My Portland

Portland Public Schools’ high schools are in for a major redesign, a shakeup district leaders say will go a long way toward increasing equity, student engagement and graduation rates while reducing the achievement gap. Superintendent Carole Smith was set to announce … Under the proposal, six or seven large community high schools, serving between 1100 to 1400 students (with the exact number to be decided upon this October), would function as neighborhood schools. …

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Orkney continued to sell his surplus goods, first out of a tent, and later from a permanent location in a building on Vancouver Avenue in north Portland. By 1956 this store had grown to become a destination for bargain hunters looking …

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Portland is a very neighborhood oriented city, which gives it a unique feel, but also leads to a bit of a disconnect I think: it seems like parents in NE don’t want to send their kids to a school in SW, even though it isn’t all that far …

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… Neighborhood Town Hall on the Economic Crisis Tuesday, June 30, 7 pm - 8:30 pm. Doors open at 6:30 for refreshments and to browse tables on resources and organizing projects. St. Charles Church, 5310 NE 42nd Ave., Portland.

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Splitting it up among two or three not only creates money-losing arenas, but deprives the arena neighborhood of the critical mass of foot traffic that can turn it into something worthwhile. …. But the Twin Cities are larger than Denver- Aurora, Pittsburgh, Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, Sacramento, San Diego, St. Louis, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Baltimore-Towson, and we got a larger population living outside the region w/o access to sports. (N and S Dakota, Iowa, etc) …

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We demand that the Portsmouth/North Portland neighborhoods be treated with the same RESPECT and DUE PROCESS accorded the Buckman neighborhood in the disposition of the public Washington/Monroe School property which resulted in a $600000 …

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SEATTLE — A Seattle neighborhood activist is trying to put a damper on the city’s biggest Fourth of July fireworks show. Benjamin Schroeter is seeking a King County Superior Court order to revoke a permit for the pyrotechnics at Gas…

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He even recounts how the cramped Baltimore neighborhood where Memorial Stadium was razed was relieved to have it gone. But Memorial Stadium was not the unique work of architecture that Memorial Coliseum is. And Baltimore is not Portland …

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At Street Roots in Portland, Oregon, we have around 80 vendors selling the newspaper throughout the city. Vendors typically sell the newspaper at busy intersections downtown and at lively neighborhood grocery stores, libraries, …

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We went for a walk in a quiet, carless Northeast Portland neighborhood, gradeschooler girl skipping a little ahead, preschooler boy bobbing a thin plastic basketball as he walked alongside me. There were no cars, barely any bikes; …

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