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DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
145TH YEAR, NO. 61
SPORTS • PAGE 10A
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STACKSTOCK SOUNDS OFF
Big-city talent
at inaugural
music festival
By ERICK BENGEL
The Daily Astorian
CANNON BEACH — Fac-
ing a rapt audience at his feet and
a bright crescent moon over the
MORE INSIDE
Songwriting 101 in Seaside
Page 4A
Pacifi c, Colin Meloy, the front-
man of The Decemberists, took the
stage Saturday night at the fi rst-
ever ’Stackstock Music Fest , offer-
ing up a solo set tailored to the
coast.
At the show, held at Martin
North’s Haystack Gardens in Can-
non Beach, the songwriter of the
Portland indie folk-rock band per-
formed classics such as “Oceans-
ide” and “Down By The Water,”
plus songs from an upcoming
album.
And, since this was Meloy —
a musician who knows what he
is known for — his bittersweet
Colin Meloy,
frontman of The
Decemberists,
plays solo
at the first
‘Stackstock
Music Fest.
Erick Bengel
The Daily Astorian
See FESTIVAL, Page 4A
RUNNERS WILD
Photos by Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Cross-country runners compete in the 28th annual 3-Course Challenge on Saturday at Camp Rilea in Warrenton. The grueling event, hosted by Seaside High
School, drew more than 2,100 athletes. See more photos online at www.dailyastorian.com. Read the story in Sports on 10A.
Runners rest at the finish line .
Spectators try to find a vantage point
to watch athletes running in the
3- Course Challenge on Saturday.
Athletes traverse a water obstacle during the 3- Course Challenge cross-coun-
try event on Saturday at Camp Rilea.
Community development
A primal appeal motivates
Warrenton ultra-marathoner director to leave post
Principal an
extreme runner
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
W
ARRENTON — War-
renton Grade School
Principal Tom Rogozinski has
literally run across America.
The
mild-mannered,
49-year-old career educator
has been running ultra-mar-
athons since college, from
nonstop 200-mile footraces
through the wilderness to a
Tour de France-style run in
stages from New York City to
Los Angeles.
Last month, Rogozinski
covered 206 miles in 90 hours
through Washington’s Gif-
ford Pinchot National Forest.
Earlier this month , he cov-
ered another 206 miles in 78
hours around Lake Tahoe.
Next month, he will tackle
238 miles from Moab, Utah,
through the Canyonlands and
Arches national parks, the fi nal
leg in the Triple Crown of 200s
that has become a yearly ritual
for Rogozinski, always trying
to test his limits.
From Pittsburgh, Rogoz-
inski ran track at Indiana Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania. At 22,
he helped crew for a friend
running the 50-mile Massanut-
ten Mountain Massacre race in
Virginia in 1990. Intrigued, he
entered on the day of the race ,
fi nished in the top 10 and was
hooked .
See PRINCIPAL, Page 4A
Several sources said pri-
vately, however, that there
had been escalating concerns
over the past several months
By KATIE
about Cronin’s management
FRANKOWICZ
of a department that oversees
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critical issues such as devel-
opment review, code
Astoria Commu-
enforcement
and
urban renewal.
nity Development
Cronin
had
Director Kevin Cro-
been given oppor-
nin is leaving his job
tunities to address
in October.
the
concerns,
City
Manager
sources said, which
Brett Estes said Cro-
involved a lack
nin, who was hired
Kevin
of
collaboration,
in 2015, wanted
Cronin
to pursue other
See CRONIN, Page 4A
opportunities.
Cronin was
hired in 2015