Bringing back history, one sign at a time

By Shasta Kearns Moore /
The Southwest Community Connection
Mon, Jun 29, 2009
Updated Jun 30, 2009

MARKHAM – Some kids line their bedroom walls with posters of their favorite athletes, movie stars or teen heartthrobs. Pete Vogel lined his …

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Features Column

A generation's efforts are lost to schools

By shasta kearns moore /
The Southwest Community Connection
Mon, Jun 29, 2009
Updated Jun 29, 2009

An astute reader called last month to point out a connection between the main front-page story on parents bailing out schools drowning in budget cuts …

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Home is where the Multnomah Arts Center is

By sharon martini /
The Southwest Community Connection
Wed, Jul 1, 2009

A raccoon once moved herself and her three cubs into my house. She marched right in the backdoor and straight upstairs to my sons’ bedroom. …

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I will remember you, Wilson, with sappiness

By shasta kearns moore /
The Southwest Community Connection
Wed, Jul 1, 2009

Columns usually just fall into my lap. Something unusual happens in my life, I get to thinking about it and then I write about it. So I assumed that …

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Penny-pinching may be in vogue, but some luxuries are worth it

By lori sweeney /
The Southwest Community Connection
Wed, Jul 1, 2009

Evidently, I’m in vogue now. I’ve always considered myself frugal. Now with the deepening recession I’ve suddenly gone from …

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Wilson speech team wins top honors at state

By Shasta Kearns Moore /
The Southwest Community Connection
Fri, May 29, 2009

HILLSDALE – Oregon’s most interesting and competent high school speakers live here in Southwest Portland. That’s according to the …

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- To you, lovers of newspapers: May you multiply

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- Where have all the leaders gone?

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See what's happening in your community this month!

The Southwest Community Connection
Wed, Jul 1, 2009

Your community interest calendar for July Thursdays, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Thursdays Together Join your neighbors every Thursday in July at …

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Spelling ability leads to Scripps The Southwest Community Connection Wed, Jul 1, 2009 RALEIGH HILLS – Home-schooler Connor Aberle was in full “bee” mode to take on the nation’s best spellers at Scripps National …

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Hair salon switches to organic products after doctor's order

The Southwest Community Connection
Wed, Jul 1, 2009

MULTNOMAH – After years of working with hair color, Tamara Marshall, owner of Multnomah’s Fusion Cut and Color Salon, was given a tough …

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Leaving you in a 'Hillsdale state of mind'

By rick seifert / The Southwest Community Connection
Fri, May 29, 2009
Updated May 29, 2009

Next month will mark the 15th anniversary of this newspaper. I’ve chosen this column to be my last for the paper. When that first issue …

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- Oregon Partnership honors Mike Roach for work on teen alcohol issues

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