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  • Pier Park “Bloody Wednesday” and the 1934 longshoremen’s strike

    Pier Park “Bloody Wednesday” and the 1934 longshoremen’s strike

    By Edme Guetschow This year, with rising inflation and financial instability impacting lives across the country, labor issues have become more prominent. The month of May brought many celebrations of the American labor movement in Portland, with demonstrations in the city on May 1.  Some may have seen a group of labor activists advocating for…

  • Key Earth Week events on the peninsula

    Key Earth Week events on the peninsula

    By Barbara Quinn Earth Week is an annual, event dedicated to raising awareness about the environment and the need to protect our planet. North Portland is hosting three key events during Earth Week: Pier Park Pick Up sponsored by Friends of Pier Park 100 volunteers are being sought to help remove invasives like ivy and blackberry,…

  • The Belmont Goats settling in at Pier Park

    The Belmont Goats settling in at Pier Park

    By Barbara Quinn The Belmont Goats, the famed herd originally brought in to devour overgrowth at a vacant lot in Southeast Portland in 2012, are now firmly established at Pier Park in St. Johns.  The now-elderly cloven-hoofed celebrities are down to six from a high of 14. They have moved several times but North Portland…

  • Pier Pool reopens July 14

    Pier Pool reopens July 14

    Pier and Peninsula pools will have extended summer seasons Pier Pool is on track to reopen July 14 after abruptly closing for almost the entire 2024 summer season due to a catastrophic mechanical failure. The main water pipe of the 84-year-old pool broke on June 27, 2024, forcing Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) to close…

  • Neighbors confront Parks on Pier Pool

    Neighbors confront Parks on Pier Pool

    Disbelief. Anger. Indignation. Emotions boiled over as neighbors grilled a Portland Parks & Recreation (PP&R) manager during a recent meeting over the bureau’s closing of Pier Pool for the 2024 season. “Cut the BS—and do something about park maintenance,” longtime pool advocate Elaine Mildenberger told Parks manager, Nancy Roth, before an audience of 60 people…

  • Pier Park Pool closure alarms supporters

    Pier Park Pool closure alarms supporters

    The sudden closure of Pier Park Pool for repairs has alarmed pool advocates. “We’ve received emails from concerned citizens fearing that what happened to Columbia Pool might also happen to Pier Pool,” said Keola Morley of Friends of Pier Park. The Parks Bureau closed Pier Pool after a water main broke on June 27 just hot weather began. Contractors…

  • Arctic blast hits North Portland

    Freezing conditions engulfed North Portland hard starting Saturday, Jan. 13, with temperatures in the teens, snowfall and persistent wind gusts creating blizzard-like snow swirls. The low temperatures continued Sunday, Monday and Tuesday with warnings from PBOT to avoid driving. However, Monday, Jan. 15, saw clear skies, little wind and sun. Residents used the opportunity to…

  • Portland Parks’ maintenance neglect impacts North Portland (May 2023)

    Portland Parks’ maintenance neglect impacts North Portland (May 2023)

    The Parks & Recreation Bureau has the distinction of having the biggest maintenance backlog of any City of Portland bureau—$600 million—a figure that exceeds the Gross National Product of eight countries in the United Nations including the Marshall Islands, Tonga and Sao Tome. And closer to home, that figure is twice the $276 million backlog…