Lents News

Willamette Pedestrian Coalition is pulling together a "safety awareness action" at 5 pm today at the site where two young Portland women were struck last week in a marked crosswalk on SE Foster.

The leaf depots will be back. In an about-face on a cost-cutting decision to kill the city-sponsored leaf drop-offs , City Hall has reinstated them, although with fewer locations and weekends.

Join the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Oregon Department of Transportation , Trimet and elected officials on a twilight bike ride along ODOTa s new & improved I-205 path.

Police arrested a man accused of stealing marijuana from a Damascus barn and shooting at the resident when he tried to stop the burglar.

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PORTLAND, Ore. - On Monday the city of Portland transformed Stark and Oak streets in downtown.

A 25-year-old man was jailed after allegedly spraying a man in the face with pepper spray and stealing his laptop Sept.

At the same time, a section of the newly-rebuilt I-205 bike path will be open, from the Springwater Corridor to the north .

The Green Line opening on Saturday signals growth and a new step in the evolution of the MAX system.

The City Council unanimously adopted a report today that will serve as the big-picture reference guide for an expanded Portland streetcar system.

Roger Aldrich waters his plot at Gabriel Community Garden in Southwest Portland, which includes a half-ton of peppers and tomatoes hanging from an overhead structure.

Folksinger Woody Guthrie, shown here in a photo taken by Robin Carson, left his mark on Portland.

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POSTED: Monday, August 10, 2009 at 04:21 PM CDT BY: Tyler Graf Tags: affordable housing , Lents , Turtle Island Development Dan Carter/DJC David Hyde, the land use chairman for the Lents Neighborhood Association, says the neighborhood is flush with affordable housing and needs new economic development instead.

After a public flogging at the hands of Lents residents opposed to a minor league baseball stadium in their neighborhood, Beavers owner Merritt Paulson took his baseball team went to Beaverton.

An attempted theft at the Lents Fred Meyer, near SE 82nd Ave. and Foster, ended with suspects opening fire in the store, according to police.

After violating her probation yet again, famed rabbit hoarder Miriam Sakewitz will face 90 days in jail and mental evaluation.

Tuesday morning several hundred extra special politicians, journalists, transit nerds and TriMet staffers got a sneak peek at a transit project thirty years in the making: finally, finally, the MAX made its first trip out to the deep southeast nether regions of Lents and Clackamas.

As a board member of the Goose Hollow Foothills League, someone concerned about changes to PGE Park, and while watching the discussions in Lents as they analyze a possible baseball stadium, I thought Lents folks might appreciate hearing from Goose Hollow folks.

Kay Barna is downsizing her collectibles store in Lents but hopes plans for a new baseball stadium can revitalize the area.