http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124663582716267800 Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, one of the region’s largest fire districts, banned most outdoor burning this week. The fire district that covers nine cities and parts of Washington, Multnomah and Clackamas counties issued the ban Wednesday, July 1. It covers backyard burning, agricultural ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124663404247031600 A 49-year-old man was arrested Thursday afternoon in connection with the robbery of a Wells Fargo Bank in Raleigh Hills. Washington County sheriff’s deputies caught Brett Matthew Johnson using a K9 team that tracked him to a nearby apartment. Johnson was taken into custody when he tried to ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124649776625186300 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 killing a pregnant woman. House Bill 3505, which carries a life-without-parole sentence for anyone convicted of killing a pregnant woman, is on its ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124649605918749200 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 small amounts of foamed water to lower the product’s temperature and create a more environmentally safe product. Warm-mix asphalt is a generic ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124649399692946200 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 could be developed into a busy, urban area — filled with subdivisions, traffic and clamor. As Beaverton and other cities look towards future ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124649148668652300 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 custody after a brief standoff in a Southwest Lombard Avenue apartment complex, but police are not sure he was involved in the bank robbery. Police ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124647911518504500 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 Garden Home Road. Portland police said Patricia Field died during treatment at Legacy Emanuel Hospital. A LifeFlight helicopter took her there after the ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124595293443594100 The hundreds who gathered despite the rain brought candles, red flowers and flags. As Portland’s Iranian community assembled outside Portland State University’s Millar Library on Friday evening, events in their homeland grew more frightening. The contested results of the June 12 ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124602967704328100 Washington County prosecutors will not be able to use testimony by Ricardo Serrano’s estranged wife against him in a trial on charges that Serrano murdered a Bethany woman and her two boys in November 2006 as revenge for his wife’s affair. Ricardo Serrano, 34, was arrested in late ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124597352997761300 A group of concerned locals recently delivered advice to the mayor — not an uncommon occurrence — only these locals weren’t part of an advocacy group or neighborhood association, they were children. Numerous elementary school, middle school, high school and college students ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124595355171354200 When Sylvia Barajas-Everson found out that two of the Washington County college students she mentored through high school were chosen to participate in a national Latina leadership conference in Washington, D.C., she was ecstatic. Here were two former first-generation high school students — ... http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=124595328364691500 The Beaverton Civic Theatre has found a new home, at the Beaverton City Library Auditorium. With the recent closing of the Kingstad Center, the young community theater needed a solid, new location to hold its rehearsals and performances. “Through the amazing support of the city of Beaverton ...