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Good Day Wish To A Subscriber A special good day to Herald subscriber Sandra Osborne of Baker City.
Oregon, 6A Growing marijuana in Oregon is nothing new, but as recreational marijuana becomes legal, state and local officials will likely be faced with increased attention to grow sites. Conflicts between medical marijuana grow sites and adjoining property owners have been simmering for years with no clear direction from the state on pot as an agricultural product.
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• Three-day program starts M onday at BakerHigh School By Chris Collins ccollins©bakercityherald.com
A three-day program designed to introduce young women to trades and vocational opportunities in which they are traditionally underrepresented will begin Monday at Baker Technical Institute. The three-day session will run Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, said Jerry Peacock, director of BTI, which is housed at Baker
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for 3une 17 Forest owners and others interested in learning about common insects and diseases that can harm trees are invited to a free workshop on Wednesday, June 17. The day-long event will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants will meet at the OSU Baker County Extension Office, 2600 East St., and then head for the woods in vans. Pre-registration is required. To do so call the Extension Office at 541-523-641 8. Instructors include Dave Shaw, an OSU Extension forest health specialist; Christine Buhl, entomologist for the Oregon Department of Forestry; and Paul Oester, OSU Extension forester in Union County. They willcover topics such as common tree root diseases in the Blue Mountains; the recent severe branch dieback problem in ponderosa pines; western larch defoliation; needle diseases; bark beetles such as the mountain pine beetle that has been a major tree-killer across the Western U.S. and Canada; and dwarf mistletoe infestations.
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Correction: Riverfest in Elgin will take place June 20, not June 13 as published in Wednesday's GO! Magazine.
High School. There is no charge for the program. It is sponsored by the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Bureau of Labor and Industries. Meals and supplies will be provided. The first session will begin at 8 a.m. Monday in Room 138 at BTI in the northwest wing of the high school at 2500 E St.
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Self-serve gas bill advances A bill allowing people to pump their own gas in certain situations in rural counties, including Baker County, has passed the Oregon Legislature and now heads to Gov. Kate Brown's desk. House Bill 3011 would allow self-serve gas in stations when no employees are presentbasically, after the station is otherwise closed, although the bill doesn't mandate that the station be closed to allow self-service. The bill applies to counties with fewer than 40,000 residents. That includes 18 of Oregon's 36 counties.
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Chris Carmiencke, who taught math to sixth-graders at South Baker Intermediate this year and will move into the principal's job at Baker Middle School this fall, will teach the summer school math program that starts June 22. By Chris Collins ccollins©bakercityherald.com
A jet boat tour of Hells Canyon and tickets to the EastWest Shrine All-Star Football Game await Baker High School students who complete a fiveweek summer school focusing on math. The prizes are the school's way of enticing students to reap the benefits of showing up and participating in the five-week
session. ''We want to make math fun," says Ben Merrill, BHS principal. "Math is fun if they can learn and understand it." More incentives will be offered throughout the program, which begins June 22 and concludes July 23. Classes will meet from 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs-
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Budget Board authorized spending for the summer school program aspart ofthe district's overall focus on improving math scores. Merrill said student math scores at the high school have been decl ining overthepast few years, but had remained abovethestateaverage until 2013-14.
Owners of Tesla electric cars will soon have a supercharging option in Baker City. In 30 to 40 minutes theQ be able to fill up with enough electrons to travel 170 miles. In that time, their batteries will be charged to about80 percent capacity. To topofftheir"electron tanks" to fullcapacity, it will take about double that time. The Baker City station, in the Sunridge Inn parking lot between the motel and the Baker County Chamber of Commerce, is free for Tesla owners.
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FormerNiddleSchool grincinal taKesiohat Nac-Hi • Mindi Vaughan decides nottotake Baker's offer to transfer to Haines
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And as a result, she will begin work in August as principal of McLoughlin High School iMac-Hil at Milton-Freewater. Vaughan, who was Baker Middle School principal for 12 years, was scheduled to move to Haines in the fall after beingreassigned to serve as principal of
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Mindi Vaughan's desire to challenge herselfin the finalyears ofhercareer as an educator pushed her to apply for a job outside the Baker School District this sprmg.
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