What’s going on in there? Part V
By John McLaren The nondescript building at SE Taylor St. and 11th Ave. could be an anonymous warehouse, but for 20 years it has housed Cr…
Feature Stories
Coyotes spotted on Mt. Tabor
By Kristin Schuman If you’ve heard howling around Mt. Tabor in the evenings lately, you may not be imagining things and you’re n…
Senior Property tax exemption success
By Don MacGillivray True success through public advocacy in state and local state legislation is often difficult. Fortunately reversing th…
26th Annual Apple Tasting!
Portland Nursery’s two-weekend event has over sixty varieties of apples and pears to taste and fun activities for the whole family. It’s free at Por…
Local author publishes second novel
By Nancy Tannler As a full time college professor at Portland Community College for the past twenty years, Jan Underwood experienced first…
Colonel Owen Summers: “Father of the Oregon National Guard”
By Don MacGillivray People often ask about the name of Buckman’s Colonel Summers Park and some suggest that there might be a better one.…
Oregon Benefits from State Health Reform
By Eve Dodds The people of Oregon are about to get healthier. A national study by the Department of Health and Human Services has shown that Or…
A House and Its Stories
By Cat Wurdack In 1859, at the same time a modest, stick-frame house was being built on a hill in Portland, Charles Dickens published A T…
Dahlia Festival
The public is invited to celebrate the 7th Annual Old House Dahlia on Sept. 7, 8 and Sept. 14, 15 from 10 am – 5 pm, 8005 SE Mill St. View over …
From an Unknown Library: The Scoop on Ex Libris Anonymous
By Jake Redmill Perhaps one of the most reflective experiences is that of journal-writing. People familiar with the pastime know there are…
Letters to the Editor Sept 13
Dear editor; On behalf of Oregon’s 242 cities, the League of Oregon Cities would like to thank Representative Jules Bailey (SE Portland) f…
Locals leave for West Africa
By John McLaren Donn and Karin Maier are leaving their comfortable home in Mt. Tabor for a three-year assignment directing and teaching at…
Monitoring earthquakes in Cascadia
By Elizabeth VanBoskirk and Linda Rowan As anyone who has visited or lived in the Pacific Northwest knows, there is a plate-crunching coll…
Waterwise garden creates a haven
With the abundance of rain in Oregon, it’s easy to think we have an endless supply of water. While the Portland metro area receives about 37 inches of …
Welcome to Portland’s Famous Hawthorne Street Fair!
Hooray for summer! Join us on Sunday August 18, from 11 am to 7 pm as we celebrate Hawthorne District! NEW UPDATE: The following is a list p…
Ready, set – derby!
By Cat Wurdack It’s derby time in Portland - and racers are readying their boxcars. Every year, soapbox riders speed down Mt. Tabor at an …
World Class Art Glass
By Don MacGillivray In the nineteenth century, Portland was home to one of the premier makers of art glass windows in the country. Povey B…
Hollywood’s switch to digital imperils Academy Theater
By Kristin Schuchman “We very much wanted to honor the history and unique style of this building by creating a 1940s feel, but we also wanted the …
Information Kiosks Connect South Tabor Neighbors
By Mary Louise Ott On a Sunday afternoon in April, a whir of drills and the smell of paint mixes with laughter in a South Tabor garage. Six neighb…
Baseball diamonds refurbished at Glencoe
Glencoe Elementary School is situated in the heart of southeast Portland, the perfect location for baseball fans to gather and watch the all American s…
Rural setting for an urban preschool
By Kristin Schuchman When sending their kids to preschool, most parents are content to find a place that keeps kids safe and reasonably engaged --…
The passing of a SE landmark
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 Ce…
Newspace Center for Photography: From Albumen to Digital
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 …
New retail business collaboration
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…
Be smart and Be Prepared
By Callie Jones This June and July, the Richmond Neighborhood Association hosts a series of four emergency preparedness workshops for the Richmond…
From a glimmer of an idea to a celebration
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 comi…
Bargain hunting on SE Division
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…
What’s going on – IV
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…
SE UPDATES
Day laborers want to own hiring site VOZ, a non-profit that works and advocates for day-laborers, especially Latinos, is seeking to gain o…
Kelly Butte
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 acqu…
Letters to the Editor May 2013
Dear Editor, I read with interest your article on Fluoridation. The National Academy of Sciences absolutely endorses fluoridation (www.cdc.gov/fluor…
QUEEN OF THE SUN: What are the Bees Telling Us?
All proceeds will benefit Friends of Portland Community Gardens, who is hosting the event with the Portland Parks Foundation. Wi…
One person analyzes trash impact
Southeast resident Sally Oakes decided to collect her garbage for one year just to see what it would amount to. Exactly how much does one person du…
Letters to the Editor April 2013
Dear Editor: The pending nomination of the north Buckman neighborhood to be an historic district is bad news for homeowners. There is no e…
Fluoridation information
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 flu…
Habitat for Humanity ReStore relocates
The Habitat for Humanity ReStore has relocated from the inner Eastside to the Gateway District, 10445 SE Cherry Blossom Dr. What began as an occ…
What’s Going on in There – lll
By Mike Klepfer GuildWorks is like many of its neighbors - set into former industrial space near the river, and difficult to tell exactly what…
Tucker-Maxon School excels
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 Chinooks; Indians of the Lower Columbia
By Don MacGillivray Imagine evergreen forests and meadow where wild game roam, streams teeming with fish, a mild climate, snow capped mountain…
Letters to the Editor March 2013
Dear Editor, In 10 weeks on May 21, we will be voting on the fluoride issue. Please tell (and remind again later) 10 of your friends to vote NO! and…
What’s Going on in There – ll
By Mike Klepfer In the central East side industrial area, squat gray buildings crowd together, concentrating as roads move west towards the ri…
Continuing resistance of water ruling Bull Run
By Stephen Paulsen Last Thursday, a small but resolute crowd gathered at the Mt. Tabor Presbyterian Church to hear a presentation by Scott Fernand…
Former REACH director heads East
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 beyon…
Clinton Street Theatre turns 100
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 a…
Local nonprofit recycles goods to developing countries
A new non-profit is helping enrich communities in developing countries. Founded by SE resident Clark Negen in 2011, Sharecycle focuses on shipping don…
Sculpting an unusual medium
By Nancy Tannler When you are driving down lower Stark St., a bold sign bearing the name of Carole Murphy might catch your eye. It is a sign for …
Inside the Publishing Process
Local author Caroline Miller’s third book, Trompe L’Oeil (To Fool the Eye) has just been published by Clackamas publisher Koho Pono LLC. She has storie…
Eastside Village PDX–A plan for aging in place
A planning group of Eastside residents have enthusiastically taken on the task of developing the first aging-in-place “Village” in the Portland metro a…
The Holiday Express
The 8th annual Holiday Express will run three weekends, starting Friday afternoon, November 30. It will be pulled by the Spokane, Portland & Se…
Mount Tabor residents help in Africa
By Houston Bolles Twelve year old Julian Hamley, a seventh grader at Mount Tabor Middle School, recently found himself with a crucial task–helpi…
Simplifying the system for the disabled
Ten years ago, five families sued the state for making them wait a decade to facilitate Medicaid help for their disabled children. The incident motivat…
A tale of two theaters
By Emily Liedel The original entrance to the oldest building on SE 37th and Hawthorne is at 3634 SE Hawthorne Blvd, now the second entrance to t…
Terry Currier’s 40 Years at Music Millennium
As the doors opened at Music Millennium on the Ides of March (March 15), 1969, the times they were definitely a-changin’. The quiet corner of SE…
Taking on the EcoChallenge
The Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire people to take responsibility for Earth. Since NWEI starte…
In case of an emergency
The Boy Scout motto “Be Prepared” was taken seriously by the owner of Portland Preparedness Center due to personal experience. Twenty plus years…
Fact sheet on water fluoridation with bibliography
(Letter excerpt) ...I was invited by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to speak before the Democratic House of Representatives in 2002, on the issue of hea…