60YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

July 26, 1957

Lyle R. Wolff, newly appointed circuit court judge for Baker County, today announced that he had received Oregon Supreme Court assignments to three judicial districts.

25YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

July 27, 1992

Above average precipitation in June and July has helped Phillips Reservoir gain about 3,000 acre-feet of water, according to Jim Colton, manager of Baker Valley Irrigation District.

If generous rains had not come to Baker County in June, Phillips would be at 15,000 acre-feet instead of the existing 18,000-acre-feet, Colton said.

10YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

July 26, 2007

Baker County commissioners appointed an 11-member committee Wednesday and assigned it just one mission: give Forest Supervisor Steve Ellis enough reasons to adopt Baker County’s option for closing Maintenance Level 1 roads in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.

ONEYEAR AGO

from the Baker City Herald

July 27, 2016

Although corporate officials have not confirmed it, Baker City will likely have two different grocery stores this fall.

Two stores owned by one corporation, that is.

Albertsons LLC has changed its mind about what it plans to do with the empty building that most recently housed a Haggen store that closed last fall after the company declared bankruptcy.

In May the firm announced that it was going to open the store as an Albertsons.

Just over a month later, Jill McGinnis, communications manager and public affairs for the company’s Portland division, wrote in an email to the Herald that the company had decided to operate two Safeway stores in Baker City.