Happy weekend, Tigard and Tualatin residents (and the folks interesting in what’s going on).
If there’s any flooding or other weather-related issues in your communities this weekend, please contact me at [email protected].
This was a very busy week in news for the southwest suburbs. Sit down with a nice cup of coffee (or whatever other beverage you may prefer) and catch up on this week’s news:
What’s going on with your water:
DISPUTE: Tigard is not joining Tualatin and Tualatin Valley
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Happy weekend, Tigard and Tualatin residents (and the folks interesting in what’s going on).
If there’s any flooding or other weather-related issues in your communities this weekend, please contact me at [email protected].
This was a very busy week in news for the southwest suburbs. Sit down with a nice cup of coffee (or whatever other beverage you may prefer) and catch up on this week’s news:
What’s going on with your water:
DISPUTE: Tigard is not joining Tualatin and Tualatin Valley Water District in a contract fight with Portland over a summer water spat.
BACTERIA: Tigard switched its water supply as a precaution after total coliform was detected in Portland’s water.
What’s going on with your public transportation:
BALLOT MEASURE: This March, voters will decide whether Tigard should oppose high-capacity transit and go back to voters before updating its regulations to allow light rail or exclusive bus lanes.
SW CORRIDOR PLAN:An update on possibilities for light rail and bus rapid transit connecting Portland and Tualatin through Tigard, in a Metro-led plan.
WES: More workers are taking the WES, expected to increase with a new shuttle offered by Tualatin’s Chamber of Commerce.
What’s going on in your schools:
FUNDING: An last-minute injection into school budget that prevented layoffs and a music education shakeup is now in question. Reporter Katherine Driessen wrote an explainer on the technical reasons why.
ACHIEVEMENT GAP: The gap between Latino and white high school students’ performance on state reading tests has shrunk rapidly, but is stagnating or getting worse in other grades and subjects.
READING: A union leader says teachers have not received the necessary training for a new, Common Core-friendly approach to reading in elementary schools.
OSAA: New OSAA draft has Tigard and Tualatin moving to the Three Rivers League.
A quick glimpse at Alberta Rider Elementary School’s fifth grade vocabulary parade:
What’s going on with police and courts:
EVACUATION:A device that led to the evacuation of Tualatin apartments was not dangerous, police say.
CAR THEFT:Two teens were arrested in Keizer in connection with a Tualatin car theft, The Times reported.
What else is going on in your community?
Capital One: After laying off hundreds, Tigard’s once largest employer is rehiring for its call center.
BONAMICI: Dispatch from U.S. Rep Suzanne Bonamici’s town hall in Tualatin last week, from The Times.
BABY: Meet Tualatin’s Centennial baby, the one hundredth baby born in Tualatin in the city’s 100th year, from The Times.
–Fenit Nirappil: 503-294-4029; [email protected]
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