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The Columbian, September 07, 2006

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Speculation Brews About G-P Mill ; Possible Production Cutbacks with Elimination of 300 to 400 Jobs Fuel Anxiety

Three of five paper machines operating at the big Georgia- Pacific Corp. paper mill in Camas could be shut down if their "overall competitive position" can't be improved. Such a shutdown could jeopardize as many as 300 to 400 high- paying manufacturing jobs, including those held by machine operators and others in warehousing, shipping and transportation.

Boy Hit by Car Faces Weeks in Hospital

PORTLAND The 7-year-old boy injured in a hit-and-run accident is awake but not talking, one of his doctors said at a press conference Wednesday morning. Trevor Wagner is responding to his family, said Dr. Sonia Butterworth, a pediatric surgeon at Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital.

Klineline Bridge, Facing Pier Pressure, Warrants Emergency Fix

Along about 1955, the south end of Klineline Bridge, its supports weakened by Salmon Creek's year-round gnawing, broke like a park bench under an oversized keister. All 58 feet of the bridge's full width snapped, crackled and plopped into the creek bed. It wasn't the first time the bridge, which is Highway 99's crossing of the creek, had demonstrated embarrassing maintenance issues. Just a half-dozen years earlier, one or more of the bridge's piers settled 18 inches and had to be jacked, repa...