A judge said he would decide by Sept. 10 whether to dismiss former Baker City Fire Chief Todd Jaynes’ $999,999 civil suit against the city, as the city’s attorney argued for in a June 20 motion.

The landscape of Baker County still holds scars from when giant gold mining dredges turned the Powder River and greater Sumpter area upside down for miles around.

I would prefer not to provoke a quarrel with Oregon’s largest newspaper, but The Oregonian has had a go at ghost towns and I ...