Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Monthly meetings resume Thursday, September 11 for the Buckman Community Association. Last month we hosted a very successful 13th Annual Buckman Picnic in the Park. […]
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay The next Buckman Community Association (BCA) meeting will be held Thursday, May 8, 7-9 pm. Join us at 1137 SE 20th Ave. (enter on Salmon
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Join the Buckman Community Association Thursday, November 14 for our General Membership meeting. Meetings are held in person at Hinson Church, 1137 SE. 20th Ave.,
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Thursday, June 20 is Election Night at the BCA!! We have four open Board positions, each available for a two-year term. The only requirements are
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association (HAND) Board met January 16 via Zoom due to severe weather. A report from the group that monitors how the Clinton Triangle (TASS)
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl Highlights from the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association’s (HAND) November Board meeting included attendees hearing from Jan Zuckerman, representing a group alerting Portland to what would happen in event
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl Darkness has overtaken the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association’s (HAND) monthly meetings on the St. Philip Neri campus. We will have a signboard outside the administrative building where we
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl Hot time, summer in the city and there is lots going on. At our Hosford-Abernethy (HAND) July meeting, we agreed to support the Linnton neighborhood’s struggle over
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl A large number of neighbors attended the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association’s first in-person meeting in three years. It was held in Carvlin Hall on the St. Philip
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Plans are shaping up quickly for a temporary, tiny-house village this summer on a long-neglected open space at SE 19th Ave. just west of New Seasons.
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl City plans call for our neighborhood to host what could be the first of several large encampments for people who are homeless. The Board and other
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl In response to the fatality last year at SE 26th Ave. and Powell Blvd., Tom Mills, TriMet’s director of mobility planning and policy, attended our January
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Board took a December break, but didn’t lose sight of some ongoing concerns. Two involve situations that lie on our borders: the river
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Fall is here, schools are finally back in full session, and we have a handful of issues to attend to in our neighborhood. At the September
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Montavilla Neighborhood Association By Jacob Loeb The Montavilla Neighborhood Association (MNA) skipped the August meeting to give members a summer break and Board members a rest after a successful showing
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl A tiny homes village in HAND? The Hosford-Abernethy neighborhood is entertaining the possibility. At its general meeting May 17, residents listened to a report on the
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl At our upcoming annual May meeting, the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association (HAND) is inviting our neighbors to hear about and share tentative plans for a tiny house
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Buckman Community Association By Susan Lindsay The Buckman Community Association will host a public Candidate Forum virtually Thursday, April 14, 7 pm. All candidates for Multnomah County Chair and Portland
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Buckman Community Association By Susan Lindsay At this month’s BCA meeting, developers of a 12-story apartment complex slated for SE 9th Ave. and SE Sandy Blvd., and a new housing
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Buckman Community Association By Susan Lindsay Buckman Community Association, buckmanpdx.org, meets Thursday, December 9, 7-9 pm virtually. Contact BCA anytime at buckmanboard@googlegroups.com for the link or to bring any item
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Buckman Community Association By Susan Lindsay The Buckman Community Association will deviate ever so slightly in November and meet Thursday, November 18, 7 pm. This is due to the national
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Buckman Neighborhood Association By Susan Lindsay Buckman Community Association meets the second Thursday of the month, 7-9 pm. Currently we are meeting virtually, as our regular meeting hall, the Multnomah
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association Board had planned to reconvene in-person meetings in September, but will review that decision given the rise of the new delta COVID-19
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Pressing business for the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association was a request to sign onto a petition initiated by the Linnton Neighborhood, and joined so far by more
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl At its June meeting, the Hosford-Abernethy Board heard from two Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) departments, the group that is re-striping and repaving Hawthorne Blvd, and
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association held what might be one of its last Zoom board meetings on May 18. We discussed the situation and decided to wait
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Within Hosford Abernethy Neighborhood Association’s boundaries lie Ladd’s Addition, Colonial Heights, the Central Eastside Industrial District, OMSI and various and assorted small-businesses, renters, homeowners and people
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Three main issues dominated Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association’s concerns this winter, none of which required action from the board, which holds elections in May. All are welcome
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy board met this chilly, snowy month via Zoom and held wide-ranging conversations on our neighborhood’s needs and problems, such as how we can best
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Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association By Jill Riebesehl Now, two months since we last met, the HAND board with many faces, some new, started the New Year with a bang of a
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Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association By Jill Riebesehl The HAND Board has a long hiatus over the holidays, but we anticipate interesting challenges in the coming year. It looks as if Catholic
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Laying low during COVID-19, in July the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association heard, via Zoom, from TriMet regarding progress on the Division Transit Project. The agency has kept
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By Kim Kasch North Tabor Neighborhood Association is working on safety concerns for our neighborhood. To help us with our goals we will have the Police Commander speak at our
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By Kim Kasch North Tabor Neighborhood Association is looking to have you share your opinions and ideas with us in 2020 to make our neighborhood the best it can be
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By Zach Michaud Come by the meeting to connect with the Neighborhood Cleanup committee who, in partnership with Mt. Tabor Neighborhood, will host the Cleanup on Saturday, April 27
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By Joshua Carey North Tabor Neighborhood Association will have a business meeting to discuss a budget plan, Tuesday, July 17, 6:30 pm, at 4837 NE Couch. The meeting is open
By Joshua Carey, North Tabor Neighborhood Association will meet Tuesday, June 19, 6:30 pm, at 4837 NE Couch. The meeting is open to the public. To contact the board,
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By Joshua Carey North Tabor Neighborhood Association will have a board meeting Tuesday, May 15, 6:30 pm, at 4837 NE Couch. The meeting is open to the public. Mark
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By Joshua Carey North Tabor Neighborhood Association has its general meeting Tuesday, April 17, 6:30 pm, at 4837 NE Couch. Mark Wells, City of Portland Crime Prevention Coordinator, will
By Joshua Carey North Tabor Neighborhood Association will have a business meeting Tuesday, March 20, 6:30 pm, at 4837 NE Couch. February’s presentation on emergency preparedness had to be postponed
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By Joshua Carey North Tabor Neighborhood Association will have a general meeting Tuesday, Feb. 20, 6:30 pm, at 4837 NE Couch to discuss Emergency Preparedness 101. Planning is ongoing for
By Joshua Carey Officer elections took place at the November board meeting. Continuing as board officers are Joshua Carey, chair; Charles Tubens, vice-chair; and Sarah Mongue, secretary. Dawn Madden
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By Cathy Riddell North Tabor Neighborhood Association’s annual meeting drew an audience of about 80 on a weeknight to meet with Mayor Ted Wheeler and, it was hoped, participate
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By Cathy Riddell Providence Portland Medical Center’s annual meeting with neighbors in North Tabor and Laurelhurst is scheduled for Wednesday, October 11, 7 pm at the Providence Cancer Center Amphitheater,
North Tabor News by Gabe Frayne Sgt. Randy Teig of the Portland Police Bureau’s Neighborhood Response Team presented at the August meeting on the visible increase in homeless encampments and
By Gabe Frayne As was widely reported in local media, an early-morning fire destroyed a building on the north side of the 5600 block of Glisan St. on July 13
By Gabe Frayne North Tabor residents surely have no memory of a crime spree as prolific as that which took place in our vicinity this past Memorial Day weekend.
By Gabe Frayne NTNA board members were surprised to learn at the monthly board meeting on March 21 that 1000 dollars is being held in reserve for North Tabor by
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By Gabe Frayne A “disaster preparedness” presentation offered by north Tabor residents Sean Besso and Linda Bellerby at the NTNA meeting on February 21 alerted residents to the fact
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By Gabe Frayne Two tenants from the Chestnut Court apartments on the 5200 block of SE Stark, directly across from the Portland Nursery, presented at the North Tabor Neighborhood Association
By Gabe Frayne A month-long pause in construction on a half-finished five-unit condo building at the corner of E. Burnside and NE 57th, where a small locksmith business once
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by Gabe Frayne North Tabor resident Lisa Hersh encountered an unpleasant surprise one day two weeks ago when she went out her back door and discovered that contractors had removed the rear portion
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By Gabe Frayne The September NTNA meeting was dominated by a lively discussion of homelessness both citywide and in the neighborhood. One resident typified the ambivalent sentiment in the
By Gabe Frayne North Tabor’s rapidly increasing residential density continues apace as two new demolition and construction projects were unveiled at Land Use and Transportation Committee meetings over the summer.
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By Dana Savoie On October 21, NTNA held its yearly elections. We are happy to say that almost all of our current board members renewed their terms for another
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By Dana Savoie The North Tabor Neighborhood Association (NTNA) has been gaining momentum and exploring more ways to help the neighborhood. The Land Use and Transportation Committee is preparing
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By Dana Savole North Tabor based CURBS (Citizen’s United Rebuilding Burnside Safely) has been hard at work focusing on making the neighborhood safer for all modes of travel. Through
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By Dana Savole All are welcome at the next North Tabor Neighborhood board meeting Tuesday, July 15, 5600 NE Glisan from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. We will be
By Cathy Riddell The January North Tabor Friends of Trees planting was successful and gave a new home to more than twenty trees, including much- needed new trees along
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By Beth Sanders The next North Tabor Neighborhood Association open board meeting is Tuesday, February 18, from 6:30-8:30 pm at NorthStar, 5600 NE Glisan St. The Land Use and Transportation Committee
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North Tabor By Catherine Riddell North Tabor Neighborhood hosted a “Neighborhood Visioning” in November facilitated by Ashe Urban of SE Uplift. Neighbors gathered to proposed ideas and brainstorm action
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by Melissa Bockwinkel Thank you to everyone who has submitted ideas for our Mural Project! The muralists brought their design to our last Board meeting and it is
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By Melissa Bockwinkel We had a great turnout for the Meet the Muralist open house Sunday, February 24 for the Mural Project at NE 47th and Burnside.
By Melissa Bockwinkel The Friends of Trees planting January 19 was a success. We planted 100 trees throughout North Tabor, Kerns, Sunnyside, and Laurelhurst. Thank you to everyone
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By Melissa Bockwinkel It’s Friends of Trees time again! The FOT planting day for Laurelhurst, Kerns, Sunnyside, and North Tabor is January 19. In North Tabor alone we estimate
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By Melissa Bockwinkel North Tabor Neighborhood Association will be holding its December board meeting on Wednesday, December 5, at Emilie House, 5520 NE Glisan. North Tabor has
