50YEARS AGO

from the Democrat-Herald

April 30, 1968

Salaries, fire rating and street lighting were discussed at a special Baker City Council meeting at the council chambers in City Hall Monday night.

On city salaries, City Manager Vern Jacobson explained recommendations for pay scales based on the average paid by several cities of similar size to Baker. He also noted that no employee at a given level could receive more than $600 a year more than a beginning employee in the same level.

25YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

April 30, 1993

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service, anticipating government logging cutbacks to half the traditional levels, tentatively has identified 62 national forests, including the Wallowa-Whitman headquartered in Baker City, as candidates for ending commercial timber harvests altogether, an agency official said today.

10YEARS AGO

from the Baker City Herald

April 30, 2008

If lawbreaking freeway travelers thought Oregon State Police were out to get them as they traveled through Baker County this past weekend, they were right.

The Baker City OSP patrol office conducted a “focused travel safety patrol effort” Friday through Sunday along Interstate 84 from Huntington to North Powder, said OSP Sgt. Ty Duby.

ONEYEAR AGO

from the Baker City Herald

April 28, 2017

If you’ve been thinking that it’s getting sort of late in spring and you still haven’t confined your winter coat to the closet to accumulate its summer’s patina of dust, rest assured that your internal thermostat has not gone haywire.

This has been one of the chillier springs in Baker County since World War II.

It’s not that 2017’s version has been terribly frigid based on individual daily temperatures or even on monthly averages.