Tualatin Purple Heart recipient shot down on an Army Birddog flight in Vietnam while...
Army Chemical Staff Specialist, Sargent Herbert Smith, and his wife Beverley just loved military life. He initially joined the Coast Guard in 1952, serving three years. He was a civilian for nine months before...
Tualatin man believed events in his first Army Ranger Vietnam Long Range Reconnaissance Mission...
You just never know! Bill Manderfeld moved down the street from me in 1978. His oldest daughter, Keri, quickly became best friends with my oldest daughter Janet. I found that he also worked for...
Jessi’s Story
I will try to make this short and sweet. For those of you that don’t know me, my name is Jessi Thorne. I’m a 25-year-old mother who needs a lifesaving brain surgery that my...
Tualatin Resident Finalist in National Songwriting Competition
Tualatin resident Nate Botsford was selected as one of top two finalists in a national songwriting competition and traveled to NYC last week for a mentoring session with recording artist Ingrid Michaelson. Nate is...
November 2015 Blog
I receive a lot of submissions each month of stories that ask for help in one way or another. I feel that I must be very selective as to which ones I run because...
1851 Tualatin Oregon Trail Pioneers
John and Catherine Hedges arrived in Oregon in 1851, after a harrowing trek across the mountains and plains. After two years’ employment as on-site managers of an Oregon City boarding house, they filed a...
Regatta Doubles in Size
The Pumpkin Regatta has always been popular, with a sort of cult following, but this year it just exploded. We estimated the crowd to have been between 15,000 -18,000. That would be about double...
Veteran’s Corner
You just never know! Bill Manderfeld moved down the street from me in 1978. His oldest daughter, Keri, quickly became best friends with my oldest daughter Janet. I found that he also worked for IRS. Bill had served...
Take the Hassles out of Homework!
Now that we are into the swing of the new school year, it’s back to Homework Time for the kids. But homework can be as much work for parents as it is for children!
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I-5 Connection Chorus Christmas Concert
The I-5 Connection Community Chorus is holding a holiday concert at 3 pm on Saturday, December 5, 2015, at the Meridian United Church of Christ (Frog Pond), 6750 Boeckman Road in Wilsonville.
Director Jocelyn Higgins...