Seventh-graders
race for state
Frohnmayer’s
‘quiet battle’ ends
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142nd YEAR, No. 181
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2015
ONE DOLLAR
Bark park
gets off to
good start
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proposed dog park
at John Warren
Field quite fetching
By DERRICK DePLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Thomas Anderson waves to his father, Cmdr. Brian Anderson, as the Coast Guard Cutter Alert prepares to dock in Astoria Sunday.
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Cutter Alert returns after two-month patrol off Central and South America
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he U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alert returned to its homeport in Astoria Sunday after a two-month assignment
in Central and South America that included the interception of two smuggling boats and the seizure of 2,300
pounds of cocaine valued at $28 million.
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Coast Guard.
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in a very dynamic global environment.”
Photos by JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
ABOVE: Cmdr. Brian Anderson greets his chil-
dren aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Alert af-
ter returning to Astoria Sunday. LEFT: Children
watch as the Coast Guard Cutter Alert returns to
Astoria Sunday.
Spring forward? Oregon bills spark debate
AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File
Dave LeMote uses a wrench to adjust hands on a stain-
less-steel tower clock at Electric Time Co. Inc. in Med-
field, Mass., March 7, 2014.
SALEM (AP) — The
twice-a-year ritual of reset-
ting clocks would come to
an end under two bills intro-
duced in the Oregon Senate.
A Senate committee held
a brief discussion of the is-
sue Tuesday, but it did not
vote on the bills.
The idea has cropped up
in more than a half-dozen
statehouses, but it’s gener-
ated more talk than action.
In Oregon, there was no
sign that lawmakers seemed
ready to depart from the oth-
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time zone.
Still, the proposal invit-
ed dozens of emailed com-
ments from constituents to
lawmakers
“A great number of peo-
ple have written in saying,
‘We should just abolish this.
We don’t need to have this
archaic practice any lon-
ger,”’ said Sen. Kim Thatch-
er of Keizer, a Republican
who sponsored one of the
bills on behalf of a constit-
uent. “There are also a lot
of people on the other side
of the issue saying, ‘I would
miss daylight saving time.’ “
Time-change lovers say
it would be chaotic for Or-
egon to depart from its West
Coast neighbors, with which
it shares the strong econom-
ic and cultural ties, making
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or plan meetings. They say
daylight saving time allows
See BILLS, Page 10A
The Astoria Parks and Recreation
Board could recommend a dog park
at John Warren Field after the idea re-
ceived a positive reaction at a town hall
meeting at City Hall Tuesday night.
The city would lease the 1.4-acre
former home of the Astoria High
School Fishermen from Columbia
Memorial Hospital until the hospital
decides on future development.
The interim site, which the city
estimates will cost about $15,000 to
$20,000 annually to maintain, would
give dog owners a fenced, off-leash
refuge for their dogs until a perma-
nent location is found.
“It’s very positive, what we heard
today,” Norma Hernandez, the chair-
woman of the Parks and Recreation
Board, said after the town hall. “So
I think we have a great base to give
the information back to the rest of
See DOG PARK, Page 10A
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Council adopted the ban by unani-
mous vote while meeting in Vancou-
ver, Wash. It now goes to the NOAA
Fisheries Service for the develop-
ment of regulations, which will take
several months.
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cern has been mounting that some-
one would start one to meet increas-
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supplements for people, said Mike
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management.
“The intent was not to change cur-
rent practices, but prevent an uptick
in the amount of removals,” he said.
See FISH, Page 10A
coast
weekend
THURSDAY
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