60YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

June 21, 1957

A daring daylight case of larceny occurred yesterday at 2:30 in the afternoon at the Muegge drugstore when a thief grabbed a money box and money bag containing $100 and ran out the back door. The man was described as being between 25 and 30 years old, weighing from 140 to 150 pounds and about 5 feet, 11 inches tall.

25YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

June 22, 1992

A range fire near Weatherby had burned an estimated 500 acres on Bureau of Land Management land this morning.

10YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

June 21, 2007

Nearly 400 bicyclists will gasp, suffer and wheeze Friday, and the culprits are three crumbly old concrete culverts.

Really old.

Eighty-seven years, to be precise, which as concrete goes is sort of ancient.

That trio of culverts is supposed to divert water beneath a section of Oregon Highway 237 between North Powder and Union. The culverts don’t divert so well these days.

Which is why the Oregon Department of Transportation is replacing them this week. And why Highway 237 is closed. And why, ultimately, the 370 or so cyclists who entered the Elkhorn Classic Stage Race will endure such respiratory agony during Friday’s first stage.

ONEYEAR AGO

from the Baker City Herald

June 22, 2016

The problem with the federal government, Congressman Greg Walden believes, is not that it’s doing too much work on public land but that it’s doing too little.

Walden, the Republican who represents Baker County, cited a couple of contrasting examples of what he considers misplaced federal priorities when he spoke to about 60 people Monday evening in a town hall meeting at the Sunridge.