50YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

October 16, 1967

Irrigation water supplies in Baker, Union and Wallowa counties in 1967 have been satisfactory except for those areas that had no stored water to draw on, according to A.J. Webber, State Conservationist, Soil Conservation Service, Portland , Ore., and prepared by W.T. Frost, State Snow Survey Supervisor.

25YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

October 16, 1992

A $211,146 Oregon Community Development Block Grant has been awarded for a youth center in Halfway.

10YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

October 16, 2007

Monday morning Kevin Neeley told public officials in Baker and Union counties how to follow Oregon’s public meeting and public records laws.

After lunch, he taught a group of reporters from four area newspapers how to track those public officials to make sure they’re doing what they’re supposed to.

Neeley, a former spokesman for the Oregon Department of Justice who’s now a lobbyist for the state’s district attorneys, offered two training sessions at the Geiser Grand Hotel.

ONEYEAR AGO

from the Baker City Herald

October 17, 2016

The past four days in Baker County were soggier than the previous three months.

Which is not something typically true of October hereabouts.

It’s the fourth-driest month at the Baker City Airport, with an average total of 0.66 of an inch of rain.

But the past few months have been so parched, even by the area’s admittedly arid standards, that a couple of modest autumn rainstorms seem significant by comparison.

Rainfall at the airport from Thursday through Sunday totaled 0.52 of an inch.

That’s more than twice as much rain as was recorded at the airport — 0.19 of an inch — from July 13 through Oct. 12.