When an animal dies in a renter’s wall, the landlord tears down the wall and drives off.
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Food News
Two new Northeast Portland restaurants and a burgeoning brewery arrive on the scene.
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Men at Work
Day Labor Site Organizers Defend Charges of Failure
Portland’s day labor site clarifies its role after some workers refuse to use the center.
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Send in the Clowns!
Last Thursday Aims to Go Car Free
Neighbors take action to get cars off NE Alberta for Last Thursday.
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In the Shadows
Firefighting
Saving lives—and golfing—with the firefighters at Station 28.
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Raise the Roofline
High-Density Condo Development Tests Height (and Neighbors’) Limits
High-density condo plans in historic Northeast neighborhood spark complaints.
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Streetwalker Holiday
Neighbors Note Prostitution Spike Along 82nd
RECENTLY, neighbors in the Montavilla neighborhood have noticed a sharp increase in the number of sex workers along 82nd Avenue between SE Powell and NE Sandy. Most residents attribute the influx to one thing: the end of Portland’s Prostitute-Free Zones (PFZs). Together with Drug-Free Zones (DFZs), the “free zones” gave police the authority to “exclude” […]
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Teed Off
NE Neighbors Battle Golf Course Rezoning
AFTER WEEKS of contentious testimony from area residents, Bureau of Development Services (BDS) Hearings Officer Gregory Frank is in the last phase of making his recommendation to city hall over controversial plans to switch the zoning designation of an 80-year-old golf course in Northeast Portland. The owners of Colwood National Golf Course—which is currently designated […]
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Dumping Ground
NE Neighborhood Becomes Scrap Car Lot
NEIGHBORS IN NORTHEAST PORTLAND are growing frustrated with a scrap salvage firm, calling itself All Service Towing, which has allegedly been parking dilapidated vehicles on their streets. The problem, which centers on All Service Towing’s grassy lot at 6034 NE Holladay, first started last July, says Bob Richardson, a software developer who lives around the […]
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A Trail of Tears
NE Commuters Want a Safer Route to Work
EMPLOYEES AT a NE Columbia music distribution center are demanding safety improvements on the trail they use to walk from the bus stop to their work. Two years ago, CD Baby Human Resources Director Craig Hennecke bought yearly TriMet bus passes for all the company’s 100 employees, in an environmentally friendly effort to discourage them […]
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Bagging the Burnside Booster
Shoplifted Boutiques Fight Back
A GROUP of boutique shop owners on East Burnside have found a creative new way to fight back against a recurrent shoplifter: crafting their own wanted poster. The allegedly light-fingered young woman first struck Lille Boutique last October, stealing $300 worth of designer underwear. The woman, in her mid-20s and dressed in brown overalls, was […]