Coast Guard gets
Forever stamp
Seaside sweeps
Scappoose
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015
142nd YEAR, No. 146
ONE DOLLAR
DUII cases shift to Circuit Court
The 4-1 vote potentially ends clash with district attorney over jurisdiction
By DERRICK DEPLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
Arline LaMear
Russ Warr
with Clatsop County District Attor-
The Astoria City Council voted
The vote was 4-1, with Councilor
Court to the county’s Circuit Court,
See CASES, Page 10A
Council
rejects
bank’s
Columbia Bank
on new branch
By DERRICK DEPLEDGE
The Daily Astorian
Columbia Bank will not have a
SEA LIONS BACK IN PORT’S SIGHTS
The Astoria City Council voted
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Sea lions lounge in the East End Mooring Basin Tuesday. Surveys conducted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife estimat-
ed up to 1,200 California sea lions and 1,000 Steller sea lions in the 140 miles of the lower Columbia River. The Port of Astoria is exploring
several strategies to keep the sea lions out of the basin.
Pesky
pinnipeds
incompatible with the downtown
The bank had wanted the blue
bank would not appeal the council’s
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
T
ma-based bank, had told the council
between 2,000 and 3,000 sea lions
the Historic Landmarks Commission
he smelt are back in the Co-
lumbia River — and so are the
not blend with the city’s objective
nia sea lions were seldom seen
But surveys as recently as 2006
JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian
Sea lions waddle along a dock in the East End Mooring Basin.
Councilor Cindy Price said it was
probably the blue color that put some
See SEA LIONS, Page 10A
ert Evert reported on what the Port
‘Gunner’ proves
more capable than
predecessor, ‘Cash’
By ERICK BENGEL
EO Media Group
CANNON BEACH — The Cannon
Beach Police Department’s second at-
neither the Historic Landmarks
Commission nor the City Council
is allowed to consider color when
See ROOFTOP, Page 10A
nationwide possess medical marijuana
coast
weekend
Once Gunner has completed
yielded a 2-year-old male chocolate
Labrador named Gunner, who started
See K-9, Page 10A
Gunner, a narcotics and search-and-rescue K-9 officer-in-training,
makes himself comfortable in the Cannon Beach Police Department
with his handler, Officer Josh Gregory. Gunner’s predecessor, Cash, a
2-year-old Belgian Malinois, didn’t complete the training.
ERICK BENGEL — EO Media Group
THURSDAY
Living deliberately