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Keep payments coming
The financial storm bearing down on a few Oregon counties has so far raised scarcely a breeze in Baker County. But although the tempest threatening Curry, Josephine and some other counties with...
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Letters to the Editor for Jan. 27, 2012
Volunteers make banquet work To the editor: What is the Baker County Chamber Banquet all about? Volunteers, that’s the short answer. The long answer: An opportunity for the community to thank...
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Rock samples will return
By JAYSON JACOBY jjacoby@bakercityherald.com For Gary Bloomer the matter was never just about a bunch of rocks. It was about history. And so he was pleased to learn recently that some stony symbols of...
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County's plan: Half-time Justice Court
By TERRI HARBER tharber@bakercityherald.com A possible plan to keep Justice Court operating will be discussed during the next Baker County commissioners meeting. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. on...
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Art of the spud
LISA BRITTON For the Baker City Herald HAINES — Pirates, owls, monsters, princesses with pink skirts — have potatoes every taken on so many appearances? Elementary students in the Baker School District...
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Letters to the Editor for Jan. 30, 2012
Keep full-time Justice Court Friday's paper details a possible plan by the county commissioners to reduce Baker's Justice Court down to a half-time position after all comments received at their Jan. 18...
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County's jobless rate exceeds state average
By TERRI HARBER tharber@bakercityherald.com The Oregon Employment Development Department created a report about the jobs outlook for Eastern Oregon as well as the rest of the state. The report was...
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Skiing: For the health of it
By LISA BRITTON For the Baker City Herald Temperatures below 10 degrees on Friday didn’t deter more than 200 youngsters from bundling up and hitting the slopes at Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort. Of...
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Baker wrestlers fall
Baker couldn't overcome five forfeits Thursday, dropping a Greater Oregon League wrestling match to La Grande 48-25 on the Tiger mats.
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Baker girls get first GOL win
Baker finally broke into the win column in the Greater Oregon League girls basketball standings Tuesday, after stopping Mac-Hi 55-26 at Milton-Freewater.
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Bulldogs clinch state berth
Baker clinched a Class 4A state playoff berth Tuesday with a 75-33 Greater Oregon League boys basketball win at Mac-Hi.
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Lots of 'finding' of Bigfoot — but nothing's ever found
You’d think, on a TV show called “Finding Bigfoot,” that maybe just once in a while, if only to mollify the habitual channel-changers, the cast would actually find, well, a Bigfoot. And I mean a real...
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Helping veterans
The event that happened Tuesday at the National Guard Armory in Baker City was at once heart-warming and heart-rending. We were gratified that so many people — about 60 —turned out to learn how to help...
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Letters to the Editor for Feb. 3, 2012
Feds force Catholics to violate beliefs To the editor: The Department of Human and Health Services has issued a mandate which will force the Catholic Church to act against its own teachings by...
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Obituaries for Feb. 3, 2012
Austin Coates Austin H. Coates, 85, died Jan. 28, 2012, at North Powder.
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Local graduation rates top state average
By CHRIS COLLINS ccollins@bakercityherald.com Most Baker County schools recorded a higher four-year graduation rate than the 67 percent state average for the 2010-11 school year, according to...
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Snowpack makes a comeback
By JAYSON JACOBY jjacoby@bakercityherald.com As February dawned, the weather in Baker County looked pretty much as it did a month ago. Uneventful, in a word, with no significant storms in the forecast....
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Bulldogs bury Mac-Hi
Baker boys basketball coach Joel Richardson says the Bulldogs have a stranglehold on the chase for the Greater Oregon League championship.
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Baker girls top Mac-Hi again
Baker's Magic Number for clinching a Class 4A state girls basketball berth is 1.
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