Corbett News

Today is Terrific Tuesdays at the Salem Public Library. This week's event features cartooning by local cartoonist Jack Corbett.

Along with the long hours of daylight and the presence of abundant sunshine, there are at least two other surefire signs that summer officially has arrived in East Multnomah County: the faint smell of smoke hanging in the air and the pained whimpers of pets whose ears are bombarded by the zips, sizzles and pops coming from Fourth of July fireworks.

Mitchell Busk of Corbett gets his money worthy on the bungee tramp at Skibowl. The Basenji caught my eye, which turned out to be my ticket to photographing some boys at Skibowl East as they hopped from ride to ride having fun at Mt.

In 1971 the short science fiction novel "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. Le Guin was published.

I'm stopping briefly during a heavy day of interviews to hit you with some weekend event ideas.

A man who was a witness in the case against a woman accused of killing and dismembering her husband shot and killed himself last week, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office.

The nationwide switch to digital television on Friday, June 12, is quickly approaching, and residents will need converter boxes or cable television in order to keep watching television.

The Viewpoint Inn is now famous worldwide, thanks to the Prom Scene in the hit movie, "Twilight." Co-Owner Jeff Thompson says the producers of the Twilight series, "fell in love" with the quaint Inn overlooking the Columbia Gorge, and since it's scene stealing premiere in Twilight, hundreds of tourists have flocked to the Inn to recreate the magic.

A Multnomah County election official drew the ace of clubs, giving Todd Mickalson the position 4 seat on the Corbett School Board.

One close race for an East County school board seat is over, and another is tied and heading for a recount Tuesday, June 9. Gresham-Barlow Dan Chriestenson has narrowly defeated John Eddy Hall for position 7, at large, on the Gresham-Barlow School District board in the May 19 special election.

8:33 a.m. - Eric L. Patterson, 28, was arrested on a Clackamas County warrant and also charged with robbery after he tried to steal a woman's purse near the intersection of SE Main Street and SE Milport Road.

Corbett Charter School, a new school in the Corbett School District that will house grades kindergarten through 12th, will have its second lottery drawing, a wait-list lottery, at 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, for the 2009-10 school year.

Thirty-five years ago, a vacancy opened up on the Multnomah County Commission when Don Clark, then a commissioner, was elected chairman of the commission.

A former editor of Lewis & Clark Law School's Law Review is expected to plead guilty next week in Marion County to charges that he showed pornographic material to an autistic 13-year-old boy who attended a computer camp last summer.

Bob McIlhattan, right, will sell pottery at the Columbia Gorge Art Festival in Corbett on Saturday and Sunday, May 16-17. He and Ron Linn, left, specialize in wood-fired pottery.

The Metro Multifamily Housing Association is hosting the 23rd annual Multifamily Charity Tournament on Thursday, July 23, with the goal of raising money for low-income housing charities.

While listening to hours of testimony that revealed grim, often grisly, details of Gerald Stomps' alleged murder, family members and friends offered a subtle but unmistakable gesture of respect to the Corbett man's memory last week at the Multnomah County Courthouse.

Rescue workers in Corbett said Monday afternoon that a man was trapped under a burning lawnmower.

The Corbett School District, which has repeatedly been lauded on the national and state level for its academic excellence, features two contested school board seats in the May 19 election.

Associated Press A May 8, 2009 A PORTLAND, Ore. -- Blood on a gun and part of a jaw bone are among the evidence prosecutors are offering in their case against a Corbett woman accused of killing and dismembering her husband then burning and hiding his corpse.