FEBRUARY 27, 2015 • VOL. 39, ISSUE 5
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City Council
OKs North
Laurel Street
development
Tentative decision contradicts
planning commission, irks neighbors
By Erick Bengel
Cannon Beach Gazette
A groundswell of oppo-
sition is rising against re-
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meeting, the council unan-
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granted Nicholson a vari-
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prevents developers from
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The council will take a
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proposal at its March 3
meeting.
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properties that, like Nichol-
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Frank Milan, aka “The Red Snapper,” reads from his recently published book, Beat Poetry from the 1980s at the Beach-
nik Café. He snapped his way through the performance, which often sounded like hip-hop.
That’s cool, daddy-o!
Hip locals
celebrate all
things Beat at
the inaugural
Beachnik Café
By Erick Bengel
Cannon Beach Gazette
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Property owner Jeff Nicholson has said he plans to tear
down this 99-year-old house at 532 N. Laurel St. and re-
build it using some of the original materials according to
modern building codes.
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1963, the “conservative
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City’s insurance may not cover
damage done to local home
Homeowners’
property
flooded after
water line
breakage
By Erick Bengel
Cannon Beach Gazette
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water line in the north end
ruptured last month.
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a PVC pipe that runs uphill
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homes were without water
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8, when the public works
crew had replaced the dam-
aged section of pipe and re-
stored water service.
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properties, including the
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huge,” said Douglas Had-
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see the damage for himself.
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retaining wall, some shat-
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The broken skirting along the west side of the Hadleys’
house resulted from the force of the water and the heavy
debris it carried flowing downhill after a PVC pipe broke
Jan. 7. The north reservoir emptied its 30,000 gallons of
water onto Ash, Larch and Seventh streets in under 10
minutes.
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Free conference gave local woman WINGS
One-day session helps women who want to go to school
No longer in subsidized housing, Soares
now volunteers at The Harbor, in Astoria, a
support center for victims of abuse, as well
A victim of childhood sexual abuse, desta- as at the Crisis Line. She plans to earn a
bilizing reverberations echoed into Nichole master’s degree in social work while focus-
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WKURSRORJ\ from Eastern Oregon Universi- That made me feel accepted right off the
Nichole Soares , who holds her son, Phillip, says she turned
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her life around after attending a one-day WINGS confer-
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See WINGS, Page 7A ence four years ago.
degree in liberal arts with honors.
Andrew R. Tonry
for the EO Media Group