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Who’ll be the mayor?
Baker City Council, with 4 new members, will elect a mayor when it meets Tuesday night By Joshua Dillen jdillen@bakercityherald.com Swearing will take place Tuesday night at City Hall. Swearing in,...
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Freedom, fear and America
America hasn’t always embraced its satirists, and even the most renowned have generally been considered something other than first-rate artists. But we don’t murder them. Indeed, most of the fighting...
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Letter to the Editor for Jan. 14, 2015
Why is our country being run by Idaho Power? A few years back, there was a sign when you entered Idaho reading, “Idaho is too Great to Litter.” It should have read, “Idaho is too Illiterate to be...
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News of Record for Jan. 14, 2015
DEATHS William Hubert Scott: 98, of Ontario, a former Baker City resident, died Jan. 9, 2015, at an Ontario care center. Visitations will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Lienkaemper-Thomason Chapel in...
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BHS BOYS BASKETBALL: Bulldogs trounce Vikings, 71-34
By Gerry Steele gsteele@bakercityherald.com What a difference a couple of days makes. Four days ago Baker played one of its worst games against Bishop Kelly. But Tuesday the Bulldogs were doing just...
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Mosier elected Baker City mayor
MIke Downing elected as vice mayor By Joshua Dillen jdillen@bakercityherald.com Baker City, we have a new mayor. After new councilors Rosemary Abell, Ben Merrill, Mack Augenfeld and Jim Thomas took...
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Off To Africa
Madison Hatfield, a 16-year-old Baker High School junior, raised $9,000 so she could study in Ghana, Africa By Joshua Dillen jdillen@bakercityherald.com “Experiences are more important than...
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3 finalists for school superintendent include South Baker principal
By Chris Collins ccollins@bakercityherald.com Betty Palmer, South Baker Intermediate School principal for the past six years, is one of three finalists chosen by the Baker School Board as a possible...
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The dark days when nuclear war seemed certain
I’m too young to have a proper fear of the atomic bomb. I was born in 1970 — a quarter century after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By the late 1970s, when I was old enough to begin to comprehend such things,...
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Letter to the Editor for Jan. 16, 2015
Harvey in charge, it’s a bright new day for Baker County Good morning. It is a good morning for Baker County. Now is the beginning of a new day! After 12 years of the status quo we can now anticipate...
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Use chain saws or lose our trails
The 1964 Wilderness Act, for all its flowery language about the sanctity of nature, clearly expresses the notion that people are not only allowed to visit wilderness areas, but that such places should...
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News of Record for Jan. 16, 2015
POLICE LOG Baker City Police Arrests, citations CUSTODIAL INTERFERENCE (Baker County Circuit Court warrant): Jessica Faye Nordbye, 34, of Baker City, 5:14 p.m. Thursday, at the sheriff’s office;...
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Phone scams focus on IRS
By Joshua Dillen jdillen@bakercityherald.com Phone scams are becoming more and more commonplace these days. Some Baker City residents are getting a new kind of scam phone call purported to be from the...
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Clean Up Class
Students studying a Baker City site contaminated by chemicals By Chris Collins ccollins@bakercityherald.com Students visiting the abandoned Ostwald Machine Shop Wednesday used their imaginations to...
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Truck tangle snarls eastbound traffic from Pendleton to Ontario
The westbound freeway lanes were opened at Ontario at 3:30 p.m. today after nearly a day-long closure to allow emergency response crews to get to the massive pileup of dozens of trucks in the eastbound...
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News of Record for Jan. 19, 2015
Deaths Marilyn J. Moore: 63, of Baker City, died Jan. 15, 2015, at her home. The Nampa Funeral Home, Yraguen Chapel, is in charge of arrangements. Ruth F. Gervasio: 96, of Baker City, died Jan. 16,...
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New fire chief likes Baker
By Joshua Dillen jdillen@bakercityherald.com Living life at a slower pace is just one of the attractions that led new Fire Chief Mark John to Baker City. John is from Anahiem, California, and is...
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I-84: A Tangled Mess
By Chris Collins ccollins@bakercityherald.com Don O’Grady and Chris Combs walked away unharmed from a scene that found them caught in the middle of a massive pileup that closed the eastbound freeway...
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Police round up nine on drug charges
Baker City Police arrested nine people on multiple drug-related charges in a roundup that began at 7 a.m. today. The arrests were made after police served two search warrants and issued seven arrest...
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Walden speaks at Town Hall
By Joshua Dillen jdillen@bakercityherald.com About 40 people attended a Rotary Club meeting Monday to listen to Congressman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) speak. The meeting was the sixth of seven Town Hall...
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