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From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago this week — 2005
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Dean Bose, catching his breath after pedaling up Coxcomb Hill
to the Astoria Column.
Bose was among 2,000 cyclists who rode — or in a few cases
pushed — their bikes into Astoria at the end of the 2005 Cycle
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Crews are clearing the path for the rerouted section of U.S.
Highway 101 set for construction at the historic Lewis and Clark
Station Camp site.
The Washington State Department of Transportation is
shifting roughly a mile of the highway away from the shore to
straighten out a hazardous curve and to make room for a new
riverfront park.
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75 years ago — 1940
C.A. Roman, Astoria realtor, told delegates to the convention
of the Oregon State Association of Real Estate Boards Saturday
that “what Astoria needs most is a group of new houses and some
new business structures.”
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beach resorts and you will realize that the northwestern section
of Oregon is in line for a substantial expansion program. What
Astoria needs most is a group of new houses and some business
structures.”
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Richard M. Nixon as the two leaders stand on a balcony at the White
House in Washington in June 1973. The meeting was the only summit
ever recorded on an American presidential taping system. The last 340
hours of tapes from Nixon’s White House were released Wednesday,
Aug. 21, 2013, along with more than 140,000 pages of text materials.
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The New York Times News Service
“Here are youngsters piling into Gray Elementary on Monday as
the bell tolled.”
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2015