where-we-live

Paul Knauls made ‘The Dream’ a reality in Portland

Paul Knauls, affectionately known as The Mayor of Northeast Portland, January 2023 (KOIN)

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How ‘Louie Louie’ made your Zoom sound good

The Kingsmen album cover featuring "Louie Louie" (Courtesy)

PCC students to learn on Bombardier from Horizon

Horizon and Alaska Airlines donated this Bombardier Q400 to the Portland Community College aviation maintenance technology program, 2022 (PCC)

Where We Live: 100 years of The Sunshine Division

‘Huge honor’: Portlander does cover art for Dr. John

The cover art for Dr. John's last album was done by Portland artist Diane Russell, 2022 (KOIN)

Pioneer Courthouse Square is Portland’s Living Room

People enjoy Pioneer Courthouse Square on the day it opened, April 6, 1984 (KOIN)

Former slave Louis Southworth honored in Waldport

Sculptor Peter Helzer works on a statue of Louis Southworth, to be displayed in Louis Southworth Park in Waldport (City of Waldport)

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Beatrice Morrow Cannady ‘spoke truth to power’

Beatrice Morrow Cannady in an undated courtesy photo provided October 17, 2022

Daimler developing electric trucks in Portland

The next generation of Freightliner trucks are electric vehicles manufactured at Daimler Truck North America, October 2022 (KOIN)

Ritz-Carlton Portland changing more than skyline

A rendering of the exterior of the Ritz-Carlton Portland at SW 9th and Washington, October 2022 (BPM/Ritz-Carlton Residences)

Michelangelo’s The Pieta — in Battle Ground?

A pure silver replica of Michelanagelo's The Pieta, worth $70 million, was created at Foundry Michelangelo in Battle Ground. October 2022 (KOIN)

Raymond Rees Training Center ‘spirit of Nat’l Guard’

(From Left to Right) Maj. Gen. Michael E. Stencel, Adjutant General, Oregon, Mrs. Mary Len Rees, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Raymond F. Rees, Oregon State Senator, Bill Hansell, Oregon State Rep. Greg Smith and Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau pause for a group follow the Christening and Flyover for the renaming ceremony for Raymond F. Rees Training Center,, at the Raymond F. Rees Training Center, Umatilla, Oregon, on Sept. 29, 2022. Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Raymond F. Rees is a retired Oregon Guardsman and served as The Adjutant General, Oregon for more than 16 years, retiring from military service in 2013, and later worked as a civilian as the Deputy Secretary of the Army. (National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs)

FashioNXT puts Portland designers on runway

FashioNXT is one of the premier fashion weeks in the nation and is back in-person in Portland following the pandemic, October 2022 (FashioNXT)

Where We Live: Portland’s role in The Dream Team

The 1992 Dream Team with Coach Chuck Daly. Clyde Drexler of the Portland Trail Blazers is Number 10. (USA Basketball)