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{ Monthly Archives } November 2009

Portland looking for better emergency notification system after E. coli scare

City officials are looking at technology that can contact residents on cell phones and via e-mail and social networking sites such as Twitter, as well as land lines.

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Answers to your questions about the E. coli water scare

Some 2,000 concerned customers also dialed the Portland Water Bureau’s call center Saturday night.

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Portland flip-flops, allows desk duty for officer in beanbag shooting

As a result of the decision to return Officer Christopher Humphreys to work, the Portland Police Association said it will not release the results of a no-confidence vote taken against Commissioner Dan Saltzman and Chief Rosie Sizer.

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Bunco! For 53 years, simple dice game keeps Portland friends together

The game, started as a way to take a break from husbands and kids, became an anchor in celebration and sadness.

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Teens get other teens to listen up on HIV

Cascade AIDS , Outside In and the African American AIDS Action Awareness Alliance jointly received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services aimed at technology-based HIV prevention education for at-risk minority youths.

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Civil War can engender family feuds; just ask the Widmers

The winner on Thursday night goes to the Rose Bowl. Thus, even people who wouldn’t ordinarily give a hoot about the Oregon version of the Civil War will tune in at kickoff.

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Jeff Grayson, investment manager, dies at age 67

Grayson co-founded Capital Consultants and was a successful fund-raiser for charities, but he pleaded guilty to mail fraud counts in 2002.

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New Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard brings change for Postal Service, too

With 39th Avenue now officially renamed, postal workers are seeing many variations of the new name on mail: from just plain “Cesar Chavez” to “Csr Chavz.”

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Portland city archives on the move to new home

On Monday, the archives closed to the public for six months. By May 1, city officials and a contractor will have moved 30,000 boxes, maps, buttons from Fire Bureau dress uniforms and at least one beer bottle to a sparkling new home of more than 25,000 square feet at Portland State University, right on the trolley line.

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New PSU certificate program trains green-collar professionals

Portland State University is offering a new certificate for professionals who work in sustainable building, consulting and the green marketplace.

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