The proposal to continue Tualatin’s Central Urban Renewal District by another 25 years leapt at least one major hurdle last week: the Tigard-Tualatin School Board voted 4-1 to approve the plan last Thursday. The decision came on the heels of Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue’s vote ...

Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center’s ongoing effort to secure a zoning change — and make expansion easier in the future — hit a wave of neighborhood resentment this week. Dozens of residents stormed the council meeting to protest the idea of building a large office complex on ...

Give me a T, give me a U, give me an H, give me an S. What’s that spell? The heart of Tualatin. The Tualatin High School cheerleaders have long been an important part of the school’s success, qualifying for OSAA state competition every year under the guidance of Head Coach Tracy ...

Have you ever wanted to know what the inside of a colon looks like? No? Good thinking. It’s not exactly pretty. But last Thursday, visitors in the main lobby of Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center got that view up close and personal, when the giant, inflatable Super Colon came to town as ...

After an explosion of public outcry against the proposed bridge that would extend Tualatin Road over the river at Community Park last week, city officials voted early Tuesday morning to remove the project from the urban renewal plan. The vote came just before 2 a.m. Councilors had been meeting ...

A former teacher at M.I.T.C.H. Charter School says that she was sexually discriminated against and fired after she learned that she would not receive paid maternity leave. The teacher, Gracia H. Merrill, is suing the charter school — and its founder Debi Lorence — in federal court ...

Comedian Steven Wright once joked that “everywhere is walking distance, if you have the time.” Now, people hoping to get to the Tigard Library can get there a little bit easier – and safer – after a new extension of the Fanno Creek Trail officially opens later this ...

“Remarkable.” “Monumental.” “Historic.” It’s rare for local governments in the Portland area to garner such accolades, but that’s what occurred when Metro and the three area counties reached a grand compromise Feb. 25 on what rural lands in the ...

M.I.T.C.H. is moving, and it needs your help. M.I.T.C.H., the Tigard-Tualatin School District’s 8-year-old public charter school is working to raise the funds needed to move from the basement of a local church to its own building and remodel the building to make it ready for ...

The annual Senior Citizens Dance hosted by the Tigard High School leadership class is always popular and highly anticipated by area seniors, and while the attendance this year was not as high as in previous years, those who attended made up for it in spades. There are always repeat ...

Local African-American candidates got shut out in the 2008 elections, despite Barack Obama’s historic victory that year that inspired huge black voter turnout. But with the unexpected death of Oregon Treasurer Ben Westlund Sunday from cancer, two strong African-American candidates emerged ...

Former state Sen. Margaret Carter withdrew from the race for Multnomah County chair Wednesday afternoon, leaving County Commissioner Jeff Cogen in strong position to replace Ted Wheeler as the county’s chief executive. Carter told reporters that she decided to remain as deputy director of ...

Jerry Buxbaum likes playing with matchbox cars. The Scappoose resident does it not because he refuses to grow up – though that’s certainly true – but in order to plan vehicular stunts for the film industry. The puckish 53-year-old makes a full-time freelance living by ...

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State workers take their next unpaid furlough on Friday, March 19, closing nearly all state agencies for the day. About 26,500 state employees will take the mandatory day off as the third of 10 furlough days scheduled during the two-year budget cycle. Each furlough day saves an estimated $2 ...

Should all football fans support every player from the state of Oregon?

Source says Kent's deal with ex-AD Pat Killkenny included a provision that he must finish above .500 in regular-season conference play in 2009-10 to keep job.

By JULIE M. McKINNON BLADE STAFF WRITER Just last month, a "sexting" case surfaced in Oregon City Schools involving some male high school and middle school students with sexually explicit photos of a girl sent to their cell phones, a situation that remains under investigation. While such instances are rare in Oregon, police and attorneys told about 40 parents and district employees last week ...

Any discussion of the state's ruinous boom-or-bust fiscal cycles has to start with reform of the state's "kicker" system, which refunds money to taxpayers when state revenue exceeds projections by 2 percent or more.

Students and their parents looking toward college can visit more than 100 schools, all in one night.