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East county dancers to perform holiday classic
Mt. Hood Dance Academy to perform Christmas ballet Dec. 15 Nicolina Williams, 12, a sixth-grader at Dexter McCarty Middle School, sums up her fondness for ballet by hitting several marks. I love...
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Father, son team up to create children's book
The Banjo strikes winning note with readers Music runs in the veins of Jere Hudson and his son, Zach, who both note one of their Irish ancestors fled the Old Sod just ahead of British authorities...
View ArticleLegislature should renew cultural trust tax credit
Oregons culture and not coincidentally, its economy can take additional strides forward if the states legislators and citizens act upon two separate opportunities in coming weeks. The most...
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Father arrested in connection to armed robbery committed by children
Accused child criminal, and two other children, taken into protective custody The father of an 11-year-old boy accused of trying to carjack and rob a woman at gunpoint Saturday is in jail on...
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Dec. 11 obituaries
Gregory Greg Loren Gluth June 28, 1958-Dec. 3, 2012 Gregory Loren Gluth died Monday, Dec. 3, after a battle with terminal cancer. He was 54. A memorial service with full military honors will be held...
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Blazers set NBA record in victory, and it's not a good one
No NBA team has ever shot the 3-pointer as poorly as the Trail Blazers did Monday night at the Rose Garden. Portland set a league record for futility by missing all 20 attempts from beyond the arc ...
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Swimmers put up fast times at big meet
Barlow High junior Nick Thorne swam three personal-best times at the Junior Nationals meet in Knoxville, Tenn., last weekend. His highest finish came in the 100-meter freestyle where he placed 19th...
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League playoffs are the goal
Don Carter returns to coach his alma mater at Corbett, while Damascus Christian and Portland Lutheran chase spots in the Valley 10 bracket Damascus Christian boys basketball coach Terry Calhoun has...
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Shooter: 'I'm the kind of person who's going to do what I want'
Jacob Tyler Roberts, the 22-year-old identified as the Clackamas Town Center mall shooter, likes shooting, sushi, Goodfellas and The Beatles. So says his Facebook page, which on Wednesday morning...
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West Linn man, Kaiser nurse killed in mall shooting
Clackamas Town Center 'tragic' scene as two people are killed, gunman takes his own life A West Linn father is one of the two people who were shot and killed during a Tuesday afternoon attack at...
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Janitor at Reynolds High School arrested
Jesse Lee Snyder is accused of stealing more than $40,000 of electronics from the school A 31-year-old man who works as a custodian is facing criminal charges after detectives linked him to multiple...
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Changing styles of Christmas
Drake's 7-Dees garden center is using colored flocking for this year's crop of Christmas trees For decades, folks have flocked to Drakes 7-Dees Nursery for yard and garden advice. Each December, some...
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Local police plan extra patrols at shopping centers
Regional law enforcement agencies reacted to the Clackamas Town Center shooting with varying strategies. Portland police increased patrols around shopping malls and business districts with high amounts...
View ArticleState offers free counseling for shooting witnesses
The Oregon Department of Justice is offering emergency financial compensation to help pay for counseling for people who were at Clackamas Town Center at the time of the Dec. 11 shooting rampage. The...
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Our Opinion: We have all lost something in shooting
There is no more normal or comforting sort of place than the interior of Clackamas Town Center, where the background music is muted, the trolley weaves among shoppers and daylight floods through ample...
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Self-reliant fifth option accepts his Blazer role
Undersized J.J. Hickson averages double-double, thanks to work rate Growing up an only child in Atlanta, J.J. Hickson learned to do a lot of things for himself. That self-reliance has served him well...
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Blue Jays win on the power play
Portland Lutheran is left a player short down the stretch, but holds off Waldorf for its first Valley 10 league win MILWAUKIE Hollywood uses cardboard cutouts to fill in crowd shots in sports movies....
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Damascus ready to fly high
The Eagles are off to a 4-0 start with some impressive early season wins over bigger schools You know youve built a powerhouse program when winning the regular season league title and ending the year...
View ArticleDec. 14 obituaries
Velma Inez Hoover March 7, 1929-Dec.7, 2012 Longtime Sandy resident Inez Hoover died Friday, Dec. 7. She was 83. A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec.15, at Sandy Funeral...
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Big third quarter lands Raiders a win
Forest Grove cant get the 3s to fall late in a 58-53 loss to Reynolds on Friday night TROUTDALE The Reynolds boys basketball team locked down Forest Groves shooters down the stretch Friday night to...
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