On February 13, 2014, Portland General Electric (PGE) asked the Oregon Public Utility Commission to approve price increases in 2015 to pay for two new power plants when they go into service next year. This request for a potential overall price increase of 4.6 percent is the first step in a 10-month review process with [...]
Youth ages 14 to 21 are invited to explore career fields by attending the Youth Career Expo at Clackamas Community College on Thursday, February 27, from 8:30am to noon in Randall Gym. This event is scheduled in conjunction with the 36th Annual Clackamas Regional Skills Competition, also taking place on February 27. CCC has partnered [...]
Student financial debt is a growing problem in the United States. Americans now owe more than $1 trillion in student financial debt, surpassing credit card debt. Undergraduate borrowers who graduated in 2012 owed on average $29,400 in debt, a 25 percent increase from just four years earlier. At the same time, the default rate on [...]
February 27 - March 9 Winter Term Theater Production: 'Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom' CCC's Theatre Arts Department presents "Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom," written by Jennifer Haley and directed by Jim Eikrem. Shows are scheduled Feb. 27-March 9, Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m. in the Osterman Theatre. [...]
Turnover and persistent vacancies at the management level have contributed to organizational problems at the Oregon Office of Emergency Management A new state audit found that Oregon might not be fully prepared to recover from a major disaster because of insufficient planning and organizational problems at the Office of Emergency to Management. The incomplete emergency [...]
Clackamas Repertory Theatre returns for its 10th anniversary season, featuring an American classic, a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, and the area premiere of a 2011 Broadway hit. The season was formally announced during the theater company’s fundraiser on February 1. The 2014 season begins June 27 with the 1939 comedy “The Philadelphia Story,” by Philip [...]
There was a time when the Clackamas Community College (CCC) cable access channel provided telecourse lectures for students to watch at home. With the growth of distance learning via computer, the days of telecourses are a thing of the past. Today the college’s cable access channel provides a showcase for the work of students studying [...]
Oregon City is re-imagining the site of the former Blue Heron Paper Mill for the future. Thousands of area residents have taken part in discussions and surveys about the future of the site, which served for many years as the industrial center of the region. Clackamas Community College (CCC), a key resource for education and [...]
Jennifer Haley’s “Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom” is the CCC Theatre Arts Department’s winter term Mainstage Production, opening February 27 in the Osterman Theatre at Clackamas Community College (CCC). The Samuel French Catalogue describes the play: “In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The [...]
Clackamas County Commissioners indicated Tuesday that they will negotiate changes to a proposed contract for countywide ambulance service from American Medical Response (AMR) and move toward approving the contract later this month. The decision, which has the support of three Commissioners, followed a public announcement by Commissioner Jim Bernard that he has withdrawn his opposition [...]