Tualatin Life

In my personal book of the Laws of the Universe, looking pretty shouldn’t mean silently suffering in the cold. There just isn’t any good reason for it. The proof for my irrefutable doctrine? As...

My partner heard a story on the radio about a robotics team at UC Berkeley that tried to develop a robot that could fold laundry. For me, folding laundry is monotonous and I could...

“The Willamette River is not an homogenous pool of unchanging water,” explained Kim Anderson, director of OSU’s Food Safety and Environmental Stewardship Program. “Its chemistry changes in pulses, currents and seasonal differences that can...

As most of you who have been following this story know, Jessi Thorne is in the fight of her life, trying to get the funding she needs to remove a pineal cyst in her...

With all of the new chain restaurants coming to town, I thought I’d dedicate a sizable amount of space to feature some of our non-chain restaurants on page 3. When I spent some time...

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. ...

Last month, we featured a story about Jessi Thorne and her fight to obtain a potentially life-saving brain surgery. The response from Tualatin Life Readers has been overwhelming, but there’s still more work to do. Jessi checks in with an update: Full...

Red Robin is set to Open This Week in the Nyberg Rivers Shopping Center, near Cabela’s. While many have voiced concerns about the proximity of other Red Robin locations, a CenterCal (Property Manager) representative...

While the Tualatin City Council Term Limit Initiative qualified for the ballot, voters must wait a full year before they can vote on it. Mae Heide, Chief Petitioner, was notified November 2nd by the City...

Over the many decades that have elapsed since Tualatin’s beginning in 1887, many entrepreneurs made their living selling goods and services in the Tualatin area. Pictured are some of those businesses. In 1879 George Saum...