A man and woman were slightly injured in Saturday morning fire that damaged their Sellwood home. The husband and wife were treated for smoke inhalation at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center. The fire was reported at about 9:58 a.m. at 1136 S.E. Bidwell St. ... »
AHB anniversary offers program on “successful selling” At this month’s 20th anniversary meeting of the Association of Home Businesses in Sellwood, open to everyone, on Thursday, April 19th, the program is on marketing challenges and opportunities for h... »
As evidence that the City of Milwaukie remains quite serious about offering the public a minor league professional baseball experience just south of Sellwood on the east side of McLoughlin Boulevard, the city retained J.E. Isaac, who was once an execut... »
A 100-foot-long brick wall, the only surviving part of the very historic Portland Railway Light & Power Company Sellwood streetcar maintenance “barn”, is no longer. The carbarns, built in 1911-12, were associated with what earlier had become the first ... »
Sellwood cleanup much appreciated Editor, I thought your readers would be interested to know about a clean-up effort, completed by just one person. On a rainy Saturday morning in March a native Portlander (but not even a Sellwood resident), Scott Howe,... »
The project to rebuild the Sellwood Bridge inched along in March. The most noticeable progress came early in the month, as the Staff Jennings facility was demolished in only a couple of days. “The land will become part of the construction zone,” explai... »
Marching, and Irish food and games, attracted hundreds of people to the St. Agatha Sellwood-Westmoreland St. Patrick’s Festival and Parade on Saturday, March 10 — a full week ahead of the actual official St. Patrick’s Day on the calendar. As the parade... »
“Truth, Lies, and Marketing” features BEE’s Ashton At this month’s meeting of the Association of Home Businesses in Sellwood, open to everyone, on Thursday, March 15th, the program is presented by BEE journalist, operator of several home businesses pre... »
John Wayne Hallgrimson was born in Drayton, North Dakota, on July 5, 1936, to John and Ann Hallgrimson. In the early 1940’s, the family moved from Mountain, North Dakota, to Portland, then Newberg, and finally back to Portland, settling in the Sellwood... »
“Setting Your Price: Bids, Estimates, Verbal Agreements” At this month’s meeting of the Association of Home Businesses in Sellwood, open to everyone, on Thursday, February 16th, the speaker is AHB member Kathryn Leech of River City Gardens (www.riverci... »
Eastmoreland resident Jim Wygant, a retired Polygraph examiner, recently published his third paperback book: “Confessions of a Lie Detector: Years of theft, sex and murder” (Lycetta Press, 2011, 298 pages). He spent an evening at the Sellwood Branch Li... »
As the calendar turned to 2012, Portland Parks and Recreation lauded maintenance worker Peter Anthony for helping save a 54 year-old man’s life on New Year’s Day. A distraught man approached Anthony, a veteran of five years with PP&R, on the north shor... »
Unless a donor with deep pockets comes forward to help, the final piece of the historic Sellwood Carbarns, at S.E. 13th Avenue between Linn and Ochoco Streets, may soon be demolished. On January 11, a handful of the 69 members of the Trolley Barn Commo... »
On December 16th, officials from Multnomah County, the City of Portland, and the State of Oregon gathered — along with neighbors, and a number of schoolchildren — at the edge of the Willamette River at Sellwood Riverfront Park, to “break ground” for th... »
It was in the early 1990’s that engineers finally figured out why the west-side support pillars under the Sellwood Bridge kept twisting out of alignment – and the west-end ramp kept “accordioning”, pushing the roadbed into angles and cracking the concr... »
