Gresham News Archives

A man wanted by police for his alleged involvement in a weekend shooting was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals today.

For years, Oregon's big grocers have wanted to offload the messy collection of bottles and cans returned under the state's storied bottle bill.

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

Gresham redevelopment commissioners approved two reimbursement grants to improve a business and an apartment complex during the commission's Tuesday, June 16, meeting.

Employees and patrons of a Hispanic grocery in Rockwood nabbed an armed gunman who robbed the store, but his accomplice escaped.

Gresham police have arrested three people in connection with a Tuesday morning armed robbery of Southeast Portland grocery store where a shot was fired at an employee.

Gresham city councilors this week will interview eight candidates to find a replacement for a fellow councilor who resigned earlier this month citing work conflicts.

Gresham police are investigating a mid-morning grocery store robbery during which a shot was fired at a supermarket employee.

Persimmon Country Club is offering a day for you and your friends to golf and give a portion of green fees to the Children's Trust Fund of Oregon.

If a lease arrangement comes through, Gresham-area residents will cart their recyclable materials to a single, centralized spot rather than local supermarkets.

A serial bank robber hit the Bank of the West on Northeast Halsey Street the afternoon of June 12.

Legislation that transferred power over car registration fees from voters to county leaders took some East County officials by surprise, but perhaps it shouldn't have.

Hopes to create an ethnic farmers market in Rockwood this summer appear to be on hold, but urban renewal commissioners are still interested in building soccer fields in what's now an expanse of gravel.

The city of Wood Village has hired a consulting firm to explore advantages of an urban renewal district to encompass the former Multnomah Greyhound racetrack site on Halsey Street.

Oregon's state Senate failed to pass a measure Wednesday afternoon in Salem that would have raised the minimum tax corporations pay and put an estimated $261 million into the 2009-11 budget.

Gresham is looking for a new City Council member after Councilor Mike Bennett resigned effective Monday.

A Gresham woman was arrested Thursday night for allegedly running a meth lab at her grandmother's home.

Multnomah County will no longer have to ask its cities and other jurisdictions for permission to raise car registration fees, under a bill approved by the Oregon Legislature.

Kelly Creek Elementary School has been named one of 20 finalists out of 439 entries nationwide in the Walmart "Earth Day, Every Day School Challenge" recognizing earth-friendly efforts in schools.

You can celebrate the start of summer at the Mt. Hood Community College Family Fun Festival, to be held on the Gresham Campus, 26000 S.E. Stark St., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 6. There will be a wide variety of entertaining activities for kids, including a cupcake walk, dinosaur egg hunt, face painting, golf putting game, duck pond and ...

Attendees at the Stand for Children's rally Saturday, May 30, were encouraged to hold up umbrellas to demonstrate support for tapping into the state's rainy-day funds in order to protect school funding during the recession.

A Boring resident will spend 10 years in federal custody for his role in a major drug trafficking ring.

It was supposed to be a training exercise, a trial shift to see if Nico, the Gresham Police Department's senior police dog, could still serve after a potentially career-ending injury two months ago.

Mayor Shane Bemis and the Center for the Arts Foundation president Mike Hallgrimson will dedicate the just completed Gresham Center for the Arts Plaza at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

Want to help East Multnomah County? Consider light rail on Stark Street. guest column By Duke Shepard of Portland, Oregon.

Human error is to blame for a fatal rock-climbing accident in April involving a Gresham police detective and his sister-in-law, according to a state investigation.

The city of Gresham must pay half a million dollars to two men and the family of a third who died when a police officer ran a stop sign nearly three years ago.

A list of General Motors dealerships to close in the wake of the company filing for bankruptcy this week has yet to be released, but at least one Gresham-area dealer is confident in the long-term viability of the GM brand.

A road closure will last through June 19 while work is performed relating to the city of Gresham's Pleasant Valley interceptor sewer project.