Troutdale News

A support group for weight management and healthy lifestyles. For more information, call Edna at 503-666-1091 or visit www.tops.org. American Association of University Women, Gresham branch - 6:30 p.m., Gresham Memorial Chapel and Events Center, 257 S.E. Roberts Ave.

TROUTDALE, Ore. Several lanes will be closed, starting Thursday night, for bridge repairs on Interstate-84 in Troutdale.

Elementary music specialist Anne Lewis includes a lot of motion in her music classes at Bridgeport Elementary School.

One of the cards features Mendive's daughter, Amatha Mendive-Boyle, who was murdered in November 2008.

Seventh-grader Nora Scheiner talks to her math teacher, Chad Van Kleek, and her mother, Barbara, about her performance in math this year.

A 20-year-old Gresham man is in custody in connection with an armed pharmacy robbery Sunday in Troutdale.

A man who broke into an elderly woman's home and was on the verge of sexually assaulting her - until she took matters into her own hands - will spend 16 months in prison.

The pharmacy at Walgreens' Southeast Stark Street store was robbed Sunday morning by a man who appeared fresh from the slopes.

An armed gunman robbed Walgreens in Troutdale, 25699 SE Stark St., this morning and walked away with $4,000 worth of OxyContin.

The Gresham Outlook welcomes calendar notices for weekly public events and support group meetings in East County.

Troutdale Mayor Jim Kight speaks Tuesday, Nov. 3, during the groundbreaking for the future Troutdale Centennial Arch.

The city of Gresham reminds residents to recycle their pumpkins into their yard debris container or in their compost.

In an effort to keep prescription drugs out of the water system, and away from those who want to abuse them, Gresham is hosting a prescription drug collection Saturday, Nov.

Steve Nagy, manager of general aviation for the Port of Portland, maintains offices at Portland International, Hillsboro and Troutdale airports.

Beverly Mathews Simms was asked by Multnomah County Animal Services officials to clean up her breeding facility or risk losing her animals.

It should come as no surprise that Vera Rueck, who celebrates her 95th birthday Nov.

The city has withdrawn from the Multnomah County Tax Supervision and Conservation Commission, joining Fairview and the Centennial School District in opting out of the commission's jurisdiction.

There were 10 Oregon schools on the No Child Left Behind Safety Watch List last year.

Andrew James Webb, who escaped Aug. 19 while being returned to the Yamhill County Jail following a court appearance, was sentenced Monday in Multnomah County Circuit Court to 15 months in prison for assaulting a sheriff's deputy while in custody at the Justice Center in downtown Portland.

Fairview and Troutdale citizens looking for a real-time sense of criminal activity that may be going on around them now have a Web site to clue them in.