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updated: Fri Jul 18, 2008 06:38 pm

Baker City News

Local news for Baker City, OR continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

11 hrs ago | HeraldTribune.com

The king of shrinkage

Published: Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:37 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 9:46 a.m. In 1999, when he started his online business at theUFOstore.com, Randy Haragan wanted to become "the ...

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Wed Jul 16, 2008

Acton Institute PowerBlog

CRC Sea to Sea Tour Week 2

The second week of the CRC's Sea to Sea bike tour is in the books. The second leg of the journey took the bikers from Kennewick to Boise, a total distance of 321 miles.

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Mon Jul 14, 2008

Oregonlive.com

Mining prospects return as Halfway ponders its post-Half.com future

On a boy scout camping trip to Alvord Desert, Scott Davies powers his scooter over the desert floor with Steens Mountain in the background.

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Related Topix: Halfway, OR, Wallowa, OR

Sat Jul 12, 2008

The Oregonian

E. Ore. farmers say hoppers heading for crops

Faced with an alarming infestation of grasshoppers that have started to move from rangeland into crop fields, farmers in northern Baker County put $46,000 into a kitty for aerial spraying of a pesticide.

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Related Topix: Haines, OR, Baker County, OR, Agriculture, Science

Wed Jul 09, 2008

The Oregonian

Baker City council to revisit prayer issue

The Baker City Council plans to take another look at its policy on prayer at council meetings.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News

Thu Jul 03, 2008

Daily Breeze

San Pedro chair balloonist inspires Oregon man

Kent Couch is at it again. While the rest of the country is sleeping off Fourth of July revels on Saturday, he and a host of volunteers will be up before the sun at his gas station in Bend, Ore.

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Related Topix: North Powder, OR, Bend, OR

Mon Jun 30, 2008

OregonLive.com

Might Baker County become the hop growing hub for craft beers?

This is not as strange as it seems. Growing hops in Eastern Oregon. And with a worldwide shortage of the beer flavoring, it may pencil out.

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Related Topix: Drink, Beer, Baker County, OR

Sat Jun 28, 2008

Record-Courier

June 26, 2008 Front Page

Above, the high speed Goldrush Criterium was held Saturday through downtown Baker City.

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Related Topix: Baker County, OR

Thu Jun 26, 2008

Oregonlive.com

Task force favors new I-5 bridge, light rail

The Journey Through Time Scenic Byway stretches 286 miles through north central to eastern Oregon.

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Tue Jun 24, 2008

Oregonlive.com

Hardest-hit counties

The Journey Through Time Scenic Byway stretches 286 miles through north central to eastern Oregon.

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Sun Jun 22, 2008

KTVB Boise

Oregon's sheep industry relegated to b-a-a-a-c-k-yards

Oregon's once-massive sheep and wool industry is gone, but vestiges remain in back-yard operations like Suzen Fors, who got started raising a few 25 years ago when her daughter raised lambs as a 4H project.

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Related Topix: North Powder, OR, Oregon, Baker County, OR, La Grande, OR

Fri Jun 20, 2008

Record-Courier

June 19 2008 Front Page

Chrome glittered and the low rumble of Harleys and Hondas reverberated through the streets of Baker City last weekend as leather clad motorcycle enthusiasts gathered for the annual Hells Canyon Motorcycle ...

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Related Topix: Richland, OR, Halfway, OR

Wed Jun 18, 2008

News-Register

County picks new chief of corrections

Yamhill County has hired a Marion County parole and probation administrator to take the reins from Richard Sly when the long-time corrections chief retires at the end of the month.

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Related Topix: Yamhill County, OR

Mon Jun 16, 2008

The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

OR: Prison expansions bring small gains

The Oregon State Penitentiary was built in Portland in 1851 and relocated to Salem in 1866, where it remained the state's only major prison for 100 years.

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Related Topix: Tillamook, OR, Pendleton, OR, Umatilla County, OR

Fri Jun 13, 2008

Record-Courier

June 12, 2008 Front Page

From Summer Days and Cowboy Horsepower to a Vine-Ripened Tomato and Filet of Fish, the artist's renditions in the Art About Agriculture exhibit portray various aspects of farm life and our natural resources.

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Related Topix: Baker County, OR

Wed Jun 11, 2008

NW Republican

Kulo's hand forced on card-check

Pro-union Gov. gets pro-business test Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has been invited to referee a raging Oregon agricultural labor dispute, forcing a dramatic leadership test on the two-term Democrat.

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Related Topix: Union, OR, Agriculture, Science, North Powder, OR, Oregon

Thu Jun 05, 2008

KMTR Eugene

Spring chinook fishery to open on Powder River

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will release about 300 spring chinook salmon into the Powder River in Baker City.

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Tue Jun 03, 2008

KOHD

Footage of Balloon Flight Released

Now his chair and camera have been recovered and the footage is pulled. "It's kind of a fun story to tell and I think that the footage is going to show people what I felt like and what I saw from there," Couch ...

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Sun Jun 01, 2008

Statesman Journal

Kulongoski tries to get feedlots, workers together

BAKER CITY - Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski has intervened in a labor dispute at three Pacific Northwest feedlots that has put the future of some Oregon ranchers in jeopardy.

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Related Topix: Nyssa, OR

Fri May 30, 2008

Oregonlive.com

State agency accuses three Union-Baker ESD teachers of misconduct

Posted by The Associated Press May 30, 2008 05:38AM The state agency that licenses Oregon teachers has accused three Union-Baker Education Service District employees of misconduct, according to this story from ...

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Related Topix: Haines, OR, Union, OR, Union County, OR

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