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Oversize truck on Highway 86 delayed to Dec. 1 An oversize truck transport of transformer equipmenton Highway 86 from Baker City to the Idaho border that will cause traffic delays of up to 20 minutes has been postponed to Dec.1. The shipment had been scheduled for this Thursday and Friday. The load is expected to take about half a day as it travels around10 miles per hour through Baker County, primarily on Highway 86. To evenly distribute the 357,636-pound gross weight of the shipment, it will move down the center of the roadway, taking up both travel lanes of two-lane highway. Traffic will be stopped at regular intervals with pilot cars informing the movers when to pull over to allow oncoming vehicles and backed up traffic to pass. The oversize load will begin its journey about 7 p.m. on Dec. 1 near the intersection of 10th and Broadway streets in Baker City, then travel north on 10th Street to Hughes Lane, east on Hughes Lane to Cedar Street, then north to Highway 86. The transport will take a short detour west of Richland along Dance Hall Road and Dry Gulch Road to avoid an irrigation line that crosses over the state highway.
Firewood cutting season ends soon The firewood cutting seasonon theWa llowaWhitman National Forest ends Nov. 30. Woodcutting will be allowed again starting May1, 2015. The Forest Service prohibits woodcutting during the winter and early spring to prevent possible damage to roads and the ground from laden trucks operating on damp soil, and to avoid having woodcutters mistakenly cut live tamaracks, which lose their needles in fall and can appear to be dead.
WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY STARTS AT 4 P.M. TODAY
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ROADS COULD BE SLIPPERY AGAIN TONIGHT,SATURDAY ASA STORM BRINGS SNOW, FREEZING RAIN AND RAIN TO BAKER COUNTY
The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest is giving the public four more months to review maps showing existing roads and trails and to recommend corrections to those maps. The maps, released earlier this year, are part of the Wallowa-Whitman's controversial effort toadoptanew Travel Management Plan, which likely will prohibit motorized vehicles iexcept snowmobiles) from some roads where vehicles are allowed now.
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About 60 parents and caregiverslearned more about elementary school math Tuesday evening during a family involvement night at Brooklyn Primary School.
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The parking lot at the Baker Truck Corral looked like, well, a truck corralThursday morning. The westbound lanes of Interstate 84 were closed for several hours, forcing truck drivers to park and wait for the highway to re-open, which it did around 10:30 a.m.
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A strange Thursday morning for travelers on Interstate 84 through Baker County was all too familiar for Kurt Miller. Miller, who owns the Baker Truck Corral, isn't shocked when the freeway is closed. Even if, as was the case Thursday, the region's main arterial was wet rather than icy or snowy. "Just the usual," Miller said. The problem that prompted the closure Thursday morning was about 100 miles away. Freezing rain slathered the freeway with black ice from Pendleton west into the Columbia Basin. The Oregon Department of Transportation iODOTl initially closed the westbound lanes of the freeway near Pendleton early Thursday. But as Miller knows well,"there's only so much room for traffic at the various locations." LaterThursday morning ODOT extended the westbound freeway closure to La Grande. Baker City is the next domino in line, and around 6:30 a.m. Thursday the westbound lanes were closed
Inversion fouls air
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The temperature inversion has trapped something besides cold air in Baker Valley over the past week. Pollution. The stagnant atmosphere has allowed particulatesthe tiny bits of carbon and other stuff in woodsmoke, for instance — to accumulate and to push the air quality in Baker City into the moderate category. But not by much. The air quality index
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This is what greeted travelers on the Campbell Street onramp to westbound 1-84 on Thursday morning. here as well. The closure was briefly extended to Ontario before the westbound lanes re-opened around 10:30 a.m.
Miller said the morning was busy. "But it's not like we're not used to it,"hesaid.
iAQIl has been moderate the past six days. The moderate categoryranges from 51 to
100. Baker City's daily AQIs during that span were 54, 59, 59, 64, 65 and, on Thursday,
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The AQI is divided into six categories:
• 0-50: Good • 51-100: Moderate • 101-150: Unhealthy for sensitive groups • 151-200: Unhealthy • 201-300: Very unhealthy • 301-500: Hazardous
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