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CCMSD board at odds over questions of conduct

Questions of conduct were the subject of unusual scrutiny during last Thursday’s meeting of the Crook County Medical Services District Board of Trustees. Several topics were introduced to the agenda, including proposed changes to who should be allowed to talk to the press, accusations of threats being made against trustees and a disagreement over whether a public document should have been made available to the newspaper.

Though it was only alluded to throughout most of the discussions, all three topics appeared to center on a single issue: the rift that has arisen between board members recentl...