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Portland Timbers acquire Mason Toye from CF Montréal
MTL receive: 2025 SuperDraft Pick, conditional GAM. The Portland Timbers have acquired forward Mason Toye from CF Montréal, the clubs announced Tuesday. In exchange for the 25-year-old, Montréal receive Portland's second-round pick in the 2025 MLS SuperDraft presented by adidas. Montréal could also receive $200,000 in conditional General Allocation Money (GAM).
Portland Pickles’ Ten Cent Beer Night: Bad Idea Gone Good?
Roll your eyes back in your head and dream with me, back to a time when America was young. The year is 1974, fifty years ago. The place is Cleveland, a city in Ohio. There's a professional baseball team there, the Indians. They wouldn’t get rid of that offensive team name until 2021. At the time of this tale, they were playing against the Texas Rangers. To gin up attendance, the Indians hosted a promotion, as teams often do. It wasn’t even the cheapest promotion they’d held, but it stands out in the halls of sports history as a bad idea of epic proportions—Ten Cent Beer Night.
Portland Trail Blazers' Josh Hart trade ages worse by the day
In 2023, the Portland Trail Blazers traded Josh Hart to the New York Knicks right before the NBA trade deadline. Roughly a year and a half later, the Blazers have nothing to show from the deal. Here is what Portland and general manager Joe Cronin received for Hart:. Josh Hart...
CHUCKANUT BREWERY SWEET SIXTEEN PARTY SATURDAY
Chuckanut Brewery happily invites everyone to its Sweet Sixteen birthday this Saturday June 27th. The brewery’s party is a celebration marking its 16th anniversary of brewing award winning beers. Both locations will celebrate 12-close at South Nut Tap Room in Skagit Valley (11937 Higgins Airport Way, Burlington) and P. Nut Beer Hall (920 SE Caruthers St) in Portland, OR. Enjoy an exciting day filled with delicious brews, fun games, mouthwatering street food and all kinds of special deals!
New version of MetroMap features enhanced accessibility, data, and tools
For nearly 25 years, the MetroMap application has been a vital resource for city partners, planners, developers and the public. This valuable tool allows users to explore locations in the region and learn about political boundaries, service providers, property values, environmental features and more. You can use MetroMap to access a wide range of data about properties in the region, including:
Why “Excited Delirium” is a Fraud
In June 2024 the Mental Health Association of Portland held its Law & Mental Health Conference with a focus on psychosis. Joanna Naples-Mitchell presented “Why ‘Excited Delirium’ is a Fraud”. In March 2022, Physicians for Human Rights published a report which she co-authored titled “Excited Delirium” and Deaths in Police Custody: The Deadly Impact of a Baseless Diagnosis, which found that “excited delirium” has racist origins, lacks a scientific basis, and should not be used as a diagnosis or cause of death. She reviews the report’s findings and the sweeping changes in law and policy that have followed.
This Oregon baseball team is an answer to today’s New York Times crossword
We may not have major league baseball in Portland but one Portland-area team has made it to the major leagues of a sort: the New York Times daily crossword puzzle. The clue: “Hillsboro ___, minor-league baseball team with a mascot named Barley.”. If you purchase a product or register...
‘Breaks my heart’: Portland church searching for temporary home after vandalization
Leaders at the Bethel Baptist Church of St. Johns are looking for a new place to worship after they say a weekend vandal broke in and sprayed fire extinguishers throughout all three floors of the church, leaving behind thick dust and chemicals on every open surface.
Downtown Portland ‘Area 51 Encounter’ cancels with no explanation
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A traveling exhibition that bills itself as the ‘Area 51 Encounter’ canceled its planned events at the Fox Tower in downtown Portland on Monday, after weeks of advertising and tickets sold. A PR representative for the event emailed FOX 12 on Monday morning around...
DA-elect Nathan Vasquez questions timing of DA’s new jury selection policy
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt this week said he plans to prohibit prosecutors from exercising “peremptory challenges” of prospective jurors in misdemeanor trials, saying the practice “has long created credible evidence of racial and ethnic exclusion of jurors.”. Schmidt in an email to his staff on...
Substance abuse beds at Unity Center delayed until August
The opening of beds for people suffering from severe substance abuse at Unity Center for Behavioral Health has been delayed, a Multnomah County health official told commissioners Tuesday. The psychiatric emergency center announced in May 2023 that it planned to add nine beds by this past spring for people suffering...
Area athletes win regional Junior Olympics titles
Four South Coast athletes won titles in the recent Junior Olympics Northwest Regional track and field championships in Gresham. Mason Detzler of Myrtle Point, competing unattached, won the men’s (17-18 years old) discus with a throw of 167-11 and shot put with an effort of 57-9. Marley Petrey of Bandon, also unattached and competing in the same age group, won the 400-meter hurdles in 1 minute and 4.74 seconds. ...
'Drowning machines': Oregon's ongoing battle with little-known waterway killer
Picture this: It's a warm and sunny day in Oregon, and a group of friends decides to float down the Willamette River. They drive to a boat launch parking lot, gather some food and drinks, and launch themselves downriver in inflatable innertubes. The water gently carries them downstream until, without warning, serene waters...
Oregon livestock farmers will soon face more oversight
Oregon farmers raising sheep, chicken or cows will soon have to comply with new state rules. Environmental groups and some small farm advocates say the changes bring much-needed clarification on who qualifies for a permit usually reserved for large, commercial-scale livestock farms, while some agriculture trade groups say the changes put more undue burden on […] The post Oregon livestock farmers will soon face more oversight appeared first on Oregon Capital Chronicle.
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