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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 ...

City staff members have proposed expanding elements of a package of small-business incentives unveiled last month by Mayor Shane Bemis during his state of the city address. Gresham city councilors considered the proposal – designed to get home-based business owners into vacant storefronts ...

When Fairview Police Chief Ken Johnson joined the department, there was no streamlined way for a citizen to file a complaint against – or a compliment supporting – an officer. “To file a complaint, you had to call up the department, leave a voice mail and wait for someone to get ...

Cathe Wiese, executive director of My Father’s House, has been named this year’s Gresham Area Citizen of the Year. The East Metro Association of Realtors, in partnership with the Gresham Area Chamber of Commerce, also named Barlow High School senior Shelby Hollenbeck as the 2010 Youth ...

To speed or not to speed — that was the question facing Nicholas Morrell, 17, a junior at Centennial High School, as he took the field at Mt. Hood Community College the morning of March 6. Nicholas had just earned his driver’s license the day before and was one of 37 teenagers, as well ...

THURSDAY, MARCH 11 Northwest Neighborhood Association – 6:30 p.m., Gresham City Hall, Conference Room 2B, 1333 N.W. Eastman Parkway. Call Barbara Adams at 503-667-1871. Fairview Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee – 6 p.m., City Hall, Park View Conference Room, 1300 N.E. Village ...

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 ...

TriMet says its ridership went up in February for the first time in a year. The transit agency said that 7.9 million trips were taken in February up 1.4 percent from February 2009. MAX ridership showed the most gains, in part due to the new Green Line and the shift to free rides only on rail in ...

A fire around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, completely destroyed an apartment in a duplex at 18305 N.E. Wasco St., displacing a family of four, including a father, mother and two teenage children. The fire was reportedly started when someone in the apartment burned debris in the fireplace. Some of ...

Damascus voters failed to pass four measures on the March 9 ballot. The initiatives proposed prohibiting light rail in Damascus without a vote, limiting the city’s use of emergency clauses to put ordinances into effect faster, limiting city spending increases to no more than 2.5 percent a ...

Multnomah County’s Ted Wheeler was among the three Democrats and one Republican who filed Tuesday to run in the May primary for the state treasurer’s position. They were among 310 people who filed for positions across the state, including governor, the U.S. Senate and all 60 state ...

Ted Wheeler’s appointment as state treasurer has set off a scramble to fill the two Multnomah County commission seats up for election this year — the ones occupied by Wheeler and Commissioner Jeff Cogen. Until Tuesday morning, no one with any political experience had filed against ...

Multnomah County Chairman Ted Wheeler was named Tuesday as the new state treasurer, filling the vacancy left by Sunday’s death of Ben Westlund. Gov. Ted Kulongoski announced the appointment in the morning, saying Wheeler “brings the perfect balance of expertise from both the public and ...

Troutdale detectives arrested a Gresham resident on Sunday, March 7, in connection with an armed robbery of OxyContin from the Walgreen’s pharmacy at Southwest 257th Avenue and Southeast Stark Street on Monday, Feb. 22. Police arrested Federico Sanchez Jr., 21, at his Gresham home around 3 ...

The man accused of opening fire on a Gresham poker room, critically injuring one man and causing permanent injury to another, will remain behind bars on $2.25 million bail. Carroll L. Mayfield, 66, of Sandy looked like a harmless grandfather when he appeared before Multnomah County Circuit Court ...

It’s been a positive week for Fairview’s business world. On the same day solar component manufacturer Ferrotec announced it would establish a plant employing 30 at Townsend Business Park, a long-established equipment development business said it would expand its Fairview ...

KPAM 860’s Victoria Taft moved Monday morning to a new time slot, going head-to-head with conservative talk radio host Lars Larson. The Victoria Taft Show is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., giving her an hour’s head start on Larson, the dean of local conservative talk show hosts. Taft’s ...

Oregon State Treasurer Ben Westlund died early Sunday morning of cancer. Westlund, 60, became the new state treasurer in January 2009. Before that, he served 12 years in the Legislature and at one time was co-chairman of the budget-writing Joint Committee on Ways and Means. He had been battling ...

Irene N. Hartwig Dec. 29, 1934-Feb. 23, 2010 East Portland resident Irene N. Hartwig, 75, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, at home with her family. At her request, no services will be held. Irene was born Dec. 29, 1934, in Little Rock, Ark., to Harry and Yvonne Norris. She moved many times during ...