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Linnton Greenway River Trail progresses – locals commission sculpture by Ivan McClean
By Ed Jones, of Linnton Neighborhood Association Decades ago, Portland created a Greenway along the Willamette. It wasn’t funded, but it required riverfront landowners to pay for the building of the Greenway if and when they developed their property. There are now miles of Greenway, mostly in Southwest and Southeast Portland. In the North Reach…
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Portland Councilor Green refuses to resign after anti-police postings surface
By Jim Redden District 4 City Councilor Mitch Green is refusing to resign after a series of messages he wrote on Twitter harshly criticizing Portland and other police in 2020 and 2021 recently resurfaced. District 4 covers all of Northwest Portland, including the tip that includes the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub along the Willamette River…
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Linnton River Trail finally wins permits
By Barbara Quinn The Linnton Greenway Trail Project has prevailed in the first part of legal proceedings aimed at enabling construction of a public trail along Linnton’s Willamette Riverfront. “This park, which would be accessed via the recently built NW 107th Avenue trailhead, has been stalled by an adjacent commercial landowner, George Webb, and the…
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Canceled: Meet & Greet with Thuy Tran, State Representative, HD 45
Note from Nikki Mandell:I’m sorry, but we found it necessary to cancel the Meet & Greet with Rep. Tran scheduled for next Wed. There have been – and continue to be – so many important events and demands on climate and safety advocates’ time that it became clear that this late May date is not…
