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Trades Lift Minority Groups

Trades Lift Minority Groups
Jun 21, 2022, 4:57 p.m.
Creating Pathways for Success

Creating Pathways for Success
Jun 21, 2022, 4:44 p.m.
Pick It Up, Portland!

Pick It Up, Portland!
Jun 21, 2022, 3:21 p.m.
Educators Making a Difference

Educators Making a Difference
Jun 21, 2022, 3:42 p.m.
Powerful Musical ‘Rent’ Takes Stage

Powerful Musical ‘Rent’ Takes Stage
Jun 13, 2022, 11:19 a.m.

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Sonda Brown, a first-term apprentice electrician, found her way to the construction industry unexpectedly after working a desk job in an office. “After a few years, I grew tired of the monotonous job duties and wanted something different,” she said.

Trades Lift Minority Groups

June 21, 2022 | 4:57 p.m.

Michelle M. Harper

Creating Pathways for Success

June 21, 2022 | 4:44 p.m.

Portland Community College instructor Tom Laxson (center) shows student Kayler Randall (right) one of the jet engines in the college’s Aviation Maintenance Technology Program. Assisting is Archie Vega of Horizon Air Industries.

Training Workers for Aviation

June 21, 2022 | 4:37 p.m.

Emmanuel Aquino (second from right) of Beaumont Middle School in northeast Portland is named Educator of the Year for grades 6-8 in the 2022 OnPoint Community Credit Union Prize for Excellence in Education awards. Also pictured are Jennifer Krebs, OnPoint’s K-5 Educator of the Year honoree; Rob Stuart, the credit union’s president and CEO; and Jesse Bolt, OnPoint’s 9-12 Educator of the Year.

Educators Making a Difference

June 21, 2022 | 3:42 p.m.

Arts & Entertainment

Portland Parks & Recreation presents ‘Summer Free for All,’ a special summer calendar of free events and free lunches to help kids stay active this summer.

Summer for All at Portland Parks

June 21, 2022 | 10:27 a.m.

Opera a la Cart, a mobile performance venue brings live opera directly into community spaces where people gather, like Hoyt Arboretum next door to the Oregon Zoo.

Bringing Opera to Community Spaces

June 21, 2022 | 10:22 a.m.

Multnomah County’s Summer Reading program includes an array of fun, free online events for children, teens and families.

Library Games Make Summer Reading Fun

June 21, 2022 | 10:18 a.m.

Portland Center Stage presents "Rent" the iconic musical about love in various configurations set among artists ravaged by addictions, AIDS and homelessness. Now playing through July 10 on the U.S. Bank Main Stage at the Armory.

Powerful Musical ‘Rent’ Takes Stage

June 13, 2022 | 11:19 a.m.

Metro

Sonda Brown, a first-term apprentice electrician, found her way to the construction industry unexpectedly after working a desk job in an office. “After a few years, I grew tired of the monotonous job duties and wanted something different,” she said.

Trades Lift Minority Groups

June 21, 2022 | 4:57 p.m.

Michelle M. Harper

Creating Pathways for Success

June 21, 2022 | 4:44 p.m.

Emmanuel Aquino (second from right) of Beaumont Middle School in northeast Portland is named Educator of the Year for grades 6-8 in the 2022 OnPoint Community Credit Union Prize for Excellence in Education awards. Also pictured are Jennifer Krebs, OnPoint’s K-5 Educator of the Year honoree; Rob Stuart, the credit union’s president and CEO; and Jesse Bolt, OnPoint’s 9-12 Educator of the Year.

Educators Making a Difference

June 21, 2022 | 3:42 p.m.

Volunteers from Pacific Power pitch in to pick up litter at an earlier city-wide cleanup event sponsored by SOLVE. The group is inviting people to join them for another cleanup for Portland this weekend, June 24 and 25.

Pick It Up, Portland!

June 21, 2022 | 3:21 p.m.

Law & Justice

Tina Kotek, the former Oregon Speaker of the House and State Representative from north Portland is the Democratic Party nominee for governor in the November General Election.

Kotek Faults Opponents on Gun Safety

June 21, 2022 | 10:43 a.m.

Jeffrey Mori draws support from the Vancouver NAACP for his appointment as Vancouver’s next police chief.

Support for Vancouver’s New Police Chief

May 19, 2022 | 11:28 a.m.

Wayne Jones holds his son Donell, while speaking during an interview with The Associated Press about his mother Celestine Chaney, who was killed in Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP photo)

Racism, Conspiracies Fueled Massacre

May 17, 2022 | 10:23 a.m.

Carl Macpherson, the Portland-based executive director of Metropolitan Public Defender, says his firm of 90 public defenders recently stopped taking certain types of new criminal cases for a month because they had so many cases that the attorneys were violating their ethical obligations to clients.

Oregon Public Defender System Sued

May 17, 2022 | 10:20 a.m.

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