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Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 12 December 2019

Melvin “JR.” Nobles, Jr., Executive Director Friends of the Children—Tacoma

Organization empowers youth facing the greatest obstacles through the long-term support of professional mentors

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 11 December 2019

Max smiles for the camera at OHS, just before going home with Dana and Tony Dunlap (photo courtesy of OHS)

Max, a two-year-old Labrador/Weimaraner mix, is going to a new home with the Dunlap family of Damascus

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 09 December 2019

States estimate $190 million for wastewater, $35 million for drinking water projects in Oregon, and $120 million for wastewater, $22 million for drinking water projects in Washington

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 05 December 2019

Watch video of a silverspot caterpillar transform into a chrysalis. (photo courtesy of Oregon Zoo's website)

The Oregon Zoo's breeding success provides new hope in an effort to save Oregon silverspots

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 05 December 2019

Meier & Frank holiday display (courtesy of Oregon Historical Society)

This free Oregon Historical Society event will be held this Sunday, December 8 from 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 05 December 2019

Those who come to give through Dec. 18 will receive a $5 Amazon.com Gift Card

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 03 December 2019

Workers prepare to remove a Confederate statue from its granite pedestal by the Chatham County courthouse in Pittsboro, N.C. early Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019. (Scott Sharpe/The News & Observer via AP)

Lawyers argued that the monument was installed at the end of Reconstruction to further the false “Lost Cause” narrative, celebrate White supremacy and send a message to African Americans that they did not enjoy the equal protection of the law

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 25 November 2019

Hobbs Waters will be discussing his solo exhibit “Thirteen” at The Armory in Portland

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 21 November 2019

Colleen Ecohawk, Chief Seattle Club speaks on We Are In video on wearein.org.

We Are In is a diverse collective of partners in nonprofit work and services, business, philanthropy, and people who have experienced homelessness.

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 20 November 2019

809 Oregonians died as a result of an opioid-related drug overdose between 2015-2017

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