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Portland police arrested a 24-year-old Portland man in connection with a stabbing early Sunday morning that left a woman in serious condition. Exie C. Phillips is charged with attempted murder and first-degree assault. He was booked into the Multnomah County Jail pending arraignment. According to ...

Time to spring forward. Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, March 14, when we all turn our clocks ahead one hour. It ends Sunday, Nov. 7. Daylight saving time began as a way to add light to the evening hours of spring and summer. It’s also considered a way to save energy, ...

Like its neighboring cities, Fairview’s economic growth and quality of life is largely dependent on the quality of its roads and transportation corridors. After reviewing a five-year Multnomah County capital improvement plan, city leaders are concerned that the county’s funding ...

The city of Troutdale has hired a former city manager from cities in Oregon and Alaska to fill its recently vacated city administrator position for the next six months. Ron Garzini, who resides with his wife in Redmond, was chosen out of three candidates who applied for the interim role after ...

H. Albert “Al” Gantenbein Jan. 21, 1916-March 3, 2010 Former Gresham resident H. Albert “Al” Gantenbein, 94, died Wednesday, March 3, in Hillsboro. A memorial service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 15, at Gateway Baptist Church, 13300 N.E. San Rafael St., ...

MONDAY, MARCH 15 Gresham Urban Forestry Subcommittee – 4:30 p.m., City Hall, Springwater Trail Room, 1333 N.W. Eastman Parkway. Call Tina Osterink at 503-618-2392 for information. Central City Neighborhood – 7 p.m., MetroEast Community Media, 829 N.E. Eighth St. For more information, ...

The Gresham Outlook welcomes calendar notices for weekly public events and support group meetings in East County. To submit an item, simply send the information to Dateline, The Gresham Outlook, P.O. Box 747, Gresham, 97030; e-mail to chall@theoutlookonline.com; or fax it to 503-665-2187 at least ...

The Gresham Outlook welcomes calendar notices for weekly public events and support group meetings in East County. To submit an item, simply send the information to Dateline, The Gresham Outlook, P.O. Box 747, Gresham, 97030; e-mail to chall@theoutlookonline.com; or fax it to 503-665-2187 at least ...

ON Semiconductor plans to hire approximately 25 technicians and engineers this year to facilitate expansion of its Gresham manufacturing operations at 23400 N.E. Glisan St., according to Anne Spitza, ON spokeswoman. The positions would augment approximately 500 employees at the 83-acre Gresham ...

A ring of 11 teens and young men, including four Centennial High School students, face charges of theft and organized retail theft for allegedly stealing up to $20,000 worth of designer jeans from high end department stores. Portland police made the arrests Wednesday, March 10, after a nearly ...

Police arrested a woman on a warrant after a bullet was fired through the floor of her apartment and into the unit below. Officers responded to a noon report of a bullet fired through a wall at an apartment in the 2600 block of Southeast 174th Avenue, one block south of Division Street, said ...

Troutdale arch goes up Tuesday The long-awaited Troutdale Centennial Arch will be installed across Historic Columbia River Highway on its decorative pillars between 9 a.m. and noon Tuesday, March 16. The 13-ton archway is scheduled to be transported by two semi-trucks from its fabrication site on ...

The Reynolds School District Board voted 6-0 March 11 to approve sending the district’s sixth-graders to Outdoor School this year. The students will attend a two-day/one-night Outdoor School — an environmental education program — the first week of June, according to Michelle ...

Zuri Herrejon, 11, succinctly summed up what she owes Mother Earth. “I just like helping the Earth. It made me live,” said the fifth-grader at Lynch View Elementary School in the Centennial School District. That, in a nutshell, is what drove scores of students and adults from across ...

Gresham High School Principal Carol Daiberl has announced that she will retire at the end of the school year. Daiberl has worked at Gresham High since 1979, where she began her educational career as a social studies and physical education teacher before later joining the school’s ...

Multnomah County commission candidate Enrique Arias dropped out of the race Thursday to replace Commissioner Jeff Cogen’s position. In a brief game of political musical chairs Tuesday, the filing deadline for the May 18 primary, Multnomah County Chairman Ted Wheeler backed out of his ...

Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler vaulted overnight into statewide office Tuesday when Gov. Ted Kulongoski appointed him interim state treasurer, two days after Treasurer Ben Westlund’s unexpected death from cancer. But Wheeler is taking a risk by dumping his shoo-in re-election campaign ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gorge paving project begins Road crews are working to resurface Interstate 84 from Multnomah Falls to Cascade Locks from March to November. The $11.3 million project will pave in both directions, as well as the entrance and exit ramps. The Oregon Department of Transportation asks motorists to be ...