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Youth baseball fans in new competition
With their season barely over, West Linn youth baseball fans have found themselves in a new match-up. It’s the city of West Linn vs. West Linn Baseball Association. Youth sports supporters pummeled the city council with letters over the past week after learning of complaints about ...
Piece by piece
In most scenarios, bulldozers and wrecking balls topple old, unwanted buildings and clear the land for the next generation of construction. But last week in the First Addition workers dismantled a historic home piece-by-piece. Mark Ritter, a local resident and big proponent of deconstruction ...
West Linn developer denies intent to cut trees
Joe Chan didn’t mean to let crews chop down two protected Douglas fir trees in his backyard, his attorney said last week. Chan didn’t comment at his arraignment in West Linn Municipal Court on Thursday. But his attorney, Erick Haynie, said Chan essentially pleaded not guilty, though a ...
Our Lady of the Lake kicks off phase one
Our Lady of the Lake Catholic Parish in Lake Oswego ripped into the two homes at the corner of Evergreen Avenue last week, commencing its first phase of construction of a new multipurpose K-8 school and parish office center. Phase one — the parking lot expansion and sitework — will be ...
Sewer project will make Oswego Lake disappear – briefly
Citizens of Lake Oswego will soon be getting a view of Oswego Lake they haven’t had in nearly half a century. The Lake Down phase of the Lake Oswego Sewer Interceptor project begins on Sept. 8, and the big drop is expected to be about 22 to 24 feet. That is the lowest Oswego Lake has been ...
Community celebrates at ‘Furnace Blast’
More than 250 people gathered on the lawn at George Rogers Park Saturday morning to celebrate the completion of the seven-year restoration of Lake Oswego’s historical iron furnace. “To borrow a phrase from the Grateful Dead, ‘what a long strange trip it’s ...
National Guard helps build Jeff Lucas stadium
Chief Master Staff Sgt. Jeff Roy of the Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Civil Engineers Squadron has worked on military construction projects in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He adds that some of his guard members have also worked on construction projects in Bangladesh, Iraq and ...
Casino backers file suit over petition ruling
Backers of a proposed nontribal casino in Wood Village filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Secretary of State’s office after it determined a constitutional amendment initiative lacked enough valid signatures to qualify for the fall ballot. Filed by Matt Rossman and Bruce Studer of the ...
Worthy Causes
One Portland business is using art to help the restoration and cleanup of the Gulf Coast after the BP oil spill. Southeast Portland-based Pratt & Larson – a 30-year-old manufacturer of custom-made ceramic tiles – this month began selling commemorative handmade, hand-painted 6-inch ...
Casino fight might head to court
It’s a gamble, but both sides in a looming mega-fight over a proposed private casino east of Portland may seek judicial rulings to determine what goes before Oregon voters in November. A proposed constitutional amendment allowing one private casino in Oregon failed to get enough valid ...
Prostitutes’ customers to be sent off to school
It used to be a joke, a perverse bragging right: Portland has the highest per-capita number of porn shops of any U.S. city. Now, Portland has been called a major hub for child sex trafficking, as Dan Rather highlighted in his recent TV special: “Pornland, Oregon: Child Prostitution in ...
Prescription: More sun
Gene Stubbs will admit that just a few years ago he might have laughed at the very research he’s now involved in. He might have thought the theory he’s been testing would have been better suited for zealots desperate for a simple explanation where none existed. Here’s the theory: ...