On Feb. 27 students from Baker High School, as well as Powder Valley, Pine Eagle, Huntington, Burnt River and Imbler high schools, had a chance to learn about dozens of potential careers during a day-long fair at BHS.

The first such event at the school in several years 106 adults, representing several dozen professions, spoke with students.

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A 37-year-old Wallowa man died in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in the Elkhorn Mountains near Anthony Lake on March 6. Nicholas Scott Burks and his companion were experienced backcountry skiers, and both had avalanche beacons as well as backpack-carried air bags that deploy during an avalanche and can prevent a skier from becoming buried. Burks’ air bag worked, but he suffered fatal injuries when he was caught up in the avalanche on a steep, rocky slope on the north side of Gunsight Mountain.

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Eight of the Baker boys basketball players competing in the Class 4A state tournament this week at Forest Grove High School have been teammates since they were in elementary school. The octet reflected on their experiences traveling to tournaments across the Northwest and playing in hundreds of games together. They also talked about how the state tournament will be their last time as teammates, as two of the players, Hudson Spike and Paul Hobson, are seniors.

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The Baker School Board has hired Casey Hallgarth, principal at Prairie City High School, as superintendent. Hallgarth, who grew up in Elgin, will replace Erin Lair, who announced last November that she would leave the job at the end of the fiscal year, June 30.

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