Feature Stories

By Kristin Schuchman When sending their kids to preschool, most parents are content to find a place that keeps kids safe and reasonably engaged — not letting their kids just […]

by John Early   In the course of the current re-model of the old Natures (later Wild Oats) Market, the landmark mural, From Seed to Celebration, on the east wall

Tucked beside a tool supplier and an A/V rental business on Southeast 10th and Clay is an unassuming storefront, with a clever logo, that opens into a dazzling white space.

By Stephen Paulsen In a bright red building on the corner of SE 8th and Hawthorne, a group of friends and co-workers have put their careers on the line in

By Karen Hery “You have to see this school and this neighborhood.  You and the girls are going to love it!” The voice on the phone was coming from the

By Callie Jones This June and July, the Richmond Neighborhood Association hosts a series of four emergency preparedness workshops for the Richmond community thanks to a Small Neighborhood Grant from

  The grocery business has always been an important part of Mike Kelly’s existence. It began with his parents who made a living in the grocery industry. They did everything

Editor’s Note: This is the final installment of our What’s Going On series; a peek into a variety of businesses in the Central Eastside. We hope you’ve enjoyed finding out

Day laborers want to own hiring site   VOZ, a non-profit that works and advocates for day-laborers, especially Latinos, is seeking to gain ownership of their hiring center on NE

By Nick Blackbourn Smack dab between SE Division and Powell and just west of I-205 sits the Kelly Butte Natural Area, a 22-acre piece of land acquired by the city

All proceeds will benefit Friends of Portland Community Gardens, who is hosting the event with the Portland Parks Foundation.  With 47 community gardens in every part of the city, this event

By Gena Delaney At a recent community presentation in SE, Portland dentist Dr. Jay Levy gave the crowd some advice many did not expect:  water fluoridation presents real health risks,

The Habitat for Humanity ReStore has relocated from the inner Eastside to the Gateway District, 10445 SE Cherry Blossom Dr. What began as an occasional ‘garage sale’ to clear out

By Mike Klepfer GuildWorks is like many of its neighbors – set into former industrial space near the river, and difficult to tell exactly what the place holds. During business

J. Michael Kearsey On a curvy spot of SE Holgate, between Grout Elementary and Memory Lane Motors, another school is set back on the south side of the street; a

By Don MacGillivray Imagine evergreen forests and meadow where wild game roam, streams teeming with fish, a mild climate, snow capped mountains and the Pacific Ocean. To Native Americans, the

By Mike Klepfer In the central East side industrial area, squat gray buildings crowd together, concentrating as roads move west towards the river. These are holdovers from the city’s industrial

By Stephen Paulsen Last Thursday, a small but resolute crowd gathered at the Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church to hear a presentation by Scott Fernandez. Fernandez,  a member of both the

By Lee Perlman Dee Walsh’s heart may still be in Portland (“I miss it totally”), but she has mentally transitioned to the east coast and beyond. Last year Walsh resigned

By J. Michael Kersey The Clinton Street Theater has stood on the corner of SE 26th and Clinton for a hundred years. A photograph of the building appeared in The

A new non-profit is helping enrich communities in developing countries.  Founded by SE resident Clark Negen in 2011, Sharecycle focuses on shipping donated used and recycled goods to communities and

A planning group of Eastside residents have enthusiastically taken on the task of developing the first aging-in-place “Village” in the Portland metro area. Modeled after Beacon Hill Village in Boston, this

Ten years ago, five families sued the state for making them wait a decade to facilitate Medicaid help for their disabled children. The incident motivated the State of Oregon to