SHS wins back- to-back titles Joy in B.B. King’s blues SPORTS • 4A OPINION • 6A WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 2015 142nd YEAR, No. 231 ONE DOLLAR µ)DNH :LOO\¶ could haunt sea lions :DVKLQJWRQPDQ offers Port an orca replica to scare critters By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Alex Tallman, a student at Astoria High School, struggles to hold on to a northern red-legged frog he found during a monitoring event at the Airport Mitigation Wetland Friday. It was the 18th year the monitoring event has been held, using students with Astoria High School’s ninth-grade Integrated Science classes. 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