Wallowa County News

The Wallowa County District Attorney's office today identified the man shot and killed by sheriff's deputies on Wednesday at a campground in northeastern Oregon as Roy S. Bass, 52.

The Wallowa County Sheriff's Office was involved in a fatal shooting Wednesday afternoon, The Wallowa County Chieftain is reporting this morning .

Dale E. Basye has a resume fit for someone in Portland's creative class -- receptionist, film reviewer, advertising copywriter, Web site guy -- and a sense of humor that has found a home in middle-grade literature.

September 30, 2009, 8 a.m. Judy Wing, 541-519-4623 Christie Shaw, 541-886-2881 Big Sheep Fire Cools Baker City, OR.

Superintendent Rhonda Shirley and Joseph High Principal Sherri Kilgore have led Joseph High staff and students to high academic achievement.

I was never prepared for the job, not from the first moment I discovered I was pregnant with my fourth child.

Collectively, they've been part of the Dayton area for about 250 years - Orva Gubser since about 1932, Wayne "Swede" Lien on and off since the mid-1930s, Rosie Morgan for 65 years and Bill Kotch on a permanent basis since 1971.

It's been a relatively mild fire season in Oregon so far and -- knock on dry wood -- fire agencies are hoping it stays that way.

A Columbian ground squirrel at the top of Mount Howard. The Wallowa Lake Tramway is still one of Oregon's great summer tourist attractions.

A Columbian ground squirrel at the top of Mount Howard. The Wallowa Lake Tramway is still one of Oregon's great summer tourist attractions.

A Columbian ground squirrel at the top of Mount Howard. The Wallowa Lake Tramway is still one of Oregon's great summer tourist attractions.

Tuesday evening's intense lightning activity sparked 18 fires across the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest and Oregon Department of Forestry protected lands.

Budget to moderate. * La Laguna, 307 W. North St., Enterprise; 541-426-3500. Lunch and dinner.

Not good news:one of the coolest beer festivals, Bronze Blues and Brews in Joseph , up in Oregon's prettiest corner, the upper right, has been canceled this year -- they've already set aside Aug.

We were getting a cool reception from the locals at the Imnaha Tavern, in that town of about 70 citizen in the northeast corner of Oregon, on the night of July 4, so I bought a round.

I asked last week what you were doing this summer. In addition to my usual reposts, I wanted to post a summary from one reader of his recent doings.

Oregonians angry about parked railcars near wilderness area Residents of Union and Wallowa counties aren't happy about the deal with Union Pacific that allows hundreds of railcars to be parked on 30 miles of railroad tracks owned by the Oregon counties, but county officials said they have no choice as they need the rental money to make the payments ...

Part of a short-line railroad in Oregon's ruggedly beautiful Wallowa County has become a 30-mile-long parking lot for about 700 idled railcars, some blighted with graffiti.

A grand jury has ruled an Oregon state trooper was justified in the shooting death of a Wallowa man.

Julie Ann Feigleson and Susan Salkield have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Lois D. Griggs, Deceased, Probate No.