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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...

I strongly support the rule change proposed by OPRD to ban driving year-round on the Tierra Del Mar residential area beach and the area adjacent to Sitka Sedge State Natural Area. It should be just common sense that we would not allow driving on the beach, especially in the proposed area from the mouth of Sand Lake estuary south to the northern border of Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area. This area encompasses two distinct recreation areas, both should be wildlife/visitor/family friendly, not vehicle friendly. The first is the area at the north edge of the proposed ban area, adjacent to Sitka S...