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Baker City and Baker Valley residents might see a strange-looking helicopter flying low later in May.

Baker City and Baker Valley residents might see a strange-looking helicopter flying low later in May.

I peered down the gravel road, a narrow slice between the firs and the occasional ponderosa pine, and it struck me that at long last I had managed to misplace

I prefer the latter. And not only because I’m current on my inoculations. I happened to visit one of each type of historical site, the pair separated by a single day and a handful of miles. Both places are in Grant County but both, and one in particular, also have connections to Baker County. Persuaded by the summery weather that persisted into the first weekend of October, we decided to take one final trip for the year with our tent trailer. Our destination was the Dixie campground on the...