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BAKER MIDDLE SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD: Baker boys, girls sweep team titles at Crane meet
CRANE — Baker Middle School won the boys and girls team titles at a track and field meet April 24 at Crane, and Baker athletes set three school records in the process. Kate Norton broke her own eighth grade record in winning the shot put throw, and she broke a 36-year-old record in the discus.
Burns Code Enforcement Officer talks about spring
BURNS-Burns Code Enforcement Officer Emerson Budreau spoke on Harney County Live about spring being here and how to keep the nuisance vegetation around your home under control. Officer Budreau also spoke about the upcoming free community clean up and what can and can’t be thrown away during this event.
CENTRAL OREGON HISTORY: Crane was a railhead in a ranching region
Crane is an unincorporated community in Harney County, Oregon, about 29 miles southeast of Burns, Oregon. It was initially settled as a ranching center. It was named for nearby features Crane Creek and Crane Creek Pass. The creek is believed to be named for the Sandhill crane, which was once a prominent bird species in the region. A post office was established on June 10, 1895, with Henry Turner as first the postmaster, and it was discontinued in 1903. When the Union Pacific Railroad was completed from Ontario, Oregon, in 1916, the post office was reopened on Oct. 11, 1916. ...
Harney County officials release more info in Idaho parents’ murder-suicide; their 2 children placed with family
Two adults were killed and a child was injured over the weekend in a shooting in remote Harney County that sheriff’s deputies determined to be a murder-suicide involving an Idaho family camping along a road in the area. The post Harney County officials release more info in Idaho parents’ murder-suicide; their 2 children placed with family appeared first on KTVZ.
SELCO Community Credit Union collects 1,100 children’s books, refurbishes many to benefit SMART Reading program
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. (KTVZ) — To celebrate World Book Day on April 23, SELCO Community Credit Union announced that it collected 1,100 new and lightly used children’s books — and SELCO employees volunteered en masse to sort and clean many of them — during its recent book drive benefiting SMART Reading, a statewide children’s literacy nonprofit.
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