Update on Jessi Thorne
To Our Readers: Here is the latest news about Jessi Thorne. It’s not great at the moment, but I remain confident that good people will do the right thing and she will ultimately get...
Road to Responsibility
Our job as parents, I believe, is not to do things for our children, but to build up strengths in them—strengths that will help them deal with the inevitable roadblocks and troubles life will...
How High’s the Water, Mama?
Some 15,000 years ago, during the warming of the last ice age, an ice dam broke in Montana sending huge amounts of rushing water down to the Willamette Valley, and carrying with it topsoil...
February 2016
Tualatin’s State of the City was last Wednesday and it was quite an event. For starters, it was way more crowded than in years past. It was not populated just by curious citizens, but...
Greenway Trail
The new segment of the Tualatin River Greenway opens February 23! Save the date for the grand opening ceremony and ribbon cutting on April 9, 2016 from 1:00 to 1:30 pm on Barngrover Way...
Free Gardening
Last year the local non-profit, Neighbors Nourishing Communities (NNC), organized home gardeners and grew over 2,000 pounds of produce for struggling families in our community. This helped families obtain wonderfully nutritious produce. With your...
While serving as Army sniper, Tualatin Soldier had leg amputated from ambush in Afghanistan....
Positive thinking and enthusiasm have played a big role in molding recent Tualatin resident Joel Dulashanti’ s life. Critically wounded in an ambush in Afghanistan in 2007, he could have taken a medical discharge...
Support Your Favorite Local Restaurants
Believe it or not, some of the strongest feedback we've ever received on our Tualatin Life Facebook page is when people vent their frustrations about the lack of choices for non-chain, local eateries.
Tualatin Marine, Corporal Barton
In 1968, America believed that we would easily win the Vietnam war. However, early that year, the Vietnamese announced a seven-day cease-fire for the end of January to celebrate Tet, the Vietnamese New Year....
Even Tualatin’s Fashions Evolved…
With all the interest in period dramas like Downtown Abbey, it’s fun to look back at how our community used to dress. Starting with underwear, a subject not suitable for discussion a hundred years...























