Pine Eagle High School News Today

SALEM — The 37,700 students that made up Oregon’s 2023 high school graduating class posted the second-highest four-year graduation rate — 81.3% — ever recorded by the state. The Oregon Department of Education, which presented the statewide graduation rates Tuesday, Jan. 23, stressed that the Class of 2023 shouldered the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic as those students were starting high school when the pandemic began. Peter Rudy, a spokesperson for the Oregon Departm...

Andrea Cartwright designed her senior project to honor family who battled cancer.

Support for Halfway continues to come in from around Baker County and elsewhere after two residents died in separate vehicle accidents on Monday, Jan. 30.

GRANITE — Jim Carnahan’s job is to inspect bridges, but he’s hacking at this one with the sharp end of a geologist’s hammer and inflicting deep wounds.

LA GRANDE — While a nearly full moon hung over La Grande, racers were taking their marks among the pines at Hilgard State Park. It wasn’t quite 5 a.m. on

FRUITLAND Harley Sidney Derrick was born in Ontario, Oregon to Margaret (Wilburn) Derrick and Marve Derrick on August 27, 1934. He spent his early years with his parents on a ranch near South Crane, Idaho. Later he went to 3rd grade in Caney Valley, Tennessee, then moved to Lime, Oregon where he attended grade school in Lime and middle school in Huntington. In 1946, Harley started high school in Baker, Oregon, where he graduated in 1952. He joined the Army in 1954. He was first stationed in San...