Dean's Beauty Salon and Barber Shop opened 68 years ago. The owner plans a party Saturday to celebrate the journey and the salon's designation in the National Register of Historic Places.
The “Skip-a Week Quilt Club,” which meets weekly at the Garfield Grange, is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a display of friendship quilts this week.
For nearly 30 years, Errol Wayne Carlson and his partner, Mel Hafsos, owned Taylor Court Grocery on Southeast 80th Avenue. Carlson died in June.
Before he had a stroke 12 years ago, Jim Smith had been an avid hot air balloon pilot and a festival volunteer.
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Joy jumped out of the outdoor cage and flew away in downtown Portland.
The small black-and-white photograph of a 15-year-old girl in Indiana survived World War II, a flood and who knows how long in a tree in Northeast Portland.
Two care home employees — caregivers Tim Spencer, 38, and Hermie Magistrado, 75 — helped firefighters rescue 22 residents from the blaze.
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Composed by Damien Geter, the work premieres Saturday and will feature the Oregon Symphony, an 82-person choir, four soloists and poet S. Renee Mitchell.
Thomas Vice serves at Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center, where patients, their loved ones and staff grapple with life, suffering and fear.
"Art proves that you can be victimized, but you are not a victim," says Rosalyn Kliot.
A retired oncology nurse with an aggressive form of cancer has championed the fundraising effort to reopen Hopewell.
The long journey to Monday began on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015, when an electrical fire broke out in a wall in the church basement. It was quickly extinguished, but that night a transformer exploded, dropping a live power line onto the church roof and igniting the building.
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