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Mild weather, with some rain, today; cold returns tonight

Cold weather from the Gulf of Alaska is expected to roll in over Northwest Oregon tonight, bringing the lowest snow levels since December.

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Scene and Heard: SnowCap Community Charities, Portland Schools Foundation, Northwest Academy (The Oregonian)

SnowCap’s annual Valentine Dinner Auction raises $68,000 for its programs. Portland Schools Foundation’s annual Portland Roast Festival raises a record $360,000.

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NASCAR driver Greg Biffle becomes part-owner of track in Oregon | Auto racing (Seattle Times)

Driver Greg Biffle of Vancouver, Wash., has never forgotten his early days of racing across the Northwest, where the path to NASCAR is bumpy at best.

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Greg Biffle becomes part-owner of Oregon dirt track (ESPN)

ASCAR driver Greg Biffle says he has become part owner of a dirt track in Oregon and formed a late model series to help budding racers in the Northwest.

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Biffle buys part of Oregon dirt track and forms series for Northwest racers (Los Angeles Times)

LAS VEGAS (AP) — NASCAR driver Greg Biffle says he has become part owner of a dirt track in Oregon and formed a late model series to help budding racers in the Northwest.

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Today’s headlines: Listen to the wren’s song of spring; Golf carts edging closer to being street legal

Here’s a pair of must-see (and hear) stories from around the Northwest.

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Today’s headlines: "Santa Claus" burglar FAIL; "Sexpresso Movement" is spreading

View full size View full sizeToday we offer two of the very best news stories among all the day’s Northwest Headlines. Our focus this Tuesday is on first sentences (known in newspaper lingo as the “lede”), ones that pull you…

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Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival at 75: an unlikely success story (The Oregonian)

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s award-winning performances and exceptional outreach programs make it part of the fabric of the Northwest.

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Obama administration will review its Northwest salmon and dams plan

Today’s announcement by the government is the latest turn in a long-running litigation over the federal agencies’ strategy to run the Northwest’s system of power-producing dams without pushing imperiled fish closer to extinction.

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Morning headlines: Lake Oswego institution set to close, Fat Tuesday rather slim, Nike pushes for clean energy, Campbell shooting documents, PGE rate…

Wizer’s Lake Grove Market, a Lake Oswego institution, set to close. Nike, Starbucks, other Northwest businesses push Congress for ‘clean energy economy’

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