Sherwood News

Get up close and personal with an alpaca this weekend at the Alpaca Open Barn, co-hosted by Easy Go Farm of HIllsboro and Alpacas of Oregon at their Sherwood location.

Happy Friday, Sherwood residents! Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend, despite the gloomy weather ahead.

The Tigard-Tualatin School District is accepting applications from out-of-district students for its dual-language Spanish immersion programs at Metzger and Bridgeport elementary schools.

Since a great community links its businesses, residents, government and schools in common interests and superior goals, the Sherwood Chamber of Commerce is looking for those individuals and groups who have make up the Best of Sherwood 2013.

Fire crews received dozens of calls for service in the Sherwood area within an hour Wednesday afternoon for electrical problems, according to Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue .

SHERWOOD, Ore. Police are looking for a person of interest after someone found a hidden camera in a public bathroom at a Sherwood Starbucks earlier this month.

Beacon Hill Estate sits amid bucolic green fields about midway between Yamhill and Newberg, with a nearly square, gently southern-sloping vineyard that's surrounded on three sides by trees.

Next year, Sherwood, Ore. students will spend three fewer days in class, pay more for high school sports and no longer have specialists teaching technology in elementary school labs.

Next year, Sherwood students will spend three fewer days in class, pay more for high school sports and no longer have specialists teaching technology in elementary school labs.

The district passed an ordinance in 2001 declaring it must hold a vote before using the Willamette River as a water source, but the district's board of commissioners will consider repealing that ordinance at Wednesday's meeting.

Sherwood students will spend three fewer days in school, but classroom teacher positions will not be cut, under the Sherwood School District's proposed budget for next year .

After ongoing complaints about parking in neighborhoods around Sherwood High School and Snyder Park, the city is looking into forming permit-only residential parking districts.

By Ray Pitz, Sherwood Gazette    SHERWOOD - After months of speculation as to the identity of Sherwood's next  big-box store, the wait is over.

Nicole Wells works in a community garden at the Sherwood Presbyterian Church in Sherwood, Ore Women have another reason to exercise: It may help prevent kidney stones.

In the months ahead, developers will break ground on two projects totaling approximately 490,000 square feet.

It's been a good week in the world of running. I got to go to the RRCA National Convention and got all kinds of great ideas and met all kinds of great people.

Walmart and Gramor Development officials announced Monday plans to build a 150,000-square-foot store at the corner of Tualatin-Sherwood Road and Langer Farms Parkway.

Paul Brewer of Colliers International represented the tenant; Tony Reser , Tom Talbot and Scott Murphy of Kidder Mathews represented the property.

While rummaging through boxes of his dead father's belongings, Sherwood attorney Randy Harvey stumbled on the beginnings of a handwritten novel.

Whether you choose a medieval fair in Forest Grove, a 5K Sherwood-based benefit run for clean water in Zambia or a stage production in Beaverton, Tigard or Tualatin, Washington County Weekend is dedicated to giving you great ideas for activities to kick-start your spring weekend.