It Took a Pandemic for School Choice to Shine
As the Coronavirus descended last March, we moved the 220 students and staff at MITCH Charter School, the only public charter elementary school in the boundaries of the Tigard-Tualatin School District (TTSD), into full,...
Tigard-Tualatin Schools Re-Examining Role of Police in Schools
The Tigard-Tualatin School Board is re-examining its relationship with school resource officers, following a wide-ranging investigation into the pros and cons of having armed police roaming school halls.
While the board and Tigard-Tualatin School District...
Mayor’s Corner: January 2021
At the Jan. 25 City Council meeting the city council will receive the report on our Community Discussions on Police Use of Force in Tualatin. The purpose of the conversation was to review our police...
Do More With Your Mortgage in 2021
Life has been a little unpredictable over the past year, to say the least. However, one positive thing that came out of 2020 was the state of the housing market. Despite the ongoing pandemic...
Sign Up for 2021 CERT Spring Training!
COVID, COVID, COVID. We can see a light at the end of the tunnel but we aren’t there yet. Thanks to the City of Tualatin and our wonderful CERT Trainers, you can still learn...
Aging in Place: January 2021
Welcome to 2021! We made it to a new year, traveling through months of unknowns and uncertainty, health risks, economic risks, isolation, becoming tech-savvy and even making sure we combed our hair before going...
Options for Medical Fat Reduction
With proper diet, exercise, and the increasingly popular practice of intermittent fasting, a person may hone in closer to their ideal weight. Still, sometimes stubborn fat pockets can resist a person’s best efforts and...
Food & Drink: Aloha Grill
It’s become entirely cliché to say, but… these are unprecedented times. We face a statewide restaurant shutdown due to spiking COVID-19 numbers in Oregon that puts in peril many businesses’ futures, but more so...
Educators Adapt to Teaching in a Pandemic
Nobody could’ve expected the events that ensued this year and the COVID-19 pandemic that took hold of the world. As the landscape forced businesses and individuals to adapt, schools became a point of question....
Living Legends: Larry McClure
Larry McClure is still a small-town boy at heart so he and his wife Ellie hit the jackpot when they decided to settle in Tualatin in May 1972.
Born in Tennessee and living in several...
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STEM Education: Fun for Kids and Good for Tualatin
At Lam Research, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields are at the heart of the technologies we develop, so we know first-hand their...
