News from the West End and immediately surrounding neighborhoods.
Lead in Portland’s Soils Free soil tests for gardeners in Bayside, East Bayside, Parkside, and West End By Tony Zeli There’s plenty of lead in Portland soils. In fact, soil testi... Read more
WENA Urges Neighbors to Weigh In The WENA Board is writing today to alert our West End neighbors and other members of the public who may be unaware of the proposed elimination of the Metro B... Read more
By Tony Zeli The Greater Portland Metro is updating its bus routes and proposing a new bi-directional circulator route for the Portland peninsula. The goal is faster service and greater freq... Read more
WEST END PEOPLE The Rise and Fall of the Pine Street Theatre In the spring of 1988 the building on the corner of Pine and Brackett Streets, which is now Bonobo Pizza, almost became a theatre... Read more
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life By Rosanne Graef Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking Who would have thought that in the midst of a pandemic, with the death knell for print med... Read more
Browntail Moth Reaches Western Prom By Tony Zeli The city’s forestry crews first discovered browntail moth webs on the mainland in Portland in 2018, though the insect was spreading just nort... Read more
Writing for a community paper as the neighborhood reinvents itself By Jenny Anastasoff Twenty years ago, Portland was reinventing itself, not unlike today’s boom. In 2001, when The West End... Read more
Every Month PelotonLabs founder Liz Trice interviews a community member for The West End News. This month Liz caught up with Kate Sykes, a community organizer with People First Portland abou... Read more
WEN survives despite the decline of print media By Tony Zeli When I took over The West End News in 2014, I’m sure a lot of folks thought I was being foolish. A common question was, “Why a ne... Read more
Save the 8 – METRO proposes changes to the Peninsula Loop
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life By Rosanne Graef Save the 8! Bus riders who travel the peninsula are undoubtedly familiar with Metro’s Route 8, a.k.a. the Peninsula Loop.... Read more