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Helicopter flights to aid in precise geologic maps
Baker City Herald, Ore. via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMay 8—Baker City and Baker Valley residents might see a strange-looking helicopter flying low later this month. The aircraft will have something resembling an insect's proboscis jutting ahead ...
Baker City no longer piping wastewater into Powder River
Baker City Herald, Ore. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJun. 15—For the first time in more than half a century, Baker City no longer has to discharge its treated wastewater into the Powder River north of town. The city had piped the wastewater into ...
Fire burns 130 acres on foothill just southwest of Baker City
Baker City Herald, Ore. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 6—Wildfire season is waning, but Baker City residents had a nearby reminder that it's not over. A blaze that started early Thursday afternoon, Oct. 6 near the base of the foothill, about ...
State still investigating foothill fire near Baker City
Baker City Herald, Ore. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 10—Investigators from the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) were working Monday, Oct. 10 to try to pinpoint the cause of a fire that burned about 130 acres on the foothill just southwest ...
Pumpkins, a helicopter and a bull's-eye: Unusual fundraiser benefits Spc. Mabry J. Anders Foundation
Baker City Herald, Ore. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 3—Think you can hit a bull's-eye with a pumpkin? Think you can do that from a helicopter? Tickets are on sale now for the Pumpkin Chunkin' Bash, organized by Baker Aircraft at the Baker ...
Update: New closures for Cedar Fire at Waldo Lake
Statesman Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis story was updated at 9:56 a.m. Monday A new closure order was issued around Waldo Lake on Monday morning in response to the growth of the Cedar...
Wind-fanned lightning fire prompted precautionary evacuation notices near Medical Springs Sunday...
Baker City Herald, Ore. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 1—The combustible combination of lightning, a record-setting heat wave, a weeks-long dry spell and gale-force winds on Sunday afternoon, July 31, contributed to Baker County's biggest wildfire ...
Eagle Cap Wilderness fires grow
Baker City Herald, Ore. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 31—The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest has closed sections of three trails that are near one of the two growing lightning-sparked fires the agency is monitoring in the Eagle Cap Wilderness ...
Surviving a war, and a century
Baker City Herald, Ore. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNov. 11—Jim Lampkins doesn't bring up World War II very often. His daughter, Linda Noble, said she hadn't heard many of his war stories until just a few years ago. "He didn't talk about it very ...
Grants Pass man injured in fall from horse near Red's Horse Ranch
The Observer, La Grande, Ore. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNov. 1—LA GRANDE — A 62-year-old Grants Pass man suffered potentially serious injuries to his pelvis after fall from a horse in the Red's Horse Ranch area the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 31. The ...
