of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was sentenced to five years probation for conspiring to kill a U.S. attorney more than 20 years ago. Catherine Stork, 60, pleaded guilty last fall, joining six other followers who had earlier done the same. The others were sentenced to prison for two to five years. Stork was a member of a commune that operated on a 100-square-mile ranch in the Central Oregon town of Antelope from 1981 to 1985. The commune members plotted to take over the local county government in 1984, spiking salad bars in The Dalles with salmonella in an effort to incapacitate non-Rajneeshee voters. A year later, the Bhagwan’s inner circle conspired to kill Turner, after he was appointed to head a federal grand jury investigation of the commune. Stork and six other disciples were indicted in 1990. But Stork refused to leave Germany, where she is a naturalized citizen. In 1991, Germany declined an extradition request from the United States. Last year, Stork voluntarily returned to Portland to face the federal charges in order to be free to travel to Australia to visit her dying son. U.S. District Judge Malcolm F. Marsh let her leave the United States to see her son, returning to be sentenced this week. “I think there are times when justice trumps mercy,” Marsh said. “There are other times mercy trumps justice. We have such a case here.” Stork could have been sentenced to life in prison. “I think I’ll be paying for the rest of my life,” Stork said outside the courtroom. “My debt is great.” — Staff reports DailyTidings.com Home Page Archives | Revels | Classifieds | Real Estate Guide | Weather | Subscribe | Contact Us Copyright 2005 Ashland Daily Tidings and Ottaway Newspapers All Rights Reserved Deep Muscle Stimulator Ceramic Piggy Banks FREE Entertainment Guide Women's & Men's Slippers Accelerate Weightloss Products Backpacks Generic Viagra Vegas Travel Guide Search Engine Optimization Sportsbook Absinthe Supply Student Loans Hotel & Airline Reservations African Safari Hammocks Helzberg Diamonds Online Casinos Community Bonus Casino King of Spirits ink cartridges Mortgage Calculator Security Systems Mailing Lists Click Here Advertisement .:Advertisements:. Site Search: RESOURCES - Mail Tribune News - ODOT Road Cams