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Saying goodbye to old stomping grounds
Two mainstays of Centennial School District, Doug Cook and Dave Qualheim, retire after 36 and 41 years Together, they've sat in dunk tanks, orchestrated community projects with up to 200 people and...
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Troutdale flight school is international cockpit for pilots
Pacific Northwest hosts ideal training conditions for professional airline, helicopter pilots Exile Wu is sitting in the cockpit of a flight simulator. A control panel of dials and blinking red numbers...
View ArticleDrug-overdose deaths drop in state, county
Drug-overdose deaths in Oregon dropped 7 percent last year compared to 2011, when Oregon saw its highest level since 2000. Last year, 223 people in Oregon died from the use of heroin, cocaine,...
View ArticleLocal man arrested for Gresham bank robbery
A Gresham man who used to work for the Transportation Security Administration is behind bars accused of a March bank robbery. Gresham police detectives arrested Trevor Lee Schindler, 30, at his home in...
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Two arrested in connection to Gresham shooting
A Gresham man and his nephew have been arrested in connection with last weekend's shooting. U.S. Marshal's arrested Pavel A. Kolesik, 44, of Gresham at 3:45 a.m. Tuesday, June 4, in the 1000 block of...
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Damascus volunteers abandon ship in protest
Councilor calls the move grandstanding, while mayor says their work was already done In the wake of Monday night's mass resignation of 15 citizen volunteers from three Damascus committees, one city...
View ArticleSchool briefs
Gresham Grade Class of 1948 holds reunion Members of the Gresham Grade School Class of 1948 have put together a 65th reunion for this summer. A potluck celebration will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug....
View ArticleA queen and princesses among us
Corbett High Schools Key Club is seeking nominations for the 2013 Corbett Fun Festival Generational Queens Court. Last years royalty will join the Key Club committee to review nominations and select...
View ArticleLocal meetings
Monday, June 10 East Multnomah County Transportation Committee 3 p.m., Gresham City Hall, 1333 N.W. Eastman Parkway. Gresham Planning Commission 6:30 p.m., City Hall, Springwater Trail Room, 1333...
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Pursuit of wrong way driver ends in tazing, arrest
Police tazed and then arrested, a 25-year-old driver who tried to flee after he was reportedly speeding more than 100 mph the wrong way on Interstate 84. At 12:37 p.m. Monday, June 3, Multnomah County...
View ArticleIn the military
Army National Guard Watson Army National Guard Pvt. Nick M. Watson has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson in Columbia, S.C. Watson is the son of Ljubica Watson of Southeast Portland...
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Engagement
Gray-Kent Laura Gray of Boring and Charles Kent of Keizer are engaged to be married July 6, 2013. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Doug and Carolyn Gray of Boring. She graduated from Sandy High...
View ArticleCollege news
Bob Jones University Kaleb Kittrell, a sophomore biblical counseling major from Gresham, was named to the spring 2013 deans list at Bob Jones University. To qualify for the deans list, students must...
View ArticlePGE pulls plug on Troutdale energy project
Developers say they will still build power plant despite PGEs alternate plan An energy company with plans to build a gas-fired power plant in Troutdale has lost a competitive bid to sell power to...
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Birth
Brown Sloan Eloise Brown was born at 1:54 a.m. Wednesday, May 1, at Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham to Marisa and Eric Brown. She was 6 pounds, 15 ounces and 21 inches long. Sloan is the...
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Hands-on anatomy class
MedCure opens its cadaver lab to high school science students After scrubbing up, 30 high school students stepped into the MedCure lab. In the bright green room, knees, lungs, brains, a liver and a...
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Bringing the Rose Fest to sailors
The Navy had to cancel its annual appearance at Portland Rose Festivals Fleet Week, but that didnt stop volunteers from bringing the Rose Fest to sailors. An intergenerational group of volunteers...
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June 7 obituaries
Theodore Roosevelt Fetters Sr. Oct. 4, 1921-June 2, 2013 Canby resident Theodore Roosevelt Fetters Sr., who had East County ties, died Sunday, June 2. He was 91. A graveside service with military...
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Four indicted in Portland child porn video case
Four men were indicted by a grand jury following an investigation into the production and distribution of a graphic child pornography video in Portland. A Multnomah County grand jury recently indicted...
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Fickle Mother Nature (finally) smiles on local strawberry farms
After an early start, followed by record rainfall, local strawberries are ripe and ready to eat It was 2:30 a.m. when Rod Liepold called to make sure the helicopter was coming from Troutdale. That...
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