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Yesterday | News-Times

Washington, Columbia counties team up to offer child care services

Beginning today, Child Care Resource & Referral in Washington and Columbia counties will combine to become one service delivery area.

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Related Topix: Washington County, OR

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Portlandtribune.com

Section 8 residents get July reprieve

Rent is paid through July for the 285 Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook county residents who were told that they would lose their Section 8 housing assistance on July 1. The Northwest Oregon Housing Authority board voted Thursday to use reserve revenue funds to pay for the residents' July assistance vouchers.

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Related Topix: Tillamook County, OR, Scappoose, OR

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Spotlightnews.net

Advertising pamphlet displaying Scappoose merchants takes heat from business bureau

PAMPHLET PICKLE - This is one of several pamphlet varieties published by Northwest Publishing, a Portland company that has received an "F" grade from the Better Business Bureau and red flag from the South Columbia County Chamber of Commerce.

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Related Topix: Scappoose, OR, Portland, OR

Mon Jun 29, 2009

South County Spotlight

Columbia County men sentenced for kidnapping, assault

A Columbia County man has been sentenced to more than 18 years in prison for holding a friend's girlfriend in a rental trailer for four days in December 2007, at which time the two men beat her and threatened her life.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

Portlandtribune.com

CZ Trail not open - officially, at least

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

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Related Topix: Scappoose, OR, Vernonia, OR

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Portlandtribune.com

NOHA might pay July rent for those on housing assistance

The 285 Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook county residents who were told they would lose housing assistance could be safe from eviction for at least one more month, if the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority board votes tomorrow to use reserve funds to pay residents' July rent.

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Related Topix: Tillamook County, OR, Warrenton, OR, Astoria, OR

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Portlandtribune.com

County residents plea for sheriff services

Dorris Gresho, like many other Columbia County residents, fears a world without sheriff's deputies.

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Related Topix: Clatskanie, OR

Statesman Journal

Pipe bomb found near St. Helens

The Oregon State Police are investigating how a pipe bomb ended up on a residential property in Columbia County.

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Related Topix: St. Helens, OR

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Oregonlive.com

Possible pipe bomb being investigated in Columbia County

Columbia County sheriff's deputies have secured a residential property near St. Helens, where a possible pipe bomb has been found.

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Related Topix: St. Helens, OR

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Medford Mail Tribune

Cold case heats up, netting five suspects

For two years a vicious midnight robbery of a home-based business on Brookdale Avenue confounded investigators.

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Related Topix: Medford, OR, Jackson County, OR, St. Helens, OR

Fri Jun 19, 2009

KPTV Beaverton

Cuts May Leave County With 3 Deputies

ST. HELENS, Ore. -- Budget cuts proposed in Columbia County may leave its sheriff's office with only three deputies, leading residents to express concern Thursday about their safety.

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Related Topix: St. Helens, OR

Wed Jun 17, 2009

Spotlightnews.net

Different approaches yield different priorities for two similar counties facing budget challenges

Close to two-dozen department heads sit around a table and discuss their budgeting priorities each spring: which county programs should be cut, and which programs should be saved? That's the way the beginning of Lincoln County's budgeting process works.

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Related Topix: Scappoose, OR, Clatsop County, OR, Washington County, OR

Sun Jun 14, 2009

The Oregonian

Old St. Helens a Columbia River gem

A brightly decorated window in St. Helens at Geppetto's Ice Cream and Deli. Old Town St.

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Related Topix: St. Helens, OR, Portland, OR, Theater, Arts, Pilates, Fitness

Sat Jun 13, 2009

KGW-TV Portland

St. Helens thrift store benefits abuse victims

ST. HELENS, Ore. -- The community of St. Helens is pulling together to save a building they say plays an integral part of helping victims of abuse in Columbia County.

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Related Topix: St. Helens, OR

Thu Jun 11, 2009

Spotlightnews.net

No fix in sight for jeopardized rental assistance

While there is no shortage of finger pointing after a decision by a Clatsop County nonprofit housing authority to cut federal rental assistance to 285 northwest Oregon residents, few solutions have been pitched to replace the jeopardized subsidy.

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Related Topix: Clatsop County, OR, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Ron Wyden, Democrat, Tillamook County, OR

Wed Jun 10, 2009

Preemptive Karma

Maybe They'll Get A Bailout If They Become Banks

No housing for you! [1]: On May 22, the Warrenton-based nonprofit Northwest Oregon Housing Authority mailed letters to 285 residents in Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook counties who receive U.S. Housing and Urban Development funds, informing them that they would no longer receive assistance dollars as of July 1. Of those, 141 live in Columbia ...

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

Spotlightnews.net

Violence on the rise, police chiefs say

Two neighbors stood face-to-face May 9 in St. Helens, one holding a gun and the other a samurai sword.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime

Sat Jun 06, 2009

South County Spotlight

County, Vernonia turn to lobbyist to land larger share of stimulus money

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.

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Related Topix: Vernonia, OR, Education Etc., St. Helens, OR, Scappoose, OR

Fri Jun 05, 2009

Spotlightnews.net

Brother-sister duo linked to St. Helens bomb

St. Helens police have a brother-sister duo in custody believed to be responsible for the April 30 placement of an explosive device near a baseball field dugout in a city park.

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Related Topix: St. Helens, OR

Spotlightnews.net

Staff cuts in county, city budgets

Down revenues from less construction and a smaller state budget have forced local governments to tighten their own budgets.

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Related Topix: St. Helens, OR, Scappoose, OR

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