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April 01 2021 A chance run-in with Forest Grove s police chief led a retired journalist down the rabbit hole to find the truth. Part 1 of a series A few months ago, I ran into Forest Grove Police Chief Henry Reimann outside the city library. I was on my way out after picking up some books and he was on his way in to record Is Your Mama a Llama? for the library s online storytime program. As a member of the Forest Grove chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice, I d gotten to know Reimann a bit and found him open and easygoing. So I asked if he had any updates on the Steven Teets case. You may have heard of it: an early morning attack by an intoxicated man on a Forest Grove family s home last Oct. 31. ....
April 02 2021 After her house was attacked, one woman works to protect her family and learn basic facts about their attacker. Part 2 of a series Shortly before 1 a.m. last Oct. 31, Mirella Castaneda and Pablo Weimann awoke to the alarm blaring from their Ram pickup in the driveway. The Forest Grove couple lives with their 13-year-old son, 11-year-old daughter, two foster sons, 13 and 16, and Castaneda s mother, due west of downtown Portland in the Washington County city. Weimann, a construction worker who specializes in finish and tile work, shut off the alarm remotely and lay back down. But when it went off again, Castaneda, an administrative specialist at Washington County s Department of Environmental Health, got out of bed and stuck her head outside the front door, thinking she might see a raccoon. ....
Oregon removes 100-person weekly contact limit for students March 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this March 5, 2020, file photo, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown visits Sitton Elementary School in Portland, Ore. Oregon has removed a 100-person cap on the number of individual contacts students can have per week in a return to in-person classes.Gov. Kate Brown ordered all schools to offer at least some in-person learning for all grades by April 29, 2021, with elementary students phased in first. (Eder Campuzano/The Oregonian via AP, File)Eder Campuzano/AP PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Oregon has removed a 100-person cap on the number of individual contacts students can have per week in a return to in-person classes, a move that should make bringing older students back for in-person learning less of a challenge for school districts. ....