Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay For the December 9 monthly meeting we will have our annual holiday social for the Buckman Community Association. We’ll be joined by Representative Rob Nosse […]
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay It’s a very chaotic time in our country right now and the city is under a siege of misinformation. But on the eve of a
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association Board quickly got down to business regarding a new project being planned for our neighborhood. There had been news stories about a proposed
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Monthly meetings resume Thursday, September 11 for the Buckman Community Association. Last month we hosted a very successful 13th Annual Buckman Picnic in the Park.
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Buckman Neighborhood AssociationBy Susan Lindsay The 13th Annual Buckman Picnic in the Park free and fun neighborhood gathering is Sunday, August 3, 3-7 pm at Colonel Summers Park. All are
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay The Buckman Community Association (BCA) Summer Events are here! Thursday, July 17, co-hosted with Portland Parks “Summer for All Programs,” the BCA presents Buckman Movie
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay All aboard! The annual elections for the Board of the Buckman Community Association are upon us! The Board is composed of nine, two-year positions, half
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay The next Buckman Community Association (BCA) meeting will be held Thursday, May 8, 7-9 pm. Join us at 1137 SE 20th Ave. (enter on Salmon
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Hello Buckman Neighbors and Friends! Our next meeting is Thursday, April 10 in person with a hybrid option. Here’s what’s scheduled.Margaret Salazar, CEO of REACH
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Because of snowy weather, the February 13 BCA meeting was canceled. The agenda rolls over to Thursday, March 13, 7-9 pm, with the exception that
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Megan Moyer, the newly elected District 1 County Commissioner, will join the BCA at the February 13 Monthly Meeting. As the County holds the purse
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Buckman Neighborhood AssociationBy Susan Lindsay On December 12 the Buckman Community Association hosted the winners of the recent City Council election—Angelita Murillo, Steve Novick and Tiffany Koyama Lane—as well as
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Thursday evening December 12, 7-9 pm will be the Buckman Community Association’s monthly meeting and our annual holiday meetup! Join us at 1137 SE 20th
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Join the Buckman Community Association Thursday, November 14 for our General Membership meeting. Meetings are held in person at Hinson Church, 1137 SE. 20th Ave.,
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Join the BCA for our fourth and last District 3 candidate Q&A forum at our next monthly meeting, Thursday, October 10. This election will feature
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay The Buckman Community Association meets monthly every second Thursday of the month, 7-9 pm at 1137 SE Salmon St. Enter on SE Salmon St. just
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Sunday, August 4, 4-8 pm, the Buckman Community Association brings the 12th Annual Buckman Picnic in the Park back to Colonel Summers Park, SE 17th
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Over the next several months, the BCA is hosting at our monthly meetings all the candidates for City Commissioner District 3. In June, we met
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Thursday, June 20 is Election Night at the BCA!! We have four open Board positions, each available for a two-year term. The only requirements are
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl Perhaps because downtown is just across the river from us, the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association (HAND) has taken an interest in a large revitalization effort under consideration by
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Board’s March meeting was so busy it kept us overtime. We heard and discussed progress on a brand new school building, a pitch by
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay Please join the Buckman Community Association (BCA) Thursday, March 12, 7 pm, in our new ground floor, ADA accessible, in-person meeting space at Hinson Church,
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association (HAND) Board met January 16 via Zoom due to severe weather. A report from the group that monitors how the Clinton Triangle (TASS)
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl The Hosford Abernethy Neighborhood District (HAND) Board doesn’t hold a meeting in December unless something urgent comes up. We did, however, enjoy a holiday get-together with friends,
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl Highlights from the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association’s (HAND) November Board meeting included attendees hearing from Jan Zuckerman, representing a group alerting Portland to what would happen in event
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl Darkness has overtaken the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association’s (HAND) monthly meetings on the St. Philip Neri campus. We will have a signboard outside the administrative building where we
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl The agenda for our September meeting was so chock full, we couldn’t get to all the business. Next month we hope for updates on US Rep. Suzanne
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl In a brief August meeting, the Hosford Abernethy Neighborhood Association (HAND) Board voted to approve a Good Neighbor Agreement that includes the Brooklyn Action Corps, Central Eastside
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HANDBy Jill Riebesehl Hot time, summer in the city and there is lots going on. At our Hosford-Abernethy (HAND) July meeting, we agreed to support the Linnton neighborhood’s struggle over
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Buckman Community AssociationBy Susan Lindsay At the June BCA meeting, the Board voted unanimously to support the Alder Map for new Districts and we urge all Buckman residents and our
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl A large number of neighbors attended the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association’s first in-person meeting in three years. It was held in Carvlin Hall on the St. Philip
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Plans are shaping up quickly for a temporary, tiny-house village this summer on a long-neglected open space at SE 19th Ave. just west of New Seasons.
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl City plans call for our neighborhood to host what could be the first of several large encampments for people who are homeless. The Board and other
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Foster-Powell Neighborhood Association By Lisa Kislingbury Anderson Foster Powell recently received a grant from SEUplift and the City of Portland Office of Community & Civic Life to paint a street
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl In response to the fatality last year at SE 26th Ave. and Powell Blvd., Tom Mills, TriMet’s director of mobility planning and policy, attended our January
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Board took a December break, but didn’t lose sight of some ongoing concerns. Two involve situations that lie on our borders: the river
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Serious discussion of community involvement dominated the November meeting of Hosford Abernethy NA’s Board and neighbors. Top of our list was working out how to proceed
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Hosford-Abernethy is a neighborhood of contrasts, from St. Phil Neri to a Buddhist temple; customer-owned Peoples Co-op to giant New Seasons; tree-lined streets to three main
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Fall is here, schools are finally back in full session, and we have a handful of issues to attend to in our neighborhood. At the September
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Montavilla Neighborhood Association By Jacob Loeb The Montavilla Neighborhood Association (MNA) skipped the August meeting to give members a summer break and Board members a rest after a successful showing
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl At the July meeting of the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association, Board members and others in attendance moved their attention to the city as a whole. Coming up
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The Board of the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood asked Paul Leistner, who has long been involved in citizen participation in Portland for a brief history. He said we
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl At our upcoming annual May meeting, the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association (HAND) is inviting our neighbors to hear about and share tentative plans for a tiny house
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Buckman Community Association By Susan Lindsay The Buckman Community Association will host a public Candidate Forum virtually Thursday, April 14, 7 pm. All candidates for Multnomah County Chair and Portland
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Buckman Community Association By Susan Lindsay At this month’s BCA meeting, developers of a 12-story apartment complex slated for SE 9th Ave. and SE Sandy Blvd., and a new housing
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Every 10 years, Portland looks anew at its charter (in many ways like the Constitution) under which the city is organized. Julia Meier is Portland’s project
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Buckman Community Association By Susan Lindsay The Buckman Community Association will meet Thursday, January 13, 7-9 pm. We meet on Zoom, so email us anytime for the link and password
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Buckman Community Association By Susan Lindsay Buckman Community Association, buckmanpdx.org, meets Thursday, December 9, 7-9 pm virtually. Contact BCA anytime at buckmanboard@googlegroups.com for the link or to bring any item
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Buckman Community Association By Susan Lindsay The Buckman Community Association will deviate ever so slightly in November and meet Thursday, November 18, 7 pm. This is due to the national
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Buckman Neighborhood Association By Susan Lindsay Buckman Community Association meets the second Thursday of the month, 7-9 pm. Currently we are meeting virtually, as our regular meeting hall, the Multnomah
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association Board had planned to reconvene in-person meetings in September, but will review that decision given the rise of the new delta COVID-19
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Pressing business for the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association was a request to sign onto a petition initiated by the Linnton Neighborhood, and joined so far by more
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl At its June meeting, the Hosford-Abernethy Board heard from two Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) departments, the group that is re-striping and repaving Hawthorne Blvd, and
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association held what might be one of its last Zoom board meetings on May 18. We discussed the situation and decided to wait
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Within Hosford Abernethy Neighborhood Association’s boundaries lie Ladd’s Addition, Colonial Heights, the Central Eastside Industrial District, OMSI and various and assorted small-businesses, renters, homeowners and people
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Three main issues dominated Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association’s concerns this winter, none of which required action from the board, which holds elections in May. All are welcome
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The Hosford-Abernethy board met this chilly, snowy month via Zoom and held wide-ranging conversations on our neighborhood’s needs and problems, such as how we can best
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Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association By Jill Riebesehl The HAND Board has a long hiatus over the holidays, but we anticipate interesting challenges in the coming year. It looks as if Catholic
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl At the HAND Board’s November meeting, it was all action. We celebrated the opening of the Gideon Overcrossing, voted to support Quiet Clean PDX in its
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Smoky, rain-and-shine September, and digging out of the coronavirus doldrums, our neighborhood, Hosford-Abernethy, along with others should soon be seeing some urban improvements, one being the
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Laying low during COVID-19, in July the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association heard, via Zoom, from TriMet regarding progress on the Division Transit Project. The agency has kept
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Montavilla Neighborhood Association By Louise Hoff Montavilla Neighborhood Association Board successfully held a virtual general meeting this month and hopes to do the same on September 14, 6:30 pm. Rachel
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl Although our neighborhood, like most in our town these days, has been going through a sea of changes with a Black Lives Matter family-focused demonstration on
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HAND By Jill Riebesehl The board of the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association met in April using Zoom under the auspices of SE Uplift. We shared how we were faring during these
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By Brian Hochhalter Due to the coronavirus crisis, the RNA has cancelled all meetings until further notice. Please check the RNA’s website for information on meetings. To be added to
By Brian Hochhalter & Allen Field The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on Monday, February 10. Portland Police Sargent Sam Ajir described a renewed effort by the Police
By Brian Hochhalter The Richmond Neighborhood Association (richmondpdx.org) convened Monday, November 11 at Waverly Heights Church. Allen Field discussed an updated Good Neighbor Agreement (GNA) between the RNA and Salt
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By Brian Hochhalter Richmond Neighborhood Association (richmondpdx.org) held its monthly meeting October 14. In addition to general housekeeping issues and committee reports, we hosted a Pro & Con presentation by
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By Peter Forrest Richmond Neighborhood Association (richmondpdx.org) held its monthly meeting September 9, at Waverly Heights Church, 33rd/Woodward St. Meetings are held in the basement; enter from the east-side
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By Allen Field Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on August 12, at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd/Woodward St. RNA meetings are held in the basement; enter
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By Claire Cofsky Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on July 8 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd/Woodward St. Meetings are held in the basement – enter from
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By Kamal Belkhayat and Allen Field Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on June 10. The meeting started with an orientation for new board members. Board member’s fiduciary
By Brian Hochhalter The Richmond Neighborhood Association held our annual Richmond Spring Clean-up on May 18. We filled four dumpsters of refuse, recycled styrofoam & metal, held a U-Price
By Allen Field Richmond Neighborhood Association held its April meeting on at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. Meetings are held the second Monday of the month
By Matt Otis Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting Monday, October 8 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and SE Woodward St. Susan Beal reported on the
By Susan Beal Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting Monday, September 10 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and SE Woodward St. Vice Chair Kat West started
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By Allen Field The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on May 15, 2018 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. RNA meetings are
By Rob Mumford RNA held its monthly meeting this past April 9 at Waverly Heights Congregational United Church. Our Annual Richmond Clean-up is Saturday May 19 at Central Christian
By Brendon Haggerty The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its March meeting on Monday March 12. The board moved to provide input on the City of Portland’s Better Housing by
By Lauren Scher and Allen Field The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on Monday, February 12, 2018 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and SE Woodward St.
Richmond Neighborhood Association By Adam Meltzer The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on January 8, 2018 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and SE Woodward St. RNA
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By Brian Hochhalter The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on December 11, 2017 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. RNA meetings are held in
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By Jessica Gillard At Richmond Neighborhood Association’s monthly meeting, the board approved a letter drafted by the Board Chair Erik Matthews to city police and other officials notifying them
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By Susan Beal The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on October 9 from 7-9 pm at Waverly Heights Church, SE 33rd and Woodward Street. Meetings are normally
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By Rob Mumford The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on September 11 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. RNA meetings are held in the
By Jonathan King Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting August 14 at Waverly Heights Church. Sheila Parrott, Program Specialist at PBOT, gave an update on Lincoln-Harrison Greenway improvements
By Heather Flint Chatto Richmond Neighborhood Association (richmondpdx.org) held its monthly meeting July 10 at Waverly Heights Church, SE 33rd and Woodward St. Crime Prevention/Safety – Hot weather reminder to
By Brendon Haggerty The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its May meeting on May 8th. The board moved to request that the city exercise its option to purchase land
By Allen Field The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on April 9 at Waverly Heights Church, SE 33rd and Woodward St. The RNA’s representative to SE Uplift
By Allen Field The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting October 10, at Waverly Heights Church, SE 33rd and Woodward St. RNA meetings are held in the church basement.
By Elizabeth Clarkson Williams Richmond Neighborhood Association September topics were updates on the Clinton St. Diverters, Tree Richmond planting deadlines, outcomes of the Safety Solutions meeting, the Chair’s report
By Greg Petras Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting April 11 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. Matt Gough from BES updated the RNA on
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By Elisabeth Varga Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting Monday, March 14, at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. This month’s meeting focused on Committee Reports.
By Tom McTighe, Andrew Wilkins, and Erik Matthews Richmond Neighborhood Association had a busy holiday season. At a special session November 30, we discussed Portland Public Schools Redistricting Proposal. Neighbors’
By Cyd Manro The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on November 9 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. The deadline to register for the
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By Callie Jones The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on October 12, at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. RNA meetings are held every second
By Laura Smith Though it’s a year away, the date has been set for the 2016 Mt. Tabor Neighborhood Cleanup again a co-sponsored event with North Tabor Neighborhood Association. Mark
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By Alan Kessler The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on September 14 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. Recall Election: The main point of
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By Megan Light The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its monthly meeting on August 10 at Waverly Heights Church at SE 33rd and Woodward St. A Good Neighbor Agreement (GNA) has
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