If you’re looking for a string of belly-laughs that will take your mind off your troubles and have you chuckling all the way home, Marvin’s Room is not the play you want to see. And if you’re looking for a down-and-dirty, depressing, gritty… Read more

by Dan Bosserman “If I don’t get some shelter, Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away” —Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones Early last spring, Don Burton and his wife were sitting in their pickup on Highway 224 across from the Barton Store,… Read more

I sat down with my friend Carl Exner, Sandy’s newest City Councilor, to talk about the recent joint meeting with the Oregon Trail School Board and the Sandy City Council. The meeting had been set up specifically to “discuss coordination and… Read more

Because it’s so rare these days, the first thing you’ll notice, driving up to White’s Country Meats on Hwy. 26 just east of Gresham, is a “Help Wanted” sign. “Are you hiring back some of the positions you had to let go because of the… Read more

Oh, yes, it’s true that Sandy, Oregon, rightly bills itself as the “Gateway to Mt. Hood,” but there’s another gateway in the East County that deserves credit: Estacada, increasingly known as the “Gateway to the Clackamas River Recreational… Read more