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Newport Welcomes NOAA!!
Newport News-Times Articles
It's official: NOAA signs lease with Port of Newport [Aug 7, 2009]
Port of Newport General Manager Don Mann and David Hall, public affairs officer for the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, confirmed Friday morning that NOAA officials had signed the 20-year lease with the port that will bring the agency's Pacific operations fleet to Yaquina Bay in 2011.
Pictured on the right is the area of South Beach on Yaquina Bay which is destined to become the homeport
of NOAA. (Courtesy photo from Port of Newport, News-Times staff graphic) |
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Governor Visits Newport, Extols Netting of NOAA [Aug 28, 2009]
High praise from highest state office
NOAA Digs In [Aug 21, 2009]
Homeport project gets official start with groundbreaking.
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"It's final. It's here."
News-Times article,
June 4, 2010
NOAA website |
Signed Sealed Near Delivered [Aug 7, 2009]
Waiting is no longer an option. Port of Newport officials find themselves immersed in a public feeding frenzy in the wake of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's selection of Newport as the operations homeport for its Pacific
fleet operations.
Newport named new port NOAA selects Yaquina Bay as homeport for Pacific operations [Aug 5, 2009]
The wait is over. After a lengthy, closely watched, intensely lobbied, and eagerly anticipated process, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials deemed Newport as the best fit for the agency's Marine Operations
Center - Pacific (MOC-P), announcing the selection Tuesday morning.
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