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From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
10 years ago this week — 2006
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The new master plan for Clatsop County’s parks system lays
out an ambitious program of facility improvements, funding
strategies and other recommendations.
But one of its top priorities is simply to get the public more
aware that the county has its own parks.
“I’ve lived in the county 20 years and regularly use state parks
… really had no idea there were so many county parks!” said one
local resident who responded to a survey conducted for the plan.
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Helicopters touch down at their new home at Clatsop airport,
site of the Coast Guard’s new $450,000 installation.
Astoria’s Coast Guard air station switched operations from
Tongue Point to its new $450,000 hanger at Clatsop airport Fri-
day morning.
The station’s two helicopters left their Tongue Point landing
pad at 10:15 a.m. And landed at the sprawling new complex at 11.
Several newsmen and television cameras were on hand to
greet them.
The station has a complement of 10 pilots and 40 crewmen.
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The state highway department Tuesday morning reported
snow on virtually all of Clatsop County’s main highways, but
chains were required only at the Sunset summit on Highway 26.
All Knappa-Svensen schools were closed because school buses
were not able to negotiate the snow-covered back roads to pick
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