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Founded in 1873
STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher
LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor
BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager
CARL EARL, Systems Manager
JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager
DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager
SAMANTHA MCLAREN, Circulation Manager
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From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago this week — 2005
The Oregon Department of Transportation will abide by whatever decision
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Nearly 25 Astoria School District students were sent home
Wednesday for not having up-to-date immunizations.
Exclusion Day is the annual deadline for parents to provide im-
munization records to schools and day care centers, or submit reli-
gious or medical exemptions.
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natural gas plant.
In early November, The Daily Astorian revealed that Calpine
Corp. had plans for an LNG facility at the tip of Warrenton’s Ski-
panon Peninsula on land leased from the Port of Astoria. The next
day, the port signed the lease, touching off a controversy that still
rages. Another LNG proponent is eyeing a site in Columbia County.
The second LNG proposal for Warrenton is on land at Tansy
Point. The site is owned by the city and leased to Martin Nygaard’s
Warrenton Fiber Co.
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“Things aren’t going too well,” said SP&S railway engineers at
Portland Monday as they predicted it would be another week before
trains roll over the Portland-Astoria line.
Workers trying to knock down rocks from a ledge 300 feet up the
face of the huge slide near Bradwood have been having a rough time,
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several inches.
We would like to see a feasibility and cost study made for a
small boat canal between Warrenton and Seaside via the lakes and
streams of Clatsop Plains, as proposed by a reader in a letter printed
on this page Wednesday.
We suspect this would cost a great deal less and be just about as
useful as the small boat harbor that is being discussed for the Seaside
cove. Such a canal would not only make Seaside a port accessible to
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recreational boating.
Some day that Puget Sound-Columbia River canal now being
talked about in Washington is going to become a reality, because it is
logical. An extension of it southward to Seaside would then be logical.
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Featuring the Spring Opening dance of the Astoria Chamber of
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