After years of low-cost living, Hermiston feels crunch of growth

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After years of low-cost living, Hermiston feels crunch of growth

Jaime Ruelas grew up in Hermiston but his family is from Tecomán, Mexico.The small city near Mexico’s Pacific coast is near a lagoon with a crocodile reserve that the family so closely associated with the area they started calling their father’s hometown “La Laguna.” Decades later in 2020, Ruelas and his family fulfilled a longtime dream and opened La Laguna Sportsbar on Hermiston’s Main Street, a grinning crocodile at the center of the business…