http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128327417062057600 2010-08-31 00:00:00 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128327417062057600 en-us A commercial truck driver was cited by Oregon State Police for careless driving after a five-vehicle crash that seriously injured a woman Tuesday morning on Highway 224 near Milwaukie. State police said Jerome Heidt, 64, from Moxee, Wash., was driving east on Highway 224 in a semitrailer at about ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128327841071549000 2010-09-01 00:00:00 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128327841071549000 en-us An Oregon City-born leader has catapulted to one of the highest positions in his field, as a top advisor in the federal agency that focuses on health for American Indians. Geoff Roth, a graduate of Oregon City High School in 1994, was appointed last month as the senior advisor to the director of ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128327752326520300 2010-09-01 00:00:00 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128327752326520300 en-us What was just two years ago a few bare acres of land is now a mini neighborhood of 12 houses set aside for individuals and families with incomes below 80 percent of Clackamas County's median income. The transformation was not an easy one for Milwaukie-based Clackamas Community Land Trust, which ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128318644951970100 2010-08-30 00:00:00 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128318644951970100 en-us Milwaukie police said Monday that they did not suspect foul play in the death of a 26-year-old man whose body was found early in the morning in the northbound lanes of McLoughlin Boulevard. Police said the body of Steven Hale Smith was found by a passerby at about 2:04 a.m., Aug. 30, in the lanes ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269314289352200 2010-08-24 16:39:02 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269314289352200 en-us Dwight I. Baker Nov. 23, 1917- Aug. 11, 2010 Dwight I. Baker passed away peacefully on Aug. 11, at age 92. He was born in Grass Valley in Nov. 23, 1917. At age 15, he enrolled at OSU on a football scholarship and studied mechanical engineering. He went on to a prestigious engineering career ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269300652493800 2010-08-24 16:36:46 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269300652493800 en-us Milwaukie Thursday, Aug. 12 6:55 a.m. – Someone broke the window out of a car parked along the 11800 block of SE 48th Avenue overnight. 3:59 p.m. – Milwaukie police assisted the Clackamas County Marine Patrol on pulling out a boat stuck on the rocks in the Willamette ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269270648308000 2010-08-24 00:00:00 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269270648308000 en-us On Monday at approximately 6:30 p.m., Milwaukie residents Emily Kauts and her 4-year-old daughter Bella fell out of their swift moving raft into the Clackamas River. They had been floating along in a six-foot Sevylor raft in the river near Cross Park in Gladstone. Lisa Pierce, a friend of ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269224748854800 2010-08-24 16:24:07 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269224748854800 en-us After noticing dense smoke chugging from a two-story home located in a residential neighborhood of Oak Grove, three Milwaukie teens saved a senior citizen from the rapidly advancing flames. Riding his skateboard to the house on Sunday evening, Ryan VanVactor, 14, soon to be a freshman at Milwaukie ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269061203297200 2010-08-24 00:00:00 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269061203297200 en-us Homeowners in the Portland suburbs are being smacked with foreclosure notices at a greater rate than their urban and rural counterparts, with several north Clackamas communities suffering some of the biggest increases in the metro area. The Oregon City area saw a 17 percent jump in foreclosures ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269100089743800 2010-08-24 16:03:20 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128269100089743800 en-us Seventy-five-year-old Clackamas resident Bruce Kayser's 66-acre plot at the corner of Hemrick and Foster roads has been in his family all his life; over the years they've harvested hops and grazed land for cattle. But Kayser expects that this season's crop of winter wheat will be one of the last ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128268996272054600 2010-08-24 15:46:02 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128268996272054600 en-us No one at Happy Valley's Premier Sport & Fitness saw anything amiss on that fateful Wednesday last month. Laura Rollins, a 44-year-old construction company bookkeeper, had just completed the stretches that had preceded the cardio and weight training that she had done two or three times a week ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128268969955628400 2010-08-24 15:41:39 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128268969955628400 en-us Milwaukie provided a venue for serious discussions of the roller coaster, mostly headed down toward the red, that's been the story of funding for schools and other social services in Oregon. The area's elected leaders had expected simply to celebrate their victory in saving thousands of teaching ... http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128268948639855700 2010-08-24 15:38:06 http://www.oregoncitynewsonline.com/news/story.php?story_id=128268948639855700 en-us Time is running out for the more than 2,700 members of Oregon's 41st Infantry Brigade who might want unemployment benefits this summer. Thousands kicked off the summer by attending the Yellow Ribbon Career and Benefit Fair at Clackamas Community College, but the dog days of August mark their 90-day ...