50YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

March 26, 1968

Baker Street, between Main Street and Resort Street, will not be vacated. A motion was made and passed to keep the street open, at the Baker City Council meeting Monday night.

25YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

March 26, 1993

HALFWAY — A petition drive is under way to recall four of the Pine-Eagle school board’s seven members.

The recall effort — headed by Deborah Mader and Larry Rasmussen of Halfway — is based on the board’s March 17 decision to fire a popular English teacher at Pine-Eagle High School and to change a full-time home economics teacher to half time.

10YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

March 26, 2008

Is there, as one new local entrepreneur puts it, a “budding Baker business vibe?”

Ann Mehaffy thinks so.

“It seems that people who move here and start a new business are young Baby Boomers who really want to be here for the lifestyle, who want to live here for the authenticity of the community and the size of the community,” said Mehaffy, program director for Historic Baker City Inc.

ONEYEAR AGO

from the Baker City Herald

March 27, 2017

The owner of Sears stores in Baker City and La Grande said Friday the businesses are not in danger of closing, despite a pessimistic statement last week from the holding company for Sears and Kmart.

“The local stores are doing just fine,” Scott Hester, owner of the two stores, said Friday. “They’re making money and doing well. We’re not in any jeopardy by any means.”

Hester, who lives in Baker City, said his stores are part of Sears Hometown and Outlets, a separate division of the company that also includes Sears Holding, which issued a statement last week.