A program that brought homeless drug addicts to Baker City, where they stayed in local motels and were driven to a Pendleton treatment center to receive methadone, has been shut down when an agency canceled its contract with the transportation company. Local law enforcement said the program was not appropriate, as did officials from New Directions Northwest, who were not involved in setting up the program but responded to try to help the patients, who numbered about 30, after the contract was canceled.

https://www.bakercityherald.com/news/local/patients-in-methadone-program-staying-in-motels-in-baker-city/article_e3b13e52-8662-11ef-9d4a-6fb15dc899f0.html

A Sumpter resident thanked firefighters who worked on the blaze that destroyed the house she and her husband bought in 2021. Ananda Bode was especially grateful when Wes Morgan, chief of the Powder River Rural Fire Protection District, rescued the couple’s pet turtle, which survived the fire in a stock tank of water.

https://www.bakercityherald.com/news/local/sumpter-resident-whose-home-burned-grateful-for-outpouring-of-love-from-community/article_cbdbaa46-85b9-11ef-b0e1-d30be996a186.html

Chris Braswell, who grew up in Baker City and graduated from BHS in 1999, described his experience when Hurricane Milton swept through the Florida city where he has lived since 2020.

https://www.bakercityherald.com/news/local/former-baker-city-resident-describes-experience-riding-out-hurricane-milton/article_7ab61b2e-8744-11ef-ae21-b76fd15e8263.html