http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=121056806103827400 The Northwest Environmental Defense Center and Friends of the Tualatin Wildlife Refuge are suing the owner of Lakeside Reclamation Landfill in Washington County to block water flowing from the site to the Tualatin River. The lawsuit, filed May 7 in Portland’s U.S. District Court, was brought ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=121021267841951500 A trio of run-ins between coyotes and residents living near Durham Park has prompted a federal effort to try to catch, and kill, the offending canines. Three confrontations have triggered the effort, the latest last Thursday when a resident discovered his Dachshund had been snatched from his yard ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=121021287133798000 The law created by House Bill 2650 won’t automatically change eating habits, admits state Rep. Scott Bruun, R-West Linn. In fact, Bruun is well aware that students — particularly those of high school age — will find ways around the law which starting July 1 will clear schools of ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=121021403283709100 TIGARD – Behind a thin veil of black curtain, five girls and two boys sequester themselves Friday mornings on a stage three feet off the ground from the rest of the student body gathered in the Alberta Rider Elementary School cafeteria. Chins down, eyes up, the students run through childhood ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=121021385308437900 SHERWOOD – A West Bull Mountain advisory committee agreed last week that the concept plan for the made-from-scratch community needs to include language about job creation and more diverse housing than some envision. Also, it looked at the disparity between what people now living in the areas ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=121021369089676300 TUALATIN – For the first time in five years, the Tualatin High School orchestra is heading to state competition. And director Brandon VanDyke fully expects the Tualatin High orchestra to be the only one there to be led by a band teacher. As the 26-member string orchestra practiced its ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=121021357920304700 TUALATIN – A 24-year-old homeless man is being held in the Washington County Jail on a $2,500 bond after being arrested on Friday for allegedly assaulting two other homeless people in Tualatin. Jesse Roger Giles is being held on two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of unlawful ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=121021336132676000 TIGARD – The emergence of a large Portland law firm that is representing some property owners along Burnham Street could prove to be a financial thorn in the side of city planners and budget-builders. In January, Schwabe Williamson and Wyatt, listed as the second largest law firm in Oregon ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=121021305440821000 TUALATIN – The concerns of residents on Seminole Trail in Tualatin boil down to one nervous fear: no one wants to live next door to an addict. For the last month, residents in the small cul-de-sac neighborhood have circulated a petition, approached Tualatin planning officials and spoke ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120960222985177900 Why would the Tigard branch of a solicitation company that touts itself to prospective employees as a Fortune 500 marketing firm strand a 20-year-old Oregon City woman 30 miles from home? That’s what Ashton Nicole Lugar wants to know. It’s also a question at the edge of a legislative ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120958670687386100 A Sherwood woman died April 27 in a motorcycle accident on Interstate 5. Terri Lee Young, 41, was killed at about 4 p.m. Sunday, April 27, when the motorcycle she was riding southbound near Southwest Terwilliger Boulevard left the road and slammed into a jersey barrier dividing the north- and ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120975481559052700 TUALATIN – For a second time in three weeks, masked robbers have held up the Burger King restaurant on Southwest McEwan Road in Tualatin. At this time, police are unsure if the two incidents are connected. At about 1:18 a.m. Friday, May 2, Tualatin police responded to a report of an armed ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120960246261658000 In the past month, 15 catalytic converters have been stolen right out from underneath local drivers. While people slept in their homes, visited a hospital, left a car in a Park & Ride in broad daylight or simply ran into a store for a quick purchase, it didn’t take long for the thieves to ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120960201657734700 Standing just inside the fence line that encircles the charred remains of her home, Kim Williams stiffens her back when she talks about rebuilding. But as she stares past the brittle, blackened and chaotic mess that was her 3,200-square-foot house, she tears up. Her family lost everything after a ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120976108280767700 TIGARD – If everything goes as planned, Tigard school students Andrea Fisher and Sterling Mier will join the jet set of our nation’s great competitors in August as they ply their skills at the 2008 Olympics in China. But for Fisher and Mier, the fruits of their abilities will not play ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120976044786763300 TIGARD — Imagine building a robot at the age of 11 or 14. With LEGO robotics competitions growing in popularity nationwide, parents and educators don’t have to stretch their imaginations too far to envision that. But now envision 11- and 14-year-old girls taking that robot and the mini ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120976027510355900 TUALATIN – A concern expressed in the early stages of the Tualatin Tomorrow visioning project was that it would end up like many city reports – stuffed in a binder gathering dust on a city employee’s bookshelf. But almost a year after finalizing a visioning plan, the Tualatin ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120976015986621600 TUALATIN – The Tigard-Tualatin School District has named Rick Fraisse as the new principal of Byrom Elementary School. Fraisse is currently the principal at Alder Elementary School in the Reynolds School District. He will officially take on his new position at Byrom on July 1. He replaces ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120976002555469800 TUALATIN – The city of Tualatin officially began testing the waters Wednesday to see if residents really want a recreation center. The latest draft of the proposed center focuses on a 72,975-square-foot facility attached to an estimated $39.8 million price tag. Coupled with plans for park, ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120975987302444800 TIGARD – A dangerous scenario that pitted heavy motor traffic, entrenched businesses and the looming arrival of TriMet’s fast-moving Westside Express Service trains will be fixed by adding and synchronizing traffic lights at the intersection of Bonita Road and 74th Avenue. The ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120968327249003100 TIGARD – The Tigard Police Department has a new face on its team of law enforcement pros. Or should we say snout? Baxter, a male German shepherd procured from a Miami, Fla., vendor for $7,000, has been working the beat with Officer Brian Jackson for nearly a month now. Baxter was bred in ... http://www.tigardtimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=120953323659641500 Washington County officials are going to keep talking with organizers of a summer Renaissance festival planned for the fairgrounds in Hillsboro, while they try to solve the site’s parking puzzle. A 17-member working group voted 15 to 2 Tuesday morning to recommend that the Fairgrounds ...