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WATCH: Super blue moon rises over Portland Monday
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The super blue sturgeon moon started to rise over the Portland- Vancouver area just after 8:30 p.m. Monday, August 19, 2024. August’s full moon is known as the sturgeon moon. It’s also the third full moon of the summer season, making it a blue moon. Finally, it’s a supermoon. NASA explains a supermoon as a full moon that “occurs when a full moon coincides with the Moon’s closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit, a point known as perigee.”
Les Schwab Invitational returns to Portland, first time since 2003
PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — One of the premiere basketball tournaments in the country is set to return to its roots in Portland. The event will draw elite teams and talent from across the nation. The Rose City will host the Les Schwab Invitational for the first time since 2003....
OSU-Cascades instructor serving as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
NewsChannel 21 spoke to Amy Sabbadini, an instructor at OSU-Cascades who is representing Democrats in Oregon's Fifth US House District at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The post OSU-Cascades instructor serving as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago appeared first on KTVZ.
Newberg interim superintendent applauds employee group agreements, plans for new substitutes
Interim Superintendent Paula Radich’s message to the Newberg school board on Aug. 13 was, to a degree, optimistic. She shared with the board that the district, in seeking downsizing of personnel in light of the district’s growing financial woes, has come to agreement with five employee groups over the past several weeks. She added that although the prep work for the anticipated reduction-in-force process took many hours, the negotiation process only took three days. ...
Newberg school district budget report: Much remains to be done
The state of Newberg-Dundee Public Schools budget for this year and the next took center stage at the school board’s Aug. 13 meeting, with the theme that although much of the news is dire, there is some room for optimism. Gayellyn Jacobson, appointed interim finance director following the resignation of Heather Bixby, testified that the 2023-24 numbers show an ending fund budget of negative $1.7 million, barring any additional yearend amendments required by auditors in late October. ...
Farmers Fought a Factory Farm and Won
Kendra Kimbirauskas and Starla Tillinghast are farmers who live in Scio, a small town in the rural Willamette Valley in Oregon. Home to covered bridges, seed crops, grazing lands, hazelnuts, timber, and small, well-tended dairies, this small farming community wasn’t against raising animals to feed people. But a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) would have completely changed the nature of their community. After learning about how other communities had been affected by large-scale chicken farms, Starla, Kendra, and a handful of their neighbors started Farmers Against Foster Farms and lobbied state and local government to create new regulations that would preserve local farms while keeping CAFOs out.
Banks store owner is all about community
(BANKS) — In Banks, they talk about being “Banks guys and girls.” Mark Ward is a “Banks guy,” and his long-standing commitment to the town in which he grew up is being recognized. The 57-year-old owns Jim’s Market, the primary grocery store in town. While helping to provide the Banks residents with food and supplies for their everyday wants and needs, he believes his responsibilities to those same people and the town in which they all live go beyond the owner/customer relationship. ...
Embracing New Horizons at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum
He Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum Board of Directors announced today that Scot Laney will assume the role of CEO effective immediately. Laney is a highly respected pillar of the community and former Museum Board Director with an affinity for all things history. His proven track record of helping non-profit organizations to scale, combined with his broad range of professional experience and his reputation for effective execution and dynamic leadership made him the perfect candidate for the role.
Trestle fire halts Lake Oswego train traffic indefinitely
A fire that engulfed a train trestle near Fairoaks Drive in southeast Milwaukie early Tuesday morning has halted the train traffic that runs through Lake Oswego and past its multi-million-dollar, lakeside homes.
Linenberger will be reassigned once he returns from medical leave
The fate of Scott Linenberger, hired as deputy to former Superintendent Stephen Phillips in July 2023, was the topic of more than casual discussion during the Aug. 13 Newberg school board meeting. Linenberger, who started his time in Newberg as the district’s director of human resources and assessment, was the former superintendent of the Pleasant Hill School District and has a background in education that includes stints in special education and as a principal. ...
Pushing for sustainability in Lake Oswego
(LAKE OSWEGO) — Dorothy Atwood frames the golden rule — treating others how they would want to be treated — in a futuristic way. She would like people to treat people who have yet to be born with the same compassionate care that they would want for themselves. For the last three decades, Atwood has lived up to this mantra by helping to found the Lake Oswego Sustainability Network, working...
Helping Hands floats proposal for housing
For a reason shrouded in the mist of long ago, the City of Albany owns three lots in the same block as the Albany Helping Hands homeless shelter. The shelter has an idea of how the lots could serve a useful purpose, and it’s not to house people in ragtag tents.
Mark Perlman enters West Linn City Council race
November’s race for two seats on the West Linn City Council will no longer be a given for the two incumbents running. A third candidate, Mark Perlman, entered the race Aug. 19. Perlman — who previously ran for a council seat in May but lost to Councilor Kevin Bonnington — will face current City Councilors Mary Baumgardner and Carol Bryck. He works as a musical director for the Willamette Falls Symphony and Tualatin Valley Symphony. Mayor Rory Bialostosky is still unchallenged in the November mayoral contest. The deadline for candidates to file with the city of West Linn is Aug. 27.
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