READING There’s an impact on the psychology of a town – especially a smaller town – that comes from its population marker. After a certain point, a city like Portland or Seattle, encased as it is by suburbs, seems less defined by its population number.
But Baker, Oregon, has never quite reached the 10,000 population mark. Drive through it and you’ll see a small city whose leaders clearly once thought it would be much bigger, but never quite got there. But now, after all these years, it may have crossed the line into five figures. Maybe.
You take what you get.
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