How to help your child survive (and thrive) uncertain times
Parenting is a task that is already fraught with a seemingly endless amount of uncertainty. Will my child get picked for the team? Will they be okay on the bus? What if they don’t...
Nine Lives and Counting…
Eight cats and kittens are living in safe, healthy, loving homes today thanks to a woman who alerted Tualatin resident Jennifer Bosket that about 16 to 18 felines were living around a manufactured home...
County ties Basalt Creek Urban Renewal to Parkway Extension project
Tualatin City Councilors asked to support parkway, bridge project over objections
A proposed urban renewal district in Basalt Creek and Tualatin’s Southwest Industrial area is now tied to a planned road and bridge extension across...
Tualatin football will be led by talented skill players
Tualatin High School enters the 2021 prep football season as one of the top teams in class 6A, despite playing in the perennially challenging Three Rivers League.
The Timberwolves finished third in last year’s shortened...
New law extends COVID tax credit for employers
Through new laws passed by Congress and the quick action on the part of Kate Johnson, a local business owner, thousands of businesses in Oregon are about to get the lifeline they need to...
Tualatin City Council moves forward with term limits measure
The Tualatin City Council has moved forward with plans to place a measure aimed at expanding the city’s term limits for elected officials on the ballot for the May 17, 2022, special election.
The council...
Council approves Herman Road improvements
It may have stopped generating tax increment financing revenue 11 years ago, but the Leveton Urban Renewal District is still producing improvements for the city of Tualatin.
Established in 1985, Leveton is a 382-acre urban...
From School Lunches to Baseball Games – Angel Dads provide Father Figures
Men sometimes get a bad rap in today’s society as parental figures.
Tualatin resident Casey Wood says that’s because many of them do, in fact, come by that reputation the old fashioned way: they earn...
Aging in Place: September 2021
Remember this image from a column a year+ ago when masks were mandatory? Then, for a month or so this summer after 15 months of wearing masks, we took them off. We could see...
Talking Trash in Tualatin
Be part of the solution, not the pollution!
Thirty-two community members volunteered in our Do It Yourself program to pick up litter. Armed with gloves, litter grabbers, and plastic bags, these families, couples, and individuals...