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Fire district bans most outdoor burning

Pamplin Media Group Fri, Jul 3, 2009

Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, one of the region’s largest fire districts, banned most outdoor burning this week. The fire district that …

Search dog tracks Raleigh Hills bank robbery suspect to apartment

Pamplin Media Group
Fri, Jul 3, 2009
Updated 8.5 hours ago

A 49-year-old man was arrested Thursday afternoon in connection with the robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank in Raleigh Hills. Washington County …

New bill protects pregnant women

Pamplin Media Group
Thu, Jul 2, 2009

It took some fancy footwork, but Oregon lawmakers approved in the final days of the 2009 legislative session a new law that increases the penalty for …

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Asphalt creation goes green at Baker Rock Resources

By Stover E Harger III /
The Beaverton Valley Times
Thu, Jul 2, 2009

Baker Rock Resources believes it is heading towards the future of asphalt creation in the form of warm mix, a way to create the sticky mixture using …

Civic Theatre finds a new home for plays

The Beaverton Valley Times
Thu, Jun 25, 2009
Updated Jun 25, 2009

The Beaverton Civic Theatre has found a new home, at the Beaverton City Library Auditorium. With the recent closing of the Kingstad Center, the …

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Beaverton’s Iranian community speaks out about homeland conflict

By Polina Olsen /
The Beaverton Valley Times
Thu, Jun 25, 2009
Updated Jun 30, 2009

The hundreds who gathered despite the rain brought candles, red flowers and flags. As Portland’s Iranian community assembled outside Portland …

Court blocks wife’s testimony in ’06 Bethany murder case

Pamplin Media Group
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
Updated Jun 26, 2009

Washington County prosecutors will not be able to use testimony by Ricardo Serrano’s estranged wife against him in a trial on charges that …

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Jaime Valdez / Beaverton Valley Times

GROWING PAINS — Cori Bacher shares her concerns about the city of Beaverton wanting to annex land around her property, which is timber farmland that provides shelter for wildlife in its 80-year-old Douglas firs.

Feeling the urban pinch

Rural residents fearful of potential annexation of property into Beaverton

By Stover E Harger III / The Beaverton Valley Times
Thu, Jul 2, 2009

As Cori Bacher looks out over a ridge bordering her 93-acre Forest Park neighborhood property, she laments that one day the serene rural backdrop …

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Woman killed in Garden Home parking lot accident

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Wed, Jul 1, 2009

An 85-year-old Garden Home woman died Tuesday night after being struck by a vehicle in the parking lot of the Lamb’s Thriftway on Southwest …

Standoff leads to man’s arrest after Beaverton bank robbery

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Wed, Jul 1, 2009

Beaverton police and the FBI are investigating a Wednesday morning robbery of a U S Bank branch on Southwest Hall Boulevard. One man was taken into …

Two students head to D.C. for conference

By Stover E Harger III / The Beaverton Valley Times
Thu, Jun 25, 2009
Updated Jun 25, 2009

When Sylvia Barajas-Everson found out that two of the Washington County college students she mentored through high school were chosen to participate …

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Students give mayor their two cents

By Stover E Harger III / The Beaverton Valley Times
Thu, Jun 25, 2009
Updated Jun 25, 2009

A group of concerned locals recently delivered advice to the mayor — not an uncommon occurrence — only these locals weren’t part of …

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