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September 22, 2014
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Oregon, 5A PORTLAND — In the months before a marijuana legalization measure goes before voters, the leadership of Oregon's largest agencies quietly convened high-level meetings to discuss how to deal
The Baker City Council will decide Tuesday whether or not to overrule Police Chief W yn Lohner's denialofa dog kennel permit for a city resident. Tuesday's meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 1655
to reimburse him for about $9,000 in water and sewer feeshe paidforhism otel,the public. City Manager Mike Kee Always Welcome Inn. The public portion of the said the city's attorney, Brent Smith, will give councilors m eeting startsat7 p.m . The dogkennel matterhas an update on a lawsuit that councilor and former mayor to do with Shariah Porter's Richard Langrell filed this fall. application for a kennel Langrell wants the city permitfor sixdogsat1534
11th St. Porterapplied forthepermit on June 5. Lohner denied Porter's request on Aug. 27. The police chief cited severalreasons forhisdecision, including several complaints police have investigated at Porter's home over the past
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More than 300 youngsters in the community participated in this year's summer reading program offered through the Baker County Library and its branches in Halfway, Richland, Haines and Huntington. This year's theme was "Fizz, Boom, Read" and featured many types of hands-on science experiments. Children's librarian Melissa Shafer said the children "blew out the record of total reading minutes recorded with a mind-blowing474,000 minutes this year." That's 120,000 minutes more than last year.
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Authoritie sareinvestigating a bow hunter's Friday discovery of human bones in the Marble Creek area about nine miles west of Baker County Sheriff Mitch Southwick said in a press release issued this morning. The sherifF said deputiesresponded to the scene with Oregon State Police investigators and confirmed that the bones were human. Clothing and a backpack also were found in the area. Oregon State Police Crime Lab offi cers alsoresponded and processed the scene. 'There is a tentative identification on the remains but the next of kin has not been notified," Southwick statedin thepressrelease. ''We are also awaiting more positive identification from the Oregon State Medical Examiners OIFice once they receive the remains." Southwick said the death appears to have been nonviolent. The bones are estimatedto have been atthe M arble Creek sitefor 18 to 24 months, Southwick said.
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Sturgill family donates $1,000 for Bandstand
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Scott and Becky Guthrie entered a mineral salt lick that has a suspicious resemblance to the popular conception of what an alien's face looks like, complete with oversized eyes.
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The Sturgill family has donated $1,000 to the Baker City Bandstand Project. The Sturgills made the donation to honor several generations of their family, which originally came to Baker Valley in the 1800s and settled in Wingville. This is the seventh individual $1,000 donation to the project in 2014, and the ninth received within the past 10 months in support of a plan to build a bandstand in Geiser-Pollman Park "We really appreciate this kind of support," said Dave Hunsaker, chairman of the Baker City Bandstand Committee. "We're well over half way toward our goal financially, and have grant applications under consideration to get us even closer. We don't want to break ground until we have all the construction money in the bank." For more information about the Bandstand project, go to www.bakercitybandstand.org.
several years. Among those complaints are neighbors reporting dogs barking, and puppies not beingproperly cared for.Police also confirmed that Porter had failed to license some dogs living on the property.
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Keith Romtvedt won best song for his version of "Poor Poor Lickable Me," which was the theme of this year's event.
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A display of salt licks attracts the attention of Pat Melchior, left, Norma Holmes, AndiVVatsh and Connie Sundblad during the eighth-annual Great Salt Lick contest and auction Saturday night in Baker City. There were 47 entries with auction dollars going to the Parkinson Center at Oregon Health &. Science University in Portland. The event, started byWhit Deschner of Baker City, has raised more than $50,000 over the past eight years.
The last night of summer was also the warmest. Well, almost. The low temperature at the airport,asof9 a.m .,w as a balmy 59 degrees. Only one day this year had a higher "low" — July 14, when the minimum temperature was 62 degrees. Blame for the muggy night — or credit, depending on your temperature preference — goes to clouds, which prevented Sunday's 88-degree heat from escaping mto the atmosphere, and mild southeast winds. It was by far the warmest night of September; the previous 'high" low was 49, on the 18th. The average low for the month, not including today, is 36.2 degrees.
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