Vernonia News

I am saddened today to learn that Portland activist Bonnie Tinker, 61, died Thursday in a bicycling accident in Virginia.

The investigation into Tuesday night's fire that destroyed Oney's Restaurant and Lounge on Highway 26 east of Seaside has determined it to be an arson-caused fire.

HELPING HANDS - Jennifer Grenier of St. Helens volunteers at the Ford Foundation's final clean-up day on the Crown Zellerbach Linear Trail.

Dad drove up to my house on Thursday for our semi-monthly drive. The "get in the car and drive day" was something we had started doing years earlier as a way to stay connected in each other's lives.

Both Vernonia and Columbia City were awarded $94,000 from the Oregon Department of Transportation's Small Cities Economic Stimulus Program.

This is a press release courtesy of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Dept. Stub Stewart State Park has added an interpretive store to its list of visitor amenities.

Columbia County officials hope that Jay Sullivan's 26 years in Washington D.C. as a political insider and lobbyist can help them secure federal money to, in part, rebuild the city of Vernonia.

With the sliding-glass door ajar in the den of his rustic Polk County home, Arlie Holt can hear at once a rustling Little Luckiamute River and bustling Bridgeport School playground.

The December 2007 storm damaged hundreds of homes and buildings in Vernonia. The good folks of Vernonia, through U.S. Sen.

BRIDGEPORT - With the sliding-glass door ajar in the den of his rustic Polk County home, Arlie Holt can hear at once a rustling Little Luckiamute River and bustling Bridgeport School playground.

The city of Vernonia is in the process of creating a new Storm Water Master Plan.

Arguing that people in Vernonia need additional time to recover from a natural disaster that was followed by an economic crisis, Sen.

Thursday was supposed to be the big day, but a vote on a new home for the Portland Beavers has been delayed, again.There are a number of different factors, including community input from the Lents neighborhood, but the most important is that a deal hasn't been met with the team's owner.

On the edge of Vernonia, its impossible to miss the seven rows of neat white FEMA trailers.

The trailer, all 800 square feet of it, houses Ernie Smith; his wife, Robin; their teenage son; their 11-year-old twin girls and a family friend.

Columbia County Sheriff's deputies, while investigating a theft in the Vernonia area on Sunday, arrested one suspect and recovered numerous stolen items.

Get the info here! Last week, we asked about your coffee-drinkin' habits. 16% responded that they need coffee before they run, 26% said that they sometimes drink coffee before a run, and 5% said they drink coffee, but not before a run.

Guys start showing up for breakfast at Mariolino's in Vernonia well before dawn.

A logger's day -- even for a retired logger such as Bill Sword -- begins dark and early, and in Vernonia, it often begins at Mariolino's, where loggers past and present gather at a communal table for breakfast and many cups of serve-yourself coffee.

A man accused of trying to steal parts from cars led police on a high-speed chase Thursday, Vernonia police said.