Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Thursday evening December 12, 7-9 pm will be the Buckman Community Association’s monthly meeting and our annual holiday meetup! Join us at 1137 SE 20th […]
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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 Join the BCA for our fourth and last District 3 candidate Q&A forum at our next monthly meeting, Thursday, October 10. This election will feature
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay The Buckman Community Association meets monthly every second Thursday of the month, 7-9 pm at 1137 SE Salmon St. Enter on SE Salmon St. just
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Sunday, August 4, 4-8 pm, the Buckman Community Association brings the 12th Annual Buckman Picnic in the Park back to Colonel Summers Park, SE 17th
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Over the next several months, the BCA is hosting at our monthly meetings all the candidates for City Commissioner District 3. In June, we met
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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 Perhaps because downtown is just across the river from us, the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association (HAND) has taken an interest in a large revitalization effort under consideration by
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Board’s March meeting was so busy it kept us overtime. We heard and discussed progress on a brand new school building, a pitch by
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Please join the Buckman Community Association (BCA) Thursday, March 12, 7 pm, in our new ground floor, ADA accessible, in-person meeting space at Hinson Church,
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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 The Hosford Abernethy Neighborhood District (HAND) Board doesn’t hold a meeting in December unless something urgent comes up. We did, however, enjoy a holiday get-together with friends,
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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 The agenda for our September meeting was so chock full, we couldn’t get to all the business. Next month we hope for updates on US Rep. Suzanne
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl In a brief August meeting, the Hosford Abernethy Neighborhood Association (HAND) Board voted to approve a Good Neighbor Agreement that includes the Brooklyn Action Corps, Central Eastside
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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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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay At the June BCA meeting, the Board voted unanimously to support the Alder Map for new Districts and we urge all Buckman residents and our
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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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Foster-Powell Neighborhood Association By Lisa Kislingbury Anderson Foster Powell recently received a grant from SEUplift and the City of Portland Office of Community & Civic Life to paint a street
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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 Serious discussion of community involvement dominated the November meeting of Hosford Abernethy NA’s Board and neighbors. Top of our list was working out how to proceed
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Hosford-Abernethy is a neighborhood of contrasts, from St. Phil Neri to a Buddhist temple; customer-owned Peoples Co-op to giant New Seasons; tree-lined streets to three main
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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 At the July meeting of the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association, Board members and others in attendance moved their attention to the city as a whole. Coming up
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The Board of the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood asked Paul Leistner, who has long been involved in citizen participation in Portland for a brief history. He said we
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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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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Every 10 years, Portland looks anew at its charter (in many ways like the Constitution) under which the city is organized. Julia Meier is Portland’s project
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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 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 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 At the HAND Board’s November meeting, it was all action. We celebrated the opening of the Gideon Overcrossing, voted to support Quiet Clean PDX in its
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Smoky, rain-and-shine September, and digging out of the coronavirus doldrums, our neighborhood, Hosford-Abernethy, along with others should soon be seeing some urban improvements, one being the
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Montavilla Neighborhood Association By Louise Hoff Montavilla Neighborhood Association Board successfully held a virtual general meeting this month and hopes to do the same on September 14, 6:30 pm. Rachel
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Although our neighborhood, like most in our town these days, has been going through a sea of changes with a Black Lives Matter family-focused demonstration on
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The board of the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association met in April using Zoom under the auspices of SE Uplift. We shared how we were faring during these
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By Brian Hochhalter Due to the coronavirus crisis, the RNA has cancelled all meetings until further notice. Please check the RNA’s website for information on meetings. To be added to
By Brian Hochhalter & Allen Field The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on Monday, February 10. Portland Police Sargent Sam Ajir described a renewed effort by the Police
By Brian Hochhalter Richmond Neighborhood Association (richmondpdx.org) held its monthly meeting October 14. In addition to general housekeeping issues and committee reports, we hosted a Pro & Con presentation by
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