Vernonia News

When the destructive 2007 flood hit Vernonia, Kenneth Cox remembers watching helplessly as the water rose, inch by inch.

After two 500-year floods in 11 years, resilient Vernonia residents took a giant step forward on Nov.

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Residents of this flood-weary community celebrated Wednesday at the prospect of a new $37 million school funded through massive, just-approved tax hikes.

Early results indicate that Vernonia voters have approved a $13 million school bond for construction of a new school complex.

Boora Architects designed the K-12 school that Vernonia School District hopes to build.

The Tuality District of Boy Scouts of America will give Richard Kidd its first Good Scout award next month in recognition of his time as mayor of Forest Grove.

ST. HELENS When Portland Community College representatives met with community members in St.

Vernonia Police Sergeant Michael Kay lost his father's Purple Heart, received during the Vietnam War, in the flood which devastated the town in December of 2007.

December 2007 floodwaters surround the Vernonia home of Nancy Schaumburg on Hemlock Lane.

Moving day on the corner of Rose Avenue and Maple Street : The Archers pack up the deep freeze, the basketball hoop, the lizard enclosure and the washing machine.

VERNONIA, Ore. -- Vernonia residents whose homes were destroyed nearly two years ago by floods may be forced to move out of federal housing units.

Tony Pereira, builder at Portland's Pereira Cycles, wears his party attire as he celebrates finishing the Oregon Manifest's 77-mile Constructor's Race from Vernonia to Portland on Saturday.

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John Hesselman, left, and Jason Roberts have been arrested in connection with dozens of burglaries after police discovered suspicious activity at several area pawn shops.

Construction work along sections of Oregon 47 will begin after the Labor Day holiday weekend, according to officials at the Oregon Department of Transportation.

Michael Pihl, a Vernonia man who achieved a level of notoriety after his logging company was prominently featured on the History Channel's documentary-styled TV show "Ax Men," was arrested Wednesday for an alcohol-related injury crash involving his children.

William Mahon was curled up with his two children on the couch of his trailer park home off of Scappoose-Vernonia Highway late on an October 2006 Saturday night.

A crash near Vernonia Wednesday night injured four people, including three children.

Oregon State Police arrested a man Wednesday evening after he flipped a vehicle in the Vernonia area and injured himself and three children.