David F. Ashton

In October, people who were looking for the complete “Hallowe’en experience” – including three terror-inducing haunted houses, roaming creepy monsters and fiends, startling special effects, and creepy “sideshows” – made

Members of the Cleveland High School (CHS) bands stayed after school on Friday, September 27, to play on into the evening – at their annual “Play-a-Thon” fundraiser in the school’s

The Ardenwald neighborhood’s storied “Davis Graveyard” display off Johnson Creek Boulevard at the end of October has created thoughtful gravestones for notable personalities who have recently died. Combined with the

Around midnight on Friday, October 4th, an otherwise quiet evening near 52nd Avenue was punctuated by the sounds of a man shouting and a causing a commotion on the second

Under canopies set up in the Multnomah County Master Gardener Association (MCMGA) Demonstration Garden, the Saturday afternoon of September 14th was the date for the annual end-of-season Harvest Potluck Party.

A commotion at “La Mota”, on S.E. 52nd Avenue near Flavel Street, on September 28, led to East Precinct officers were responding a the Brentwood-Darlington marijuana dispensary at 9:20 p.m.

Police responded to the report an incident on Wednesday afternoon, September 25th, at Cleveland High School, involving a weapon. When Central Precinct officers arrived, they learned several people had been chasing a student, according to a Portland Police Bureau spokesperson. It was unclear why there was a chase or who was doing the chasing.

Over the years, the ravine which bisects the 13th hole at Eastmoreland Golf Course had become overgrown with weeds and blackberries. The Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) manager and groundskeepers were uncertain just how to remove the overgrowth on the Par 5 fairway's steep embankments.

More than 9,000 registered runners sprinted, jogged, and walked their way over the Sellwood Bridge, and on multiple routes through Inner Southeast neighborhoods in the running of the 52nd annual Portland Marathon on Sunday morning, October 6. Organizers said it was the largest turnout in the event's history.

When a mother was shot to death in the parking lot of the Wimbledon Square Apartments in the Reed neighborhood of Inner Southeast – on April 15, 2023 – those who knew the victim, April Newcombe Cripe, said they were shocked – but not surprised. There had apparently been trouble.