La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life Big Yellow Taxi By Rosanne Graef Change can be very, very sad and very, very difficult. Especially when it’s needlessly and heedlessly dropped upo... Read more
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life By Rosanne Graef The Importance of Service Everyone’s heard of service and ordinarily thinks of it as doing something for someone or helping som... Read more
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life & Beyond In Times Like These, Always Say Hello By Rosanne Graef & Pamela Shaw On an antique red fire box at the corner of Spring and Cla... Read more
West End’s Clark Street Park gets new equipment, a playhouse, and dinosaur mural By Rosanne Graef One of the West End’s small neighborhood parks gets a gigantic makeover. Welcome... Read more
A Place for Everybody Reiche Community Room Activities are free and open to the public and made possible by dedicated volunteers By Tony Zeli In the 1970s construction began on the Howard C.... Read more
Open positions for CDL drivers could lead to delays in clearing snow on city streets By Tony Zeli As winter storms rage, the Portland Department of Public Works (DPW) must plow and salt over... Read more
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life By Rosanne Graef Happy Trails On the occasion of my hundredth La Vida Local, I’ve decided to take a look back at some o... Read more
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life Encampments at Harbor View Memorial Park? By Rosanne Graef Harbor View Park was built on rubble from the destruction of the Million Dollar Bridg... Read more
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life Singin’ in the Rain By Rosanne Graef This past winter was tough on many plants around the West End. And the spring weather was a wild... Read more



What About Congress Street?
La Vida LocalIrregular Notes on West End Life & Beyond What about Congress Street? By Rosanne Graef Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Hartford, Portsmouth, San Diego, Savannah, Tucson. What do t... Read more