Gresham News

POSTED: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM PT BY: Eli Segall Tags: Brian A. Lessler , Gresham , Gresham Station Townhomes Owners' Association , Persimmon Development Group Inc.

Mel Holst's Christmas star tradition is continuing because of caring neighbors. The star on Gresham Butte didn't start out as a holiday landmark.

The windshield of a 1998 Ford Taurus driven by 52-year-old Cecilio Venegas of Gresham was smashed Sunday afternoon after the car struck three children as they crossed the Tualatin Valley Highway at 178th Avenue in Aloha.

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.

On Sunday mornings you can find Mathew Williams at Highland Christian Center. The church moved to its current location on Northeast 76th and Glisan Street in 2005 after outgrowing its former building at Northeast 18th and Alberta Street.

Two people have been arrested in Gresham and accused of forging $100 bills, police said Tuesday.

A pedestrian was left with a broken arm Sunday after slick roads led to a driver losing control of his pick-up truck, said Sgt.

A hit man who was carrying out orders of a meth dealer when he shot to death two rival drug dealers has been sentenced to life in prison MCSO Gerado Vazquez Villagomez .

Gresham Ford, the 2009 recipient of the Oregon Bankers Association's "Community Applause Award," will donate its $1,000 prize to Snow-CAP Community Charities.

Multnomah County Commissioners voted Thursday to recommend that 1,000 acres of land west of the Sandy River be designated as urban reserves.

Rep. Nick Kahl, D-Rockwood, has announced he will run for a second two-year term in the Oregon House of Representatives.

Shawn Hess attaches solar panels to frames at Gresham's wastewater treatment plant.

In response to the area's bone-chilling temperatures and biting wind, a local church is opening its doors as a warming shelter for the homeless.

Drivers and pedestrians make their way north on 181st Avenue during the snowstorm in December 2008.

An international community service group that participates in a variety of projects.

A Gresham man told police he was protecting himself and his family when he shot a neighbor who'd broken down his front door on Thanksgiving.

Monday was a mad day at Gresham's Sam Barlow High. In what police describe as one teen's test of MySpace monitoring, two former students used their MySpace accounts to make comments that had police swarming the school and landed both in jail.

A six-year-old boy and three other people were injured in a three-vehicle, hit-and-run crash this afternoon in Gresham, police said.

A person who kicked down an apartment door was shot and injured Thursday night, Gresham police said.

In 2002, Gresham pushed hard to bring the 1,200-acre Springwater area southeast of the city inside the urban growth boundary.