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Fires flaring around region

POMEROY––Wildfire season is here.

A fire dubbed the Cougar Creek Fire, located about a mile west of Highway 129 and the Grand Ronde River intersection has grown to 10,766 acres and is 23% contained, according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources Southeast Region.

There's another small fire across the state line in Idaho, the Billy Creek Fire, which was first reported July 3 along the...