By Mark Baker, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 20--BLACHLY, Ore. -- After a year of acrimonious board meetings and red-painted signs along Highway 36 reading "No Merger," Blachly-Lane Electric Cooperative members voted overwhelmingly Saturday not to join with the larger, Eugene-based Lane Electric Cooperative.
"It really didn't have much of a chance to begin with," said Junction City-area resident Gary Crum, a Blachly-Lane customer who fought vigorously against the merger. "Obviously, our membership was more in