Portland, United States (Local)
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David F. Ashton's coverage primarily focuses on local news stories in Portland, Oregon. His articles mainly cover entertainment news, house & home-related topics, and crime stories within the Portland area.
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Inner Southeast Portland is served from two different Portland Police Bureau precincts; the area west of S.E. Chavez Blvd. (formerly 39th Avenue) is covered by Central Precinct, which is based in downtown Portland. The area east of Chavez Blvd. is served by East Precinct.
A “Priority Disturbance” dispatch sent East Precinct officers to S.E. 52nd Avenue near Malden Drive on the very Thursday that the August BEE was on the printing press – at 10 a.m. sharp – to what turned out actually to be a shots-fired incident.
The Johnson Creek Watershed Council's 31st Annual “Riffle Awards” filled Reed College's Kaul Auditorium on an evening early in the summer season, as supporters gathered to celebrate local conservation work – and to remember one of the organization's founders. The JCWC is headquartered at All Saints Episcopal Church in Woodstock.
Officers closed part of Johnson Creek Park in Sellwood after a man emerged wounded from the wooded area near the creek on Thursday, August 20.
For ten summer Friday evenings this summer, the grass in the south end of upper Sellwood Park, on the west side of S.E. 7th Avenue, turned into a neighborhood concert stage as “Sellwood Sessions” brought free, all‑ages music to the community. The music series started at 6:30 p.m. on July 10th, and will conclude on September 11th – in front of “The Shack”, an old PP&R utility building last year updated by Sellwood Community House into being a seasonal community hub, tucked under the park's towering Douglas fir trees.
Shortly before 9 p.m. on a Thursday in midsummer a menacing encounter began near Hazeltine Park along S.E. Flavel Drive, in Inner Southeast's Brentwood‑Darlington neighborhood. The encounter ended with an e‑bike robbery less than a mile away, near the dead end of S.E. Fern Avenue and 62nd Avenue in unincorporated Clackamas County.
With the fall term of school looming, “Shop with a Cop” returned to Southeast Portland at 7:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 20th – filling the Johnson Creek Fred Meyer store with kids, cops, and volunteers in its 25th year.
Usually, when shots have been fired, somebody has heard them. In this case, residents found a lot of spent bullet casings on their street and assumed the worst. But, when East Precinct officers responded to the calls received on a Sunday evening in early August, all they found was the discarded casings. Nobody reported hearing any shots. Was it a case of a shooting – or a passer-by disposing of trash in the street?
One of Southeast Portland's most popular summertime draws is still “Sundae in the Park”, reliably held every year in the afternoon of the first Sunday in August, in upper Sellwood Park – only skipping during the Pandemic.
Portland Police Bureau officers and emergency medical crews were dispatched to an injury traffic crash in Inner Southeast Portland early Wednesday evening, August 12th, at the intersection of S.E. Powell Boulevard and 40th Avenue.
