Tryon Creek seminar will answer coyote questions

Park will host a special seminar Sunday dealing with urban howl-boys

By Cliff Newell / The Lake Oswego Review Thu, May 8, 2008

One thing that everyone should know about the influx of coyotes into Lake Oswego is this: You had better get used to them. As Capt. Mike Hammons of …

PDC to take last comments on fate of Sears armory

By Shasta Kearns Moore /
Pamplin Media Group
Mon, May 5, 2008
Updated May 5, 2008

The Portland Development Commission is finally nearing the end of its 1½-year study of the Sears U.S. Army Reserve Corps building on Multnomah …

Mercy Corps’ new fund fights global food prices

LocalNewsDaily.com
Mon, Apr 28, 2008
Updated Apr 28, 2008

Portland’s Mercy Corps has created a Global Food Crisis Fund to battle rising food prices around the world. The fund will raise and distribute …

To market, to market

The Multnomah Village Business Association will sponsor a pilot farmers' market this summer at the Multnomah Center

By Shasta Kearns Moore /
The Southwest Community Connection
Thu, May 1, 2008

MULTNOMAH – The popular Hillsdale Farmers’ Market will soon have a little sister in Multnomah Village. The summertime market is set to …

Woman dies in I-5 motorcycle accident

LocalNewsDaily.com
Sun, Apr 27, 2008

A 40-year-old woman died Sunday afternoon, April 27, on Interstate 5 southbound when the motorcycle she was riding left the road and slammed into a …

SW Trails pushes for final link to Lake Oswego

By Shasta Kearns Moore /
Pamplin Media Group
Mon, May 5, 2008
Updated May 5, 2008

Armed with his e-mail list of about 1,000 people, SW Trails head Don Baack is turning on the heat at Portland City Hall to fund a project that would …

Council candidate Fritz talks sidewalks with locals

By Shasta Kearns Moore /
The Southwest Community Connection
Thu, May 1, 2008

MULTNOMAH – The conversation quickly turned to sidewalks at this home party just off a poorly maintained gravel road in the Village. But this …

The government beat

The Southwest Community Connection
Thu, May 1, 2008

Realtors call for more single-level homes in Hillsdale Realtors Pam Taylor of RE/MAX Capitol Properties and Viola Wax of The Hasson Company …

Murder-suicide discovered in Southwest Portland home

LocalNewsDaily.com
Tue, Apr 8, 2008
Updated Apr 8, 2008

Officers from Portland’s Central Precinct discovered the bodies of Juan Andres Flores and Maen Issa Lutfi dead from a murder-suicide Monday …

Anticipation mounts for decision on Food Front

By Shasta Kearns Moore /
The Southwest Community Connection
Tue, Apr 1, 2008

HILLSDALE – Spelling relief for Hillsdale residents who have had to travel far and wide for groceries the past few months, officials at Food …

The 'gentle giant'

Loss of artist felt in national haunt industry, local subculture

By Shasta Kearns Moore /
The Southwest Community Connection
Tue, Apr 1, 2008

BRIDLEMILE – It was cold and dark, but still about 60 people – from teenagers to septuagenarians – gathered at the banks of the …

These activists still celebrate Earth Day in earnest

By Shasta Kearns Moore /
The Southwest Community Connection
Tue, Apr 1, 2008

HILLSDALE – Stepping into Dick and Jeanne Roy’s home in Hillsdale is like walking into a time capsule from the 1970s. The décor is in …

Rieke may go solar

A proposal is in the works to add solar panels to the hillside along Bertha Court

By Shasta Kearns Moore / The Southwest Community Connection
Thu, May 1, 2008
Updated May 5, 2008

HILLSDALE — The city of Portland and Portland Public Schools are working on a proposal to dot the hillside along Bertha Court with solar panels …

Southwest Portland childhood fuels state rep candidacy

By Shasta Kearns Moore / The Southwest Community Connection
Thu, May 1, 2008

MARSHALL PARK – For Chris Garrett, growing up in Southwest Portland was pretty great: wild parks, a close-knit community and great schools. …

Hillsdale hair salon hits 45th birthday this year

By Sarah Davidson / The Southwest Community Connection
Thu, May 1, 2008

HILLSDALE – On a Saturday morning at Images Unlimited Salon on Vermont Street, owner Sandy Liptak smoothes Doris Palmer’s hair into …

Suspected car thief’s lunch plans end with arrest

Police find stolen Acura and capture primary suspect in citywide locker room thefts

By Shasta Kearns Moore / The Southwest Community Connection
Fri, Apr 11, 2008
Updated Apr 11, 2008

Dustin Torres picked the wrong day to go to Tom’s Pizza & Pub in Northwest Portland. It was April 2, and the 36-year-old man – …

City’s sewage saga

BACK STORY • Southwest pipeline posed problems for years, and it’s not done yet

By Lee van der Voo / The Portland Tribune
Tue, Apr 8, 2008

Bob Stevens wasn’t even dressed. It was an afternoon in February 2000, and he was waiting for the mail to come and waiting out a miserable …

The plan to save school a popular one

By Shasta Kearns Moore / The Southwest Community Connection
Tue, Apr 1, 2008

HILLSDALE – Portland Public Schools officials have been singing a different tune lately to Rieke Elementary School parents and staff about the …

Police seek help solving man’s beating death

Body of transient Don Wilson found in February near Southwest Barbur Boulevard

LocalNewsDaily.com
Mon, Mar 31, 2008

The Portland Police Bureau, in cooperation with Crime Stoppers, is offering a $1,000 reward for information that helps solve the case of a man found …