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A dedication ceremony for Hawk’s Eye Apartments, a collaboration of supportive and workforce housing, was held Tuesday afternoon where the former Red Lion Inn & Suites stood on S. Holladay Drive in Seaside.

The new apartment complex holds 55 units, most of which are studio units.

Seventeen of the apartments are for supportive housing available through Clatsop Community Action, a social services agencies. Supportive housing is intended as an affordable option for the community’s most vulnerable lower-income residents.

Amy Baker, the executive director of Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare, Clatsop County’s mental health and substance abuse treatment provider, said the people who will be placed in supportive housing will have a “chance to start their lives over again.”

See the story by Jasmine Lewin by clicking here.

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The Clatsop Community College Board voted Monday to offer the position of president to Jarrod Hogue, after the other top candidate, Richard Hopper, withdrew his application.

Hogue, who grew up in St. Helens and now lives in Skamokawa, Washington, is the principal of Math Mentors, a math tutoring company he founded in 2022. He previously spent 14 years working at Mount Hood Community College, serving as executive dean and chief academic officer and overseeing career and technical education, workforce development and high school and community education programs.

The college brought Hogue and Hopper to campus last week for interviews with the board and meetings with constituent groups such as faculty, staff, foundation board members and community leaders.

Read the story by Rebecca Norden-Bright by clicking here.

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When Jason and Liz Menke reopened Sea Level Bakery + Coffee in Cannon Beach last year after a remodel, they saw solar energy in their future.

It started with a consultation with Elemental Energy, a Portland-based solar energy company that helped the Astoria Co+op complete a solar energy project a few years ago.

Elemental Energy connected the Menkes with Spark Northwest, a Seattle-based nonprofit specializing in clean energy grants.

“I think without their help, it would have been kind of daunting,” Jason Menke said. “Because it’s got a lot of layers to it, government bureaucracy and such. It was quite confusing.”

Earlier this month, the collaboration came to fruition in the form of a $37,541 grant from the Rural Energy for America Program. The program, backed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, distributed over $2 million in grants to support renewable energy projects in Oregon.

Take a look at the report by Jasmine Lewin by clicking here.

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