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Website. www.vernonia-or.gov. Vernonia is a city in Columbia County, Oregon, United States. It is located on the Nehalem River, in a valley on the eastern side of the Northern Oregon Coast Range that is the heart of one of the most important timber-producing areas of the state. Logging has played a large role in the history of the city.
IV, XIV. Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton, 515 U.S. 646 (1995), was a U.S. Supreme Court decision which upheld the constitutionality of random drug testing regimen implemented by the local public schools in Vernonia, Oregon. Under that regimen, student-athletes were required to submit to random drug testing before being allowed to ...
Portland —Oregon's largest city—has been a major shooting location for filmmakers, and has been featured prominently in the films of Gus Van Sant, namely Mala Noche (1985), Drugstore Cowboy (1989), My Own Private Idaho (1991), and Elephant (2003). This list of films shot is organized first by region, and then chronologically by year. [3]
The Great Coastal Storm of 2007 was a series of three powerful Pacific storms that affected the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia between December 1, 2007 and December 4, 2007. The storms on December 2 and 3 produced an extremely long-duration wind event with hurricane-force wind gusts of up to ...
The Vernonia School District is a public school district that serves students in the communities of Vernonia and Mist in the U.S. state of Oregon.Vernonia Elementary School, Vernonia Middle School, and Vernonia High School are contained in separate wings of a single building in Vernonia constructed on high ground after floods in 1996 and 2007 severely impacted the city.
Portland, Oregon, U.S. The Advocate was a four-page weekly newspaper in Portland, Oregon, [1] [2] established as a news source for Portland's African American community. [3] It was founded in 1903 and was covered as an active entity in other Portland press until at least 1936. The Advocate was known as Portland's second oldest black newspaper. [4]
Website. www.vernonia.k12.or.us. Vernonia High School is a public high school located in Vernonia, Oregon, United States. In the wake of severe flooding in 2007, Vernonia City voters approved a $13 million bond in 2009 to build a new school complex in Vernonia. [6] The new school, now a K-12 school, was completed during the summer of 2012 at a ...
Vernonia is a genus of about 350 species of forbs and shrubs in the family Asteraceae. [2] Some species are known as ironweed. Some species are edible and of economic value. They are known for having intense purple flowers. There have been numerous distinct subgenera and subsections named in this genus, and some botanists have divided the genus ...