New state radio effort launches near Newberg

Communications — Chehalem Mountain will be site of first tower to go up after project was scaled back

  • By: Amanda Newman 
  • Published: 7/19/2011 6:49:00 PM
Photo By: Gary AllenOn its way —
Construction on the new radio antennae on Chehalem Mountain is in its initial stages, but when completed it will join a group of other communications towers on Mountain Top Road.
   On a mountaintop near Newberg, a landmark project is taking place. It may not look special — some construction work on one of several radio tower sites clumped together at the top of Chehalem Mountain — but for the coalition of agencies trying for years to revamp emergency communication tools throughout the state, it marks the beginning of success.



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