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Two Purpose-Driven Portland Agencies Join Forces
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 24, 2024-- Digital marketing agency Mad Fish Digital is acquiring brand-building marketing agency Grady Britton. Together, they will provide end-to-end marketing and communications solutions for accelerating business growth and audience connection for mission-minded clients. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240724929104/en/ (Graphic: Business Wire)
Good Morning, News: Oregon Gets Money for Climate Programs, Yellowstone Eruption, and the Return of Chaotic Whales
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Artist and skater Stephen Slappe shares his best day
Stephen Slappe is a digital artist who runs the Dead Media Hour archive, where he showcases videos and stills he finds on old formats such as Super 8, VHS and audio tape. The intrigue: The 50-year-old has been an avid skateboarder since age 4 and loves to explore Portland's underground skate spots from his home in Mill Park in SE Portland.
Milwaukie's nine most expensive homes sold, July 8-21
A house in Portland that sold for $585,500 tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Milwaukie between July 8 and July 21. In total, nine residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past two weeks, with an average price of $464,883, or $306 per square foot.
WATCH: Llamas Roaming Around Airport West of the Gem State
Anxiety and stress overwhelm many of us, and everybody has different ways of dealing with it. For some, they need a day off work to rest and escape society, while others may need therapy, medication, or other treatments. Some face their anxiety and stress head on and try to treat it, while others are in denial and try to escape it and hide it. One common way that has helped handle these diseases is by finding an emotional support animal to help calm them and deal with the anxiety that life throws their way. Recently, someone took their emotional support animal to the airport, and it wasn't one that you would expect to see roaming around the airport.
Study of urban moss raises concerns about lead levels in older Portland neighborhoods
Lead levels in moss are as much as 600 times higher in older Portland, Oregon, neighborhoods where lead-sheathed telecommunications cables were once used compared to lead levels in nearby rural areas, a new study of urban moss has found. The findings raise concerns about lead exposure in pre-1960 neighborhoods where...
Oregon Secures $197M Federal Grant To Reduce Carbon Emissions
PORTLAND, OR -- Oregon is getting one of 25 federal grants to reduce carbon emissions. EPA Regional Administrator Casey Sixkiller announced the state's nearly $200 million award Monday in Portland, "A truly historic investment by the United State Environmental Protection Agency in supporting efforts on the ground, here in the state of Oregon that recognizes the role the state of Oregon plays as a leader, not just here in the Pacific Northwest, but around the country, in curbing carbon emissions and working to address climate change that so many of our communities are facing today."
Xin Ding Dumpling House Is Bringing Diners Downtown
There’s something unusual about the dumpling shop on the corner of Southwest 2nd Avenue and Ash Street: It’s crowded. The bustle at Xin Ding Dumpling House (71 SW 2nd Ave., 503-345-7777, xindingdumplinghouse.com) would have been noteworthy even before the pandemic; the blocks in and near Old Town/Chinatown have not been destinations for Chinese food obsessives for the better part of a century. But in a moment when rubberneckers track the auction prices of downtown office buildings like they’re the wheezing breaths of a dying king, the sight of diners packing all available corners of a 31,000-square-foot hall feels a little miraculous.
Campfires temporarily banned at majority of Oregon parks due to dry conditions, wildfires
All parks east of the Cascades and many others across the state, including some restrictions at certain coastal parks, will have the ban in place until conditions improve, officials said.
Hillary Clinton is coming to Portland weeks before 2024 presidential election
When Hillary Clinton visits Portland this fall on a book tour, she may have some insight into the national moment. Clinton, who ran for president in 2016 and lost the race to Donald Trump, will take the stage at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, just two weeks before an as-yet-undetermined Democrat takes on Trump, now in his third presidential run.
Portland explores repealing standalone arts tax, pushing pricey new ‘parks and arts’ levy in 2025
Portland officials are in the early stages of exploring a potential 2025 ballot measure that would seek to significantly increase money collected from property owners to fund city parks and arts services. A new combined “parks and arts” levy would more than double a city parks tax approved by voters...
Portland United Hockey League Provides a Space for Female, Trans and Nonbinary Players
As a young woman growing up in the Eugene area with a yen for ice hockey, Jess Duggan’s options were few. It was either play with the boys or don’t play at all. “I started playing when I was 16 on an adult coed rec team,” she recalls. “There was no girls hockey for kids.”
Is Harbor Freight's Portland Pressure Washer Worth It? Here's What Owners Say
Harbor Freight has been a consistent favorite among handymen, DIYers, and everyone in between. Each location is full of power tools, hand tools, safety equipment, and so much more. Sweetening the deal, the store is rather cost effective, boasting multiple excellent finds for under $50. One such reasonably-priced piece is the Portland corded electric pressure washer, which runs $89.99. It features a 20-foot hose and adjustable nozzle, with a maximum pressure of 1,750 PSI. With that information alone, it seems like a decent buy, but is it truly worth the money? Many of those who've taken it for a spin have a lot to say about it.
Portland State's Ann Cudd: What's next
Ann Cudd's first year leading Portland State University took a dramatic turn when student protests over the war in Gaza broke out on campus in the spring, leading to arrests and $750,000 in damages at the school library. Why it matters: While the school was just one across the nation...
Blazers' Chauncey Billups once chewed out 'motherf****r' who posted dunk on IG at halftime
Social media has changed the way fans follow professional sports. This has also changed how players can market themselves. Building a brand is paramount in this day and age, and what better way for someone to do it than to post or repost their highlights? However, as this unnamed Portland Trail Blazers player learned quickly, you cannot be doing these things in the middle of the game, especially when you're getting blown to bits.
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