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In Yamhill County, Opponents Says Gravel Mining Will Harm a Grand Island

By Eric Mortenson
The Oregonian
August 24, 2010

GRAND ISLAND -- Despite its name, this is a place of little pretense. A single bridge curves onto the island, seven miles outside Dayton, and leads immediately to thick cornfields, rows of beans and berries, and graceful peach and cherry orchards.

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Business Survey Gauges Real Estate Market in Tri-State, Mid-Atlantic

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Real estate firms are shifting strategies and working harder to generate the same revenues, and many builders have mixed-use and multifamily projects ready and waiting for stronger activity before they can move ahead.

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Control Tower Funding Takes Off Before Planning

The Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce
Nick Bjork
August 23, 2010

A lottery-backed project to improve safety at a small airport in Aurora would seemingly fly under the radar, but it’s drawing fire from critics instead.

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City to Make Transportation Plan Greener

By Hannah Guzik
Ashland Daily Tidings
August 24, 2010

The city will begin an 18-month process Tuesday to create a greener Transportation System Plan focused not just on cars but on pedestrians, bicycles and trains.

City officials hope the plan, which hasn't been updated since 1998, will make Ashland's streets safer and serve as a model to other communities nationwide.

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Oregon Community Develops Wind Farm

Keri Brenner
The Dalles Chronicle
August 3, 2010

Ormand Hilderbrand says he “now knows the real meaning of going for broke”’ after spending five years working to launch Oregon’s first small, independently developed wind farm.

“You have to have a vision and you have to stick to it,” said Hilderbrand, 59, an entrepreneur whose family has farmed dryland wheat in the Mid-Columbia region east of the town of Wasco since the 1860s. “If you have the least bit of doubt, you won’t get it done.”

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Metro Councilor Robert Liberty Announces Panel to Discuss CRC Alternatives

Jonathan Maus
August 16th, 2010
Bikeportland.com

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Metro Eyes Hillsboro for Bringing Residential, Industrial Land Into Growth Boundary

By Brad Schmidt
The Oregonian
August 11, 2010

Hillsboro could be an obvious winner if regional policymakers decide to loosen the Portland-area's growth belt this year to ensure enough developable land exists for homes and large-parcel industrial campuses during the next two decades.

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