Updated March 18 at 9:58 PM Facebook couldn t finish connecting a trans-Pacific telecommunications cable before a key permit was set to expire. The company ran smack into a state-imposed March 26 deadline as it sought to connect the cable to on-shore facilities on a residential lot it owns in Tierra del Mar. The social media giant originally hoped to finish the project last spring, but its effort to drill a horizontal shaft to a punch-out spot half a mile offshore met with failure. Facebook s contractor belatedly told state permitting agencies it had left 1,100 feet of drill pipe, 6,500 gallons of lubricating fluid, and a broken drill bit under the seafloor.
Burton White, of Tigard, a retired union official, labor educator, and mediator, passed away Feb. 14 of complications following a stroke. He was 90.
White was director of labor relations for the Oregon Nurses Association from 1979 to 1985. Prior to that, from 1969-75, he was director of economic and general welfare for the California Nurses Association.
He started working as an arbitrator and mediator in 1988. He was the first executive director of Partners in Construction Cooperation (PICC), a “cooperation committee” in the construction industry that included workers, contractors, financiers, and designers. Its first project in 1988 was the Powell Valley Retirement Center in Gresham.
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Jurors selected the Miry Run Ponds Master Plan based on the research, design, restoration, and public participation. (Shutterstock)
EAST WINDSOR, NJ The Mercer County Park Commission s Miry Run Ponds Master Plan recently won the 2021 Chapter Award from the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (NJASLA), county executive Brian M Hughes announced.
Jury members voted unanimously for the master plan, and the award was announced at the NJASLA virtual meeting held on Jan. 31.
The master plan process was led by consultants Simone Collins Landscape Architecture and Princeton Hydro. It includes an ambitious and environmentally sensitive plan for the 279-acre County property in Hamilton, West Windsor and Robbinsville.
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Oregon’s controversial Measure 110 went into effect Monday, decriminalizing possession of hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and oxycodone, according to reports.
The measure reclassifies possession of small amounts of hard drugs as a civil violation: Offenders will face a $100 fine, which they can avoid with a health assessment – a 24/7 phone service that will help determine what services an individual might need.
Small amounts include less than 1 gram of heroin or MDMA; 2 grams of cocaine or methamphetamine; 12 grams of psilocybin mushrooms; and 40 doses of LSD, oxycodone or methadone.
Cellphone video shows the suspect, 43-year-old Brian Christopher Miller, yelling anti-Muslim slurs and threatening to kill the 68-year-old Afghan-American worker