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October 6, 2014
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A special good day to Herald subscriber Marcy Haines of Baker City.
Local, 3A PORTLAND — Farmers and ranchers in Oregon who previously were forced to sell livestock due to drought have an extended period of time in which to replace the livestock and defer tax on any gains from the forced sales, the Internal Revenue Service announced Friday. Baker County ranchers are eligible.
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Oregon, 6A PORTLAND — A generation of Oregonians has neverlived under a Republican governor, and state Rep. Dennis Richardson would like to show them what it's like. If Richardson is to topple Oregon's longest serving governor, though, he'll have to introduce himself to an electorate that doesn't know him and overcome his party's dismal reputation in Oregon. But his biggest hurdle is more fundamentalhis conservative views on abortion and gay marriage, and the fiery language he's used to express them.
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The BLM's Baker Field Office in Baker City will be closed Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 6 and 7, whileemployees move into a new building. The Baker Field Office has shared space in a group of modular buildings at 328511th St. for the past eight years. The new office is in a remodeled building just across H Street, at 3100 H St. on the former site of New Tribes Mission. "The move has been in the planning stages for a long time, we're looking forward to getting settled in," said Lori Wood, Baker Office field manager. "We're also glad that we were able to use local contractors in the remodel." The contact information for the Baker Field Office will remain the same — 541-523-1256. The Baker Field Office plans to re-open for normal business on Wednesday, Oct. 8.
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Baker City officials are inviting residents to comment on the city's draft plan for managingits10,000-acrewatershed. The city has scheduled a public meeting for Thursday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 1655 First St. The draft watershed management plan will be available on the city's website, www. bakercitycom, on Oct. 9. The city gets about 88 percent of its water from streams, springs and one reservoir in the 10,000-acre watershed, which is on the east slopes of the Elkhorn Mountains about 10 miles west of town. See WatershedIPage8A
Barley Brown's caps festival with 4 medals Barley Brown's Brew Pub of Baker City toppedallotherOregon breweriesby bringing home four medals from the Great American Beer Festival this weekend in Boulder, Colorado. No other Oregon brewer won more than three medals. Barley Brown's won two gold medals, for its Hand Truck pale ale and its Fresh Hop Pallet Jack IPA. The brewery also won a silver medal for its Disorder, an American-style stout, and bronze for Turmoil, an American-style black ale. Barley Brown's, which operates both a brew pub and a tap house in Baker City, won five medals at the 2013 Great American Beer Festival, including three golds. Last year the brewery was also named the nation's top Very Small Brewer, and Eli Dickison and Marks Lanham were named topbrewers in thatcategory.
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• Oct. 16 public meeting will presentdraftversion of watershed management plan
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Canadian woman dies in I-84 crash
A rainbow of colors drifted over the Baker Sports Complex Saturday morning when about 100 joggers, including Remington Benson,7, ran a 1"/~-mile course to raise money for a family in need. Suzy Cole, left, helped coordinate the event, which was put on by her Baker High School Leadership Class.
The sky was bright blue Saturday morning at the Baker Sports ' rfrlrp Complex. Except for the clouds of red, yellow, orange, green, purple and, yes, blue. The second-annual Color Dash raisedan estimated $600 to help a local family, said Suzy Cole, who teaches the Baker High School Leadership Class,the event's sponsor. About 100 people ran a 1.5-mile course, during which students festooned runners' white shirts with bright-col ored clouds ofchalk. Colesaid a Leadership Class committee, led this year and last year by Makenna Bachman, talked with principals at Baker Photo by Tammy Fry schools and then chose a family as The Color Dash concluded Saturday morning at the Baker the beneficiary of the Color Dash. Sports Complex with a final, fireworks-style release of The event will return next year. colored chalk. •
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A 20-year-old woman from British Columbia, Canada, died in a one-vehicle crash in the eastbound freeway lanes between Baker City and NorthPowder Friday morning. Janelle Ceclia Lawler of Hope, British Columbia, was pronounced dead at the scene near the Baker Valley Rest Area, about 10 miles north of Baker City, Lt. Gregg Hastings, Oregon State Police spokesman, stated in a press release. Lawler, who was a back seat passenger, was traveling with four other people en route to a conference in Utah, Hastings said. The crash happed at 5:45 a.m. Friday when a 2009Pontiacfour-doordriven by Brandon M. Goeders, 20, of Port Moody, British Columbia, drifted onto the left shoulder of the highway. See Crash/Page 8A
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