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Soaring fatalities bring back ‘Traffic Division’

With traffic fatalities surging, the Portland Police Bureau is reinstating its Traffic Division – but, they say, for limited hours each day. Read moreSoaring fatalities bring back ‘Traffic Division’

OHA publishes ‘final’ public health assessment for Bullseye Glass in Brooklyn

On Monday, May 15, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) published its “final draft” of the public health assessment of the Brooklyn neighborhood-based Bullseye Glass… Read moreOHA publishes ‘final’ public health assessment for Bullseye Glass in Brooklyn

50th annual Milk Carton Boat Races previewed with BBQ

For many families, a great way to spend the early evening of Thursdaty, May 11, was to enjoy a wiener-and-sausage barbecue at Sellwood Community House, while lear… Read more50th annual Milk Carton Boat Races previewed with BBQ

Multnomah County Chair delivers ‘State of the County’ at Franklin High

Breaking with tradition, Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson chose to present her “State of the County” address in the Franklin High School Auditorium, a… Read moreMultnomah County Chair delivers ‘State of the County’ at Franklin High

Reed neighborhood murder suspect arrested in Vancouver

On April 15th at 11:25 p.m., Central Precinct officers responded to reports of a shooting in the Reed neighborhood a short distance east of the Reed College campu… Read moreReed neighborhood murder suspect arrested in Vancouver

Parks Bureau holds public ‘parks lighting’ meeting in Sellwood

After the hue and cry by residents in affected neighborhoods, and by the Southeast Uplift neighborhood coalition, after the abrupt removal of all park lighting in… Read moreParks Bureau holds public ‘parks lighting’ meeting in Sellwood

82nd Avenue of Roses Parade returns, to kick off Rose Festival season

The last Saturday in April just wasn’t the same, for the last three years – because of the absence of the “82nd Avenue of Roses Parade”. But, now with the pandemi… Read more82nd Avenue of Roses Parade returns, to kick off Rose Festival season

Sellwood-Moreland Farmers Market flourishes at latest location

If the success of their opening day for the season on May 13 is any indication, changing the day, time, and location of the Sellwood-Moreland Farmers Market (SMFM) last year continues to be a winning strategy.

Return of ‘School Resource Officers’ a possibility

A shooting outside Cleveland High School left a 16-year-old student injured on Monday, December 12, and sparked renewed talks of School Resource Officers on Portland campuses.

TriMet Board deciding on fare increase plan

TriMet is still mulling the new bus route ideas we have shared with you in recent months. But by the time you receive this newspaper they will have decided what they will do to nudge fares a bit to help cover their increasing costs.

‘SE Powell Blvd Safety Workgroup’ meets with agencies, for a safer highway

Once again, on the Wednesday evening of April 26, the “S.E. Powell Blvd. Safety Workgroup” met in the Cleveland High School Library in an effort to push their street safety agenda forward.

‘Drug Take-back Day’ restored in Southeast Portland

After having been suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic – along with the disbanding of the “Crime Prevention Office” by the City of Portland’s “Office of Community & Civic Life” – Portland’s participation in the United States Drug Enforc…

Chewed solar-panel wires set Foster-Powell roof aflame

When the owners of a 1912 home at 3804 S.E. 62nd Avenue, in the Foster-Powell neighborhood installed a 5.55 KW photovoltaic (PV) solar cell array on their roof in 2022, the residents probably looked forward to saving some money on their elect…

‘Learning Gardens Lab’ hosts Brentwood-Darlington ‘Earth Day Fair’

The annual “Earth Day Fair” returned to the Learning Gardens Laboratory, across the street from Lane Middle School, in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood on Saturday, April 22.

Stabbing closes down area near Southeast school

A couple of hours after the students were dismissed for the day at Whitman Elementary School on May 5th, East Precinct officers received a report of a stabbing in the 7500 block of S.E. Flavel Street and responded to investigate.

Wall fire damages Brentwood-Darlington home

A residential fire in an owner-occupied home on Monday evening, May 1, swiftly brought a host of firefighters to 5920 S.E. Henderson Street, at 7:44 p.m.

Suspect arrested in March murder on Powell Boulevard

On the very rainy evening of March 9, East Precinct officers were called to a shooting in a transient camp along S.E. Powell Boulevard near 74th Avenue. Subsequently, Powell was closed to traffic while homicide detectives investigated the hom…

EDITOR: Rose Festival is back, in this ‘city of towns’

Your editor is not a Portland native, although I am now – by choice – a Portlander for life. I grew up in a small town in California, eventually getting college-educated near, and working in, the second largest city in the United States – whi…

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HISTORY: Umatilla Street memories sparked by reader inquiry

Umatilla Street in Sellwood: Where storekeepers were kept busy, the people were friendly, and the ferry boats landed. All of that a very long time ago.

‘Orcas’ exhibit opens at OMSI

Starting on Saturday, May 13th, Southeast’s world-class Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) opened a new exhibition that invites guests to dive into the mysteries of the oceans’ apex predator: Orcas, also known as “killer whales”.

‘Rhododendron Garden’ resumes special events after pandemic

After a three-year pandemic hiatus, the Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden on S.E. 28th Avenue, across from the Reed College campus, was free once again this spring to celebrate long-established special events – such as their two-day Mother’…

Favela Café ‘fosters’ community, celebrates Brazilian culture

On Sunday, May 7th, the sun was shining brightly – a harbinger of the surprisingly summerlike month that was to follow – and Sikender Ashraf decided to walk from the Buckman neighborhood, where he lives, all the way out to the Favela Brazilia…

Portland okays OMSI’s massive Central Eastside Master Plan

It wasn’t exactly child’s play.

Business BRIEFS

Running your own business can bring out the real YOU: Becky Luening, a Woodstock resident well-known for her graphic design and editing service called “Becky Luening Book Arts”, will give a talk at the Association of Home Businesses on “Self-…

Man dies in Foster Road shooting; shooter dead in Clackamas County

Not long after a customer – whom employees described as “a regular”, seen daily – walked into “Fantasyland”, at 5228 S.E. Foster Road, on Sunday morning, April 23, he got into a loud disagreement with another man near the “rear arcades” insid…

EVENTS and Activities in June

JUNE 4

Bee parent company Pamplin Media Group to sell Milwaukie-area headquarters

The Pamplin Media Group, parent company of 24 news sites in Oregon, is selling its headquarters near Milwaukie to Clackamas County.

Merkley says he will oppose debt deal

Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley says that when it comes up in the U.S. Senate, he will oppose legislation that suspends the federal debt ceiling while it cuts some spending and speeds up approval of a controversial pipeline and other fossil-fuel…

Woodstock Farmers Market’s 13th season brings new vendors

The Woodstock Farmers Market’s thirteenth season opens on Sunday, June 4th, with several new vendors, as well as music and children’s activities.

Seeing lots of box elder bugs? Blame the heat, experts say

Chip Bubl has been fielding calls about box elder bugs and stink bugs in Columbia County.

The crime scene in March

At the March 9th murder scene on S.E. Powell Boulevard, a Portland homicide detective stood in heavy rain at the crime scene, amid a web of police crime-scene tape.

Many firefighters respond to flames in wall

Firefighters from far and wide swiftly knocked down a wall fire in this home in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood, on May first.

Confronted, city to speed up park lighting replacement

Apparently, 23 neighborhood and community associations signing and supporting a letter to the Portland City Council expressing indignation about the swift and stealthy removal of lampposts in some Southeast city parks caught the attention of …

Car thief near Oaks Park captured driving north upon Springwater Trail

Since the city installed huge concrete blocks along S.E. Oaks Park Way, from Spokane Street north to the Amusement Park property, it has at least kept trailers and RVs from squatting along the narrow street.

Cleveland High’s Rose Fest Princess unveiled

After the school day was over at Cleveland High School on Thursday, March 23rd, students and staff filed into their large auditorium to learn who would be representing the school as its Princess for the 2023 Portland Rose Festival.

Early morning RV explosion & fire in Woodstock

Before sunrise in Woodstock on the first full day of spring – Tuesday, March 21st – a resident on S.E. 41st Avenue at Ramona Street was awakened at 4:15 a.m. by a very loud explosion. Others in the neighborhood told THE BEE they’d heard up to…

Multnomah County Fair ‘enlarged’ for Memorial Day Weekend at Oaks Park

As you read this, Memorial Day Weekend may still seem a ways off. But, volunteers from the “Friends of Multnomah County Fair” – who present the annual celebration with no financial help from Multnomah County itself – have been busily preparin…

‘Metal Beavers’ and ‘Pigmice’ compete in ‘FIRST Robotics’ games

It was a tough season for the Southeast Portland “FIRST Robotics Competition” (FRC) teams.

Brooklyn shooting leads to Foster-Powell gun arrest

While it’s typically noisy on the around the edge of the Union Pacific Railroad Yard, at least one person heard gunshots near there on Saturday evening, April 8 – in the area where southbound S.E. 22nd Avenue dead-ends into Gladstone Street –…

Free ‘Play Stop’ builds community in Brentwood-Darlington

Getting to know your neighbors can be difficult, but a Brentwood-Darlington mom has found a fun way to connect. She’s using the power of play.

Arrests in February Mt. Scott-Arleta shooting

In the March issue of THE BEE, we reported a February 7 shooting in the Mt. Scott-Arleta neighborhood.

Sellwood resident, former State legislator, Dick Springer dead of heart attack

Richard “Dick” Springer, a longtime Sellwood resident, died suddenly of a heart attack on Easter Sunday, April 9. He was born in 1948, and graduated from Cleveland High School in 1966, going on to attend Princeton University, and then to join…

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