http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806400514804900 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806400514804900 en-us Federal investigators are looking for two suspects in an Internet fraud case by posting their images on a new digital billboard stationed along Highway 26 near Southwest 185th Avenue. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Rick Devan ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806385087621300 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806385087621300 en-us More than 100 people packed the Forest Grove Community Center on Saturday morning for a crash course on municipal finance, which included reports from the police and fire chiefs, a slew of slides and even a peek at the mayor’s tax bill. This year's annual town meeting was titled “Show ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806770223688600 2012-01-31 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806770223688600 en-us Beaverton Democrat Suzanne Bonamici is headed to Congress after taking a commanding lead in the 1st Congressional District special election. About 50 percent of the district’s registered voters cast ballots, according to the Oregon secretary of state’s office. She defeated Republican ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806436002337000 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806436002337000 en-us From the street, Wanda Bailie’s Cornelius home doesn't look much different from her neighbors on Cherry Street. But as soon as visitors enter the ranch-style home, they’re greeted by Maddie, a three-year-old Boston Terrier, snorting and sounding the alarm behind a small baby-proof ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806345280808000 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806345280808000 en-us Two Cornelius men face charges relating to a New Year celebration gone wrong. Police say Jaime Eli Moya, 33, of Cornelius, was celebrating the New Year by firing a handgun in the direction of nearby homes on Yew Court in Forest Grove shortly after midnight on Jan. 1. Moya told police he thought ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806464485289900 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806464485289900 en-us Sydney Maller isn’t very tall, but that doesn’t bother the self-assured seven-year-old too much. She simply came up with a design for a “Great Booster Stool” to help her reach whatever she needs from the cupboards and high shelves at her family home in ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806982999229800 2012-01-31 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806982999229800 en-us In early ballot counts, Democrat Suzanne Bonamici was leading Republican Rob Cornilles by double-digits in the race to become the next congressperson from Oregon's 1st Congressional District. Bonamici was earning 56 percent of the vote in early 8 p.m. returns, while Cornilles was earning 38 ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806679125035700 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806679125035700 en-us After a year and a half in business, Stecchino Bistro has found a comfortable niche in downtown Forest Grove. And it’s probably due, in no small part, to the vision owner Christian Geffrard holds for the restaurant. “Our atmosphere is very laid back,” Geffrard said last week as ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806618464967700 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806618464967700 en-us Portland Community College and Portland State University have renewed a streamlined co-admission agreement that makes it easier for students to take classes at both institutions, live in PSU residence halls and complete their degrees, officials say. The two institutions started co-admitting ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806609791419900 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806609791419900 en-us Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler is drumming up support for a plan to consolidate state business assistance programs, giving the state what he calls an “economic development powerhouse.” The goal is to promote more job creation by helping get capital to promising young businesses, he ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806561177223300 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806561177223300 en-us Good Lovelies bring folk sounds to Pacific The Pacific University Performing Arts Series has spent its 18th season delving into the classical, with performances by pianist Davis Lanz and the legendary Vienna Boys Choir. Now, for the first concert of 2012, the celebrated series is adding some ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806537214176600 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806537214176600 en-us Minor injury crash between Nissan Leaf and empty school bus Oregon State Police cited Carlton man following a Tuesday morning crash with a school bus on Highway 47 a mile south of Gaston. According to Senior Trooper Dan Davis, a Yamhill-Carlton School District bus driven by Gregory Visage, 61, ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806514965150300 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806514965150300 en-us Chris Higginbotham had an attentive audience last Wednesday as he gave a tour of an unfinished home at 1055 Lilac St. in Forest Grove. Higginbotham, the construction teacher at Forest Grove High School, was showing off his students’ handiwork in the 2012 Viking House. Each year, a select ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806492779478400 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806492779478400 en-us Garden club offers $1,000 college scholarship Pioneer District Garden Clubs Inc. is offering a $1,000 scholarship to students in Washington, Columbia or Yamhill counties in 2012-13. Applicable majors include horticulture, floriculture, landscape design, conservation, forestry, botany, ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806481154099500 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806481154099500 en-us Different budget year, different rules. That’s the approach Forest Grove School District business manager Mike Schofield is taking as he plunges into a new budgeting season, one that’s expected to present as many financial challenges as last year. Yvonne Curtis, the district’s ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806362925330000 2012-02-01 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132806362925330000 en-us A TriMet task force is recommending the transit agency adopt a new fare system in order to raise $9 million in revenue in the next fiscal year. That proposal will be in a report to TriMet general manager Neil McFarlane this week as part of a plan that could close the $17 million budget gap the ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132753728232110800 2012-01-26 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132753728232110800 en-us The president and chief executive officer of Tigard's Medical Teams International announced that he would step down from the humanitarian aide organization later this year. Bas Vanderzalm, who has run the Christian charity for more than 14 years, will step down as CEO at the end of June but said ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745508663207900 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745508663207900 en-us A dark, foggy Sunday night in downtown Forest Grove was the perfect setting for Jayson Crittenden’s ghoulish vision. A smashed up pickup truck. A bloodied corpse. A ninja. No, it isn’t the filming of an episode of television’s “Grimm” that shut down Main Street for ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132744552526455500 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132744552526455500 en-us It isn’t at all unusual to see a group of fourth-graders from City View Charter School exploring an historic building in downtown Hillsboro. That could happen almost any weekday, because the seven-year-old private school, based on an “expeditionary learning” model, encourages its ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745514951630600 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745514951630600 en-us Pacific University professor Deke Gunderson will present “The Science and Art of Permaculture” at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30 in Hillsboro’s Venetian Theatre & Bistro (253 E. Main Street). Gunderson’s talk is the latest installment of OMSI’s Science Pub Hillsboro, an ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745491456808900 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745491456808900 en-us After a week of heavy snow and rain, all the usual low spots in western Washington County are sopping wet and flooded. Susbauer Road? Check. Fern Hill Road? Yep. Gaston Road near Spring Hill? Yup. So far, the flooding hasn’t triggered reports of serious damage to homes or property in the ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745476228215700 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745476228215700 en-us A fire at the childhood home of a fallen Cornelius Navy corpsman Tuesday caused $50,000 in damage, but many mementos and the structure itself were spared. The fire broke out in the home of Susan Blanchard, mother of Ryley Gallinger-Long, a military hospitalman killed in Afghanistan last August, ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745459980454400 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745459980454400 en-us A nine-year legal fight between the Forest Grove School District and the parents of a former student in a dispute over special education services is finally over, after a second trip to the U.S. Supreme Court. District special education director Brad Bafaro said Tuesday that the Hungerford Law ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745447487615600 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745447487615600 en-us Alisa Hampton, chair of the Forest Grove School Board, might not run for reelection when her term comes to an end in June 2013. Near the end of a back-and-forth debate over the selection of a second new appointee to the board Monday night, Hampton said she planned to step down. “Since going ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745440045714500 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745440045714500 en-us It took a surprise intervention to get the job accomplished, but the Forest Grove School Board gained two new appointees Monday night. Soon-to-retire Pacific University liberal arts dean John Hayes was an easy pick to fill one of two seats on the board, vacated when voters recalled former members ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745416495070800 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132745416495070800 en-us Banks city manager set to retire Banks City Manager Jim Hough is planning to retire this year after roughly five years of leading the city. The Banks city council voted to create the city manager position in 2006 and voters adopted changes to the city charter to define the job in 2007. Hough ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132744588070164000 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132744588070164000 en-us Residents of Forest Grove no longer have to trek to Powell’s City of Books in Portland to spend a pleasant hour browsing used books. Periscope Books and Tutoring, located at 1920 Pacific Ave., provides a cozy environment complete with big chairs and a fireplace. In the classroom space at the ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132744581111852400 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132744581111852400 en-us If the small classes don’t catch your attention, the focus on community service probably will. Those are two hallmarks of the educational program at Emmaus Christian School in Cornelius, a private nonprofit that turns 34 years old in 2012. Serving students from preschool through eighth ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132744570025707900 2012-01-25 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132744570025707900 en-us Swallowtail School has scheduled its next open house for Thursday, Feb. 9 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the main campus, 332 NE Sixth Ave., Hillsboro. The school will also host open houses on Saturday, Feb. 11 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the main campus and rural campus. The school was founded by Lauren ... http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132738809362439700 2012-01-23 00:00:00 http://www.forestgrovenewstimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=132738809362439700 en-us Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler is drumming up support for a plan to consolidate state business assistance programs, giving the state what he calls an “economic development powerhouse.” The goal is to promote more job creation by helping get capital to promising young businesses, he ...