Good morning, Southeast and Southwest Portland! Today I’ll be writing and digging through a heap of documents. The first is fun. The latter will probably be mind boggling.
But first, the news:
Wilson High School, Rieke Elementary School and Robert Gray Middle School were locked down for about 30 minutes yesterday morning while U.S. Marshals searched for a man wanted on a gun charge, Kimberly A.C. Wilson reports. Classes continued as usual, but students weren’t allowed to leave the classroom
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Good morning, Southeast and Southwest Portland! Today I’ll be writing and digging through a heap of documents. The first is fun. The latter will probably be mind boggling.
But first, the news:
Wilson High School, Rieke Elementary School and Robert Gray Middle School were locked down for about 30 minutes yesterday morning while U.S. Marshals searched for a man wanted on a gun charge, Kimberly A.C. Wilson reports. Classes continued as usual, but students weren’t allowed to leave the classroom during the lock downs and outside doors were locked. The suspect was apprehended.
Central Catholic High School is looking for a site (and funds) to build a football stadium, Jerry Ulmer reports. The Southeast Portland school uses Hillsboro Stadium, which is 17 miles from campus.
A bus driver who drives the No. 10 bus, which runs from Southeast Foster and Southeast 94th Avenue to downtown, might have whooping cough. The respiratory infection is highly contagious and can be deadly for children and pregnant women. The case is unconfirmed, Joseph Rose reports, but TriMet panicked Tuesday, sending out a public announcement and covering the door of the bus with caution tape without first consulting local health officials. A Multnomah County health official said the likelihood of the driver’s illness being whooping cough (or Pertussis) is very low.
The Oregon Zoo is temporarily caring for three 7-week-old orphaned cougar cubs. Katy Muldoon reports two cubs will be sent to a zoo in Kansas, the other to a zoo in New York.
The woman hit by a MAX train in Southwest Portland on Tuesday has been identified by police as 33-year-old Erin Pierce. Maxine Berstein reports Pierce remains hospitalized with traumatic injuries.
The ninth annual Grant and Cleveland Community Ski and Snowboard Swap begins tomorrow and runs through Sunday. The sale is in the Northeast — at Portland Adventure Bootcamp gym at 1606 Northeast 37th Avenue — but benefits team skiers at Cleveland High School. With an admission fee of $2 per person or $5 per family, you’ll get free popcorn. The team shared details on OregonLive.
City officials say they need to spend $3.7 million to eliminate a bottleneck on a streetcar route downtown by 2015, Brad Schmidt reports, but it isn’t clear where the money will come from.
KATU reports a man going door to door in Southeast Portland asking for money didn’t do a great job identifying himself as a collector of funds for the United States Mission, which supports veterans. A legally blind woman was so concerned by his repeated visits that she called the police. She said the first time he came to her door he identified himself as a cable guy.
That’s all for now! Feel free to email me with story ideas.
— Melissa Binder