Category: NPB News
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KATU-TV: Park Safety Concerns Heard by Mayor Hales
By Emily Sinovic, KATU News Reports Sept 1, 2015 PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Mayor Charlie Hales met on Tuesday with a group of community leaders and concerned North Park Blocks neighbors who gathered to address concerns for safety and livability in the city’s historic park. The mayor’s office called today’s meeting more of a “listening session.”
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KATU-TV: Park Safety Concerns Cloud School Opening
Here’s the latest report from Jackie Labrecque, KATU News Published: Aug 29, 2015 Aug 25th KATU report here PORTLAND, Ore. — Parents whose kids attend the Emerson School in North Park Blocks are joining in the chorus of concerned voices for all the crime happening there: People camping out, doing drugs, and having sex all in…
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Take Back the Block: Emerson School Picnic – Aug 27th
The folks at the Emerson School have extended this invite for the neighborhood to join them tonight Thurs Aug 27th “I wanted to put out the information that The Emerson School is having our Back To School Picnic tonight, on the playground block, with ~100 families and children coming to play and take over the…
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Mayor Hales – What’s the Plan?
After ignoring the summer’s invasion of traveling gangs into the North Park Block, the city surrounded one park block (between Burnside and Couch) with barbwire-topped chainlink fencing to cordon off the block from all public use. Not surprisingly the gangs moved across the street to the playground block in front of the Emerson school. The…
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North Park Blocks Stalker
North Park Block neighbors are warned to be on the lookout for this man. Email from a North Park Block’s business owner August 24, 2015: On Monday night after departing my office my husband and I were stalked by a young man under the influence. He wanted money, then asked for my phone so he could…