By The Yaquina Wavelength The Toledo City Council chambers were filled to capacity Wednesday night with residents who wanted to speak about or show support for fired city maintenance employee Shannon Monroe. Monroe and another man, Robert “Therron” Kraft were seriously injured May 5 when their vehicle was sideswiped by a Land Rover driven by [...]

By Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) of BikePortland The Portland Bureau of Transportation has just completed a new shared-use path as part of their North Portland Connector neighborhood greenway project. The new pathway connects N Westanna Ave to Newell Ave and to the Peninsula Crossing Trail just north of Lombard. The pathway is a crucial section of [...]

By Chad Walsh with Neighborhood Notes Lately, it seems as though a new burger joint opens its doors in some Portland neighborhood just about every week. But few of them stay open past 10 p.m. So when most kitchens have shut down for the night, where can you go when you’re in the mood for [...]

By David Morgan with News Lincoln County The Japanese Dock’s days are now clearly numbered. Ballard Diving and Salvage out of Vancouver began building a railroad-tie-road from the Agate Beach parking area to the ocean. Soon cut-up pieces of the dock will travel southward from the dock to a straight line road across the sand [...]

By Yaquina Wavelength Siletz Tribal member and executive chef Jack Strong won an Iron Chef-style cooking competition at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. July 22. It was part of the annual museum’s annual Living Earth Festival. Strong is executive chef at Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City. He competed [...]

Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) BikePortland If you or any of your friends are transportation wonks, than you already know how powerful “level of service” (LOS) standards are. For the uninitiated, LOS is a measurement tool used by traffic engineers and planners to grade how a road or intersection “performs” in terms of traffic flow. [...]

By Tony Fuentes with Neighborhood Notes For this month’s Movers & Makers, Neighborhood Notes connected with one of Portland’s cool treat entrepreneurs, Kevin Bell, founder of Oregon Ice Works. We talked business and left room for dessert. NN: What was the inspiration for Oregon Ice Works? KB: Growing up in Philadelphia, “water ice” is a [...]

By Jack Cluth with Oregon Sports News The Olympics have begun, and a number of local athletes are in London representing the US. Galen Rupp is a legitimate threat in the 10,000 meter run, an event that hasn’t seen an American on the medal stand since Billy Mills in 1964. The skinny kid from Central [...]

By Helen Silvis Of The Skanner News When Rev. Fredi Jackson bought her home in the East Portland, in 2009, she could easily afford the mortgage. But after her renters moved out, paying became more difficult. She tried to refinance and was approved for a short-term modification. Since then, she’s been trying to get a [...]