Gresham News

GRESHAM, Ore. -- A new Walmart store is scheduled to open in Gresham this summer and the company announced it will hire about 80 people to work there.

The Gresham Police Special Enforcement Team arrested two heroin dealers Thursday, May 24, through leads from an earlier arrest of a heroin user.

Recent changes in the law have given Oregon families more educational options for their students and one alternative many are exploring is Oregon Connections Academy, the largest online public charter school in the state.

The 42,000 square foot building on 182nd Avenue and Powell Boulevard was the former home of Kroger-owned QFC and will offer groceries, an in-store pharmacy, health and beauty, pet and household supplies.

May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. Original negative is 9x9 black/white aerial.

Scott Schaeffer and Jim Stanley stand on a part of their nursery farm they sold to the East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District, which plans to turn the acreage into an incubator for would-be farmers.

A support group for weight management and healthy lifestyles. For more information, call Edna at 503-666-1091 or visit tops.org. Take Off Pounds Sensibly - 6 p.m., Parklane Christian Reformed Church, 16001 S.E. Main St.

Several explosive devices composed of plastic bottles containing unknown substances detonated in a recycling bin outside of Room AC1006 at Mt.

Jason McGowan, Gresham fire battalion chief, said firefighters responded to the emergency call at 3:12 p.m. on Monday at Dea's In and Out at 755 NE Burnside Rd .

A man who was working on a restaurant remodel in Gresham ended up badly burned in a fire.

Stephanie Kuntupis was rushed to the hospital in June 2007 unconscious with a head injury.

Gresham police have a suspect in the theft of 25 envelopes of school portrait money that were stolen from Kelly Creek Elementary School while student pictures were being taken in the gym Tuesday, May 1. School pictures on Tuesday functioned the way they traditionally have: The photographer, of Dorian Studio in Portland, took the children's ... (more)

Learn more about solar energy during a free Solar Gresham workshop with city of Gresham staff from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at the Gresham Library, 385 N.W. Miller Ave.

Gresham resident Marvin Neil Ogle, a civic activist, volunteer and a key advocate for Mt.

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