🌱 Will Newberg’s old landfill really become future riverfront parkland?

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In today's newsletter:

• Will Newberg’s old landfill really become future riverfront parkland?
• What Newberg-Dundee’s failed levy means for jobs and possible school closures
• Would halving administrator pay actually fix Newberg schools’ budget crisis?

Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Mostly cloudy and cooler, with a high of 69 and low of 50 degrees.
• Thursday: Partly sunny and nice, temps: high: 70, low: 46.
• Friday: Mainly cloudy, showers around, with a high of 65 and low of 50 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• CPRD's Proposed Landfill-Turned-Recreation Area Faces Budget and Environmental Concerns (newsberg.org) — Chehalem Parks and Recreation leaders are weighing whether to lease the former Newberg landfill near Rogers Landing for future waterfront recreation, but rising environmental costs and limited staff capacity have them hesitating. At the same meeting, they advanced work on projects like Dundee’s new Sander Estate park and delayed action on a proposed rural heritage park ordinance affecting Bob and Crystal Rilee Park.
   

• Disappointed by Levy Failure, School Board Acknowledges Long Road Ahead, Adopts Budget (newsberg.org) — Newberg-Dundee schools just adopted a budget with $5.7 million in cuts, eliminating 35 positions after voters rejected a local-option levy. District leaders are freezing hiring, limiting spending, and preparing possible school consolidations, while planning to reconvene the boundary committee in August and push for better state funding to protect students’ classroom experiences.
   

• Are administrator salaries to blame for budget woes in the Newberg-Dundee school district? (youroregonnews.com) — Newberg-Dundee school leaders say even slashing all administrator salaries in half would barely dent a multimillion-dollar budget gap driven by enrollment declines and rising costs. With the levy defeated, the proposed 2026–27 budget still cuts dozens of positions, adds furlough days, and may close Ewing Young Elementary as officials blame weak state funding and fewer students per new home.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• ANOTHER REASON TO CHECK BEFORE DISCARDING JUNK MAIL
  Last week I decided to look into an email message before just deleting it, turned out that my Apple account was indeed in the process of being… (Nextdoor Ewing)

• The Retail Odyssey Company posted a job opening for Now Hiring: Traveling Retail Merchandiser - Overnight in Newberg. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Sherwood

• Slow down! Mobile speed cameras to make rounds in Sherwood residential, school zones (youroregonnews.com)

Wilsonville

• Letters to the editors: Readers discuss tolling, election and tree risks (wilsonvillespokesman.com)
• Multiple dead, officer wounded in Sandy shooting Sunday evening (opb.org)
• Another Distribution Merger Creates a PNW Beer Behemoth (washingtonbeerblog.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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