Oregon SenateAires chorus selects new artistic director April 05 2021
With weekly practices resuming, Will Fox to lead acapella barbershop members to 2021 performances throughout Willamette Valley.
New Artistic Director Will Fox intends to lead Oregon s premier acapella barbershop chorus through the pandemic with performances throughout the Willamette Valley this year.
With members from nearly every part of Clackamas and Marion counties, Oregon SenateAires is celebrating its 62nd year as a community service organization showcasing distinctive barbershop harmonies. Their Americana-style quartets and chorus members together account for nearly 1,000 years of music experience and have placed with highest honors in district, national and international competitions for delivering finely executed music.
Washington plans $1 billion to replace Interstate 5 bridge April 03 2021
As Washington shapes plans to replace the I-5 bridge crossing the Columbia River, Oregon lawmakers wait and watch.
As Washington shows early signs of getting serious about replacing the Interstate 5 bridge, Oregon s lawmakers said Wednesday, March 31, they want to be wooed.
Oregon still feels like the bride left waiting at the altar, said Sen. Lee Beyer, D-Springfield, after the Washington State Senate infamously refused in 2013 to fund a replacement for the century-old bridge.
And because the massive project will have a massive price tag, Oregon lawmakers first want to see proposals from their neighbors to the north, and likewise see what may come from the Biden Administration s newly revealed infrastructure plan.
MINNEAPOLIS In an effort to highlight his client’s impeccable character, the defense attorney representing Derek Chauvin praised the former police officer Thursday for exercising great restraint by not killing bystanders. “As the video evidence shows, there were several bystanders standing only a few feet away during the time of George Floyd’s arrest, and yet Mr. Chauvin didn’t attempt to shoot or strangle a single one,” said attorney Eric Nelson, who commended Chauvin for remaining calm and composed while responding to the call regarding a counterfeit bill by letting the half-dozen witnesses watching from the curb go physically unscathed. “Mr. Chauvin was under a staggering amount of stress at the time, and the fact that not everybody was gunned down in a bloodbath is just proof of his exceptional professionalism. It is clear Derek Chauvin is a highly self-disciplined man, as any average police officer would have shot the bystanders in the back the moment they turned away.
April 01 2021
Katrise Perera will leave in June to take a job in a Texas school district to be closer to her family.
Katrise Perera, superintendent of the Gresham-Barlow School District announced Wednesday, March 31, that she is leaving the district after four years to take a superintendent s job in Texas.
Perera will leave at the end of this school year for the top job in the Lancaster Independent School District in Texas. It has been a great honor to serve the students, staff, families and community of the Gresham-Barlow School District, Perera said in the announcement Wednesday, March 31. The decision to leave GSBD has been a difficult one; however, this opportunity will allow me to live closer to my family, who need support and assistance.
Power trio appears at subcommittee meeting
The three most powerful politicians in Salem appeared together virtually on Monday for a Joint Ways & Means Subcommittee on Education hearing.
Gov. Kate Brown, Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, and Kotek spoke in support of their joint proposal for a $250 million summer learning and childcare package.
Supporters say the program will help thousands of Oregon children catch up on learning and socializing after a year of mostly virtual schooling. The legislation will set our kids up for success by letting them be kids again, in environments that foster creativity, learning, and joy, Brown said.