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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Bombs over Arbor Lodge
Neighbors’ Spat Escalates
THERE ARE TWO SIDES to every story. In this case—two households and two versions. On a summer evening last June in North Portland, Laurel Wilson and her partner Brittany Clarke threw a backyard party. Next door, William and Denise Zinter twice called the police to report a noise disturbance, kicking off a battle between neighbors […]
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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 […]
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In Other News
HOMELESS CENTER VOTE City council voted 4-0 last Wednesday morning, March 5, to site an access center for the homeless on Block U in Old Town, opposite Union Station. If for some reason the center can’t be developed on Block U, council also voted to keep Block 25 as a fallback option. City Commissioner Erik […]
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IPR REPORT DELAYED The mayor’s office has postponed a council hearing about a controversial report on the Independent Police Review (IPR). The hearing, scheduled for Thursday, February 28, has been postponed until March when it will be turned into a council work session—which also removes the opportunity for public comment on the report. “We’re not […]
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Good-Bye, Felony Flats
Southeast Residents Develop a “No-Tolerance Attitude”
“When I first started coming here, this neighborhood was more or less a meth capital. Methamphetamines were rampant, especially on 65th and Foster. “Right here, you could get meth,” Kenny Sadler said as he straddled his mountain bike and gestured to the intersection a few feet away. “You could get whatever you needed. It was […]
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The House That Wasn’t There
Scientologists Move into SE Neighborhood?
Residents of the Richmond neighborhood in Southeast Portland were relieved in 2006 when a group of well-dressed, clean-cut young people started showing up on weekends to remodel a run-down old house on the corner of SE 48th and Clinton. The single family residential home had been getting nuisance complaints from the city for five years—twice […]