Longshoremen are booted from meeting

Yale Fogarty, left, and Tracy Burchett were among a half-dozen union members asked to leave a meeting of Save Our City, a group that opposes a plan to route log trucks bound for the International Terminal through a neighborhood packed with residents and tourists. Burchett said that log exporting has been a part of the “working Newport waterfront” for more than 75 years, and that residents have nothing to fear from revival of the industry. (Photo by Rick Beasley)

Group is organizing to oppose log truck traffic

NEWPORT – A half-dozen union longshoremen were ejected Saturday from an organizational meeting of Save Our City, a group formed last month to fight a plan to route log trucks alongside the Walker Heights neighborhood that are bound for a newly-rebuilt deepwater port.

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