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He certainly couldn’t find it, in any case. That frustrating day a few years ago on the Cunningham Cove trail — and off it — helped to inspire what today is the Trailhead Stewardship Project. Johnson hopes this partnership between The Trailhead, which is a bike and ski shop in Baker City, and the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest will help future hikers avoid the conundrum that he confronted that day high on the western slopes of the Elkhorn Mountains. Johnson is general manager of Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort, which several years ago opened The Trailhead on Main Street in downt...

  A Dec. 1 column in The Union by Bernie Zimmerman, chair of the Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission, affirmed that Nevada City’s legal name since 1851 has been City of Nevada and that the town has been incorporated four times: 1851, 1854, 1856 and 1878. Bernie did his homework and his recent chronological account was rock solid. Most history books claim that in the spring of 1851— following that first incorporation — Moses Hoyt (Hoit in some accounts) became Nevada City’s first directly elected mayor. Truth be told, however, the town’s first directly elected mayor was H...