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After years of planning, Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare is taking the next steps to move forward with a supportive housing project in Uniontown.

Through the project, the county’s mental health and substance abuse treatment provider is working with developers at Edlen & Co. and TVA Architects to help fill housing needs for low-income people living with mental illness.

The project will bring an anticipated 32 units of studio-apartment-style housing — including one unit reserved for a live-in resident manager — to a vacant property along W. Marine Drive between KFC and Motel 6. The building will also house Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare’s Open Door program, which provides intensive treatment, support and employment services.

See the story by Olivia Palmer by clicking here.

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A new influx of federal funding is paving the way for removal of the North Fork Klaskanine River’s Ogee Dam, helping to close the loop on a fish passage effort years in the making.

The funds — by way of a more than $3 million grant made possible through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — will support the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife in infrastructure and habitat connectivity improvements for coho salmon, steelhead, Pacific lamprey, coastal cutthroat trout and western brook lamprey.

The North Fork Klaskanine River is a tributary of Youngs Bay, and the first major watershed that salmonids and lamprey enter in the lower Columbia River when returning from the ocean. Historically, fish passage along the waterway has been blocked by three diversion dam structures that supply water to the state’s Klaskanine Salmon Hatchery, which raises fall Chinook and steelhead.

In 2020, one of the dams — referred to as intake two — was removed. In 2022, the state partnered with the North Coast Watershed Association to build a fish passage structure at intake three.

Now, intake one, or the Ogee Dam, stands as the last remaining barrier for wild fish passage on the North Fork Klaskanine River.

Read the story by Olivia Palmer by clicking here.

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Karl Marlantes’ latest novel, “Cold Victory,” is historical fiction set in post-World War II Finland, where tensions play out on a battlefield of snow and ice under the northern lights.

In the book, two men, an American and a Russian, agree to a cross-country ski race. Five hundred kilometers, just over 300 miles, spread over 10 days in the middle of an Arctic winter.

Meanwhile, their wives strike up a friendship that’s clouded by harsh realities.

According to Marlantes, the book’s plot is driven by small decisions with high consequences, “good-hearted judgment calls, which we’d think would be inconsequential.”

It’s the fourth book for Marlantes, who was born in Astoria and grew up in Seaside.

Take a look at the report by Lissa Brewer by clicking here.

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