Timber News

If it wasn't the weather, it was Forest Grove's new flag. And if it wasn't the Stars and Stripes, it was the swine flu or changes in key community leadership positions.

Pelting rain and high winds sent tree branches tumbling in some areas of western Washington County last weekend, including this residential yard between Rogers Park and 19th Avenue in Old Town Forest Grove.

Mark H. Gift, the 71-year-old man who was Tasered last month by officers who say he tried to run over his son-in-law, is in custody until he can post a $5,000 security deposit.

It started out as a standard cab fare. A trip to the coast with a friend, $250 in cash up front.

Jeffrey Bradford Clausen, a 47-year-old Lake Oswego insurance agent missing for almost a month, was found dead yesterday, an apparent suicide, the Lake Oswego Police Department said today.

Gwen Trice unearthed the little-known story of the Maxville loggers, a group of African Americans from the South who worked in northeast Oregon in the 1920s, for her documentary "The Logger's Daughter," shown recently on Oregon Public Broadcasting's "Oregon Experience." WALLOWA -- Everybody knows loggers shout "Timber!" But African American ...

Between the topic of Michele's posts , the discussion that followed John H's note on manners and now John Q's query about seminar questions , it's a good opportunity to describe an incident I experienced years ago.