Alex Paul
Michael Riggle, director of the Sweet Home Senior Center since May 2003, was released from his duties Monday after the Oregon Department of Transportation threatened to pull funding for local bus programs, which fell under his supervision.
In a letter to Don Hopkins, Senior Center board president, Tim McQueary, mayor, and Roger Nyquist, chair of the Linn County Board of Commissioners, ODOT administrator Martin Loring noted, “We have recently been apprised of certain…