Ceremony Honors Oregon Trail Interpretive Center’s 25th Year

Center Celebration

Former Oregon Gov. Barbara Roberts said the efforts to plan and build the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center were an incredible accomplishment of federal, state, city and county agencies as well as charitable foundations and community members. “It’s amazing to think of the teamwork that made (the center) possible,” Roberts told the Herald before she spoke during the center’s 25th anniversary celebration Thursday morning. ...MORE

Turning Back the Pages

From the Baker City Herald's historical files

60YEARS AGO from the Democrat-Herald May 25, 1957 A boy catching a fish in Unity reservoir is sometimes special. A boy named Jim Stewart performed this feat and went on to write about it in his high school English class. The result of his fish ...MORE

Class 4A/3A/2A/1A Girls State Tennis

Huggins finishes fourth

Baker’s Gracie Huggins placed fourth at the Class 4A/3A/2A/1A state girls tennis tournament Saturday at Oregon State University in Corvallis. The BHS senior’s placing is the highest any Baker tennis player has finished in school history. Friday, the fourth-seeded Huggins defeated Crystal Peng of Delphian ...MORE

Greater Oregon League District Track Meet

Half-dozen Bulldogs to state

A half-dozen Baker track and field athletes are headed to the Class 4A state meet next weekend in Eugene. The six Bulldogs qualified for state after placing first or second in their events Saturday at the Greater Oregon League district meet at Baker High School. ...MORE

EDITORIAL

Sluggish recovery

Oregon’s government puts out some interesting reports, including a recent study examining the struggles rural counties, including Baker, have had in recovering from the Great Recession of 2007-09. Trouble is, we’re not sure the state’s leaders are reading these informative analyses. The study we cited ...MORE

Letters to the Editor for May 26, 2017

Campaign against co-sleeping is not necessary Gentlemen, and it has been mostly gentlemen, back off. When you can do what I can do, namely be pregnant, give birth, and nurse, then you can judge me for sleeping with my infants. Please remove the hateful billboards, ...MORE

Calls Of The Wild

NORTH POWDER — If not for the frozen saliva, Justus Gray might never have started his business. The saliva, to be clear, was his own. Gray was blowing into a plastic duck call, hoping to lure a few mallards to within shotgun range. Except it ...MORE

Bigfoot in the Blues?

There’s a plaster cast of a footprint on the wall of Scott Violette’s basement and it’s the sort of thing that could give a kid nightmares for weeks. Violette, who lives in Baker City, is wearing a camouflage cap emblazoned with the slogan “Squatch Hunter.” ...MORE