50YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

March 30, 1968

O.E. Coombs, 120 Bridge St., is a real “squirrely” character.

He’s nuts about squirrels, and they’re nuts about him.

The 88-year-old Baker man has been training the quick, bouncy creatures the past six years at his Baker home. He now has five young ones under training, one that goes right down into his pocket after the tasty peanut morsels he feeds them.

25YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

March 30, 1993

A Baker County wilderness guide said at Friday’s chamber of commerce Lunch Bunch the state should change its hunting regulation to allow more out-of-state people to vacation in Oregon.

10YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

March 30, 2008

The fair manager never doubted.

Neither did the mother of the bride.

The Baker County Community and Events Center was completed just in the nick of time to allow the decorators to take over for the renovated building’s inaugural event — Saturday afternoon’s wedding reception following nuptials at St. Francis Catholic Church for Kari and Michael Van Artsdalen, an event that attracted more than 400 guests.

ONEYEAR AGO

from the Baker City Herald

March 31, 2017

ENTERPRISE — Using cyanide traps to kill coyotes was halted in six Eastern Oregon counties to protect the region’s burgeoning wolf population.

Following the unintentional kill of a gray wolf Feb. 10 in Wallowa County, an agreement between Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the agency that manages gray wolves in Eastern Oregon, and USDA Wildlife Services, the federal agency that controls predators on private land, M-44s, spring-activated devices containing cyanide powder, will no longer be used to control predators in Baker, Wallowa, Union, Umatilla, Morrow and Grant counties.