Eureka 4870GZ Boss Smart-Vac Upright Vacuum Eureka vacuums are designed to clean and protect tile and sealed hardwood floors in your home. They have deluxe bare floor brushes designed to smoothly glide across your floor while picking up more dust and debris in corners and along baseboards than regu Customer Review: Awesome!!!! Pets, […]

Ashland candlelight vigil to replace same-sex registrations
ASHLAND — Some Ashland-area residents who had planned to register as same-sex domestic partners today now will attend a candlelight vigil at a local church tonight instead. For one couple from Talent, it was their second major setback. A federal…

Hillsboro cops arrest 35-year-old who met 15-year-old runaway online
The Hillsboro Police Department announced this afternoon that it arrested 35-year-old Robert Earl Hogan for third-degree rape involving a 15-year-old runaway from Southern California. Courtesy of Hillsboro Police DepartmentBooking photos of Robert Earl Hogan. On Sunday night, police went to…

Analysis: Sten decision isn’t a complete shock
By Anna Griffin The Oregonian To anyone who follows Portland politics, Erik Sten’s decision to leave office barely halfway through his fourth term isn’t a complete shock. Sten, once the City Council’s boy wonder and now its longest-serving member, has…

Washington emerging as hub for clean technology
SEATTLE — A report ranks Washington fourth in the nation in venture capital going to clean technology. Many startups are headed by former software executives. They include V2 Green, a Seattle company that makes technology for plug-in vehicles; Bionavita, a…

Portland Commissioner Erik Sten will step down
Sten’s decision, effective April 1, means at least two new people will sit on the five-member council next year Previous coverage

Man dies after shooting at New Year’s Eve party in NE Portland
A 25-year-old man died after being shot at a New Year’s Eve party in Northeast Portland . Christopher Adam Monette apparently was killed just before midnight after a fight in the 8400 block of Northeast Thompson Street, the Portland Police…

Wednesday forecast: windy and wet
The first few days of 2008 are going to feel a lot like the last few of 2007: wet. Rain’s on tap for Wednesday, especially in the morning. The forecast calls for wind gusts up to 24 mph. Daytime temperatures…

Central Oregon Home Inspection
When you are about to make, what will likely be the largest purchase of your life, you can’t afford not to have your dream home whether new or pre-owned inspected. Central Oregon Home Inspections, established 1995, was founded on the belief that every home inspection should be conducted in a thorough and professional manner as […]

Realtors: Inspecting home inspectors
Realtors: Inspecting home inspectors by Gil Strachan Examining the quality and consistency of home inspections. Province of Ontario, June 2005 Update In real estate transactions, some things never change. Sellers usually feel theyve given their house away, buyers believe theyve paid too much and Realtors fear neither side will ever get to the closing table. There is however, […]

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