60YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

July 27, 1957

Two boys reported lost in the Unity area were found by searchers at 12:30 a.m. after the boys had been missing for about four hours.

David Gray, 8 and his brother, Richard, 3, were found in a heavily wooded area about ten miles southwest of Unity.

25YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

July 28, 1992

NORTH POWDER — Idaho Timber Corporation completed its deal Monday to sell the timber holdings of its North Powder mill to Boise Cascade but has not decided the future of the mill itself.

Larry Williams, president of ITC, said the company finalized its agreement with Boise Cascade for the purchase of timber on privately owned land of ITC in Northeast Oregon as well as the logs that already are harvested and are sitting at the mill.

10YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

July 27, 2007

Firefighters flew in, literally in some cases, to help a local rancher attack a lightning-sparked blaze that threatened a home about three miles east of Unity on Thursday afternoon.

ONEYEAR AGO

from the Baker City Herald

July 29, 2016

Crews are mopping up a fire of undetermined cause today that burned an acre and a half on Black Mountain southeast of Phillips Lake.

Keith Dunn, U.S. Forest Service assistant fire management officer, said Thursday that a helicopter with a bucket and two small tanker planes dropped retardant on the fire to knock it down initially.

The fire was reported from Mount Ireland at 1:25 p.m. and moved from a tenth of an acre to a quarter of an acre quickly, Dunn said.

An Oregon Department of Forestry engine responded along with an engine and a tender from the Powder River Rural Fire Protection District and three Forest Service engines.

“I sent the world to it because it was the only one going,” Dunn said.