Boring News

The Estacada Area Arts Commission meets tonight at City Hall, 475 S.E. Main St. The meeting will be from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.; the public is always welcome.

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The Spiral Gallery's monthly First Friday, from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 1, will showcase local student artists of all ages in the gallery's annual Student Art Show.

Lesa Ann Clark, 46, of Boring died Wednesday, Dec. 30, from injuries related to a single-vehicle crash earlier this month, according to the Multnomah County Sherriff's Office.

A 46-year-old woman pulled from a single-vehicle wreck in Gresham earlier this month died today as a result of her injuries, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office reported.

A man on four prescription medications drove so erratically, he swerved onto a sidewalk, drove over traffic cones and barrels in a construction zone and veered into a ditch before stopping for police.

Metro and its three counties find themselves at a stalemate over what areas to set aside for long-range development, putting an unprecedented attempt to find regional land-use happiness in jeopardy.

Oregon State Police troopers are investigating a two-vehicle head-on crash involving a wrong way driver Friday afternoon on a stretch of Highway 26 in the Boring area.

A 53-year-old man from Boring who died Friday afternoon in a head-on collision on Highway 26 might have been having a medical emergency just before the crash.

Portland water inspector Sarah Stinson is careful not to touch the lip of the jar holding the water that goes back to the lab that checks whether Portland water is safe to drink.

People who donate toys or money to the Boring Fire District's Christmas basket program can receive a special dinner at Marli's Restaurant at Mountainview Golf Course, 27195 S.E. Kelso Road.

Dave Hazlewood, left, owner of Olcott's Christmas Trees, helps Wolfgang Verhelst carry a fresh-cut Christmas tree to his car in November 2008.

TimeStream Software, along with River City Bicycles, announces the new "Rubber to the Road" Notescast for the iPod Classic, iPod Video and iPod nano.

Larry Gyure, superintendent of the Estacada Cemetery District, set aside space in the shade of 150-foot Douglas firs for 16 graves at George Pioneer Cemetery.

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

Thursday morning finds a group of veterans called the Hi-flyers gathered around a long table in the dining room of A wing at the Oregon Veterans Home in The Dalles.

In the last 30 years, there has never been recorded sitings of salmon through this small creek in Boring, Oregon that measures 4' wide and 1 1/2' deep at it's fullest.

Speaking to the Boring CPO last week, County Commissioner Lynn Peterson praised the new format of five commissioners instead of the three-person format that had them handcuffed for years.

A Marion County SWAT team member talks with a volunteer at an ODOT conference in Seaside Tuesday.

Today, I'm all about plants. Unusual, huh? Actually, I'm kinda, sorta looking forward to a little down time from the garden.