KTOWN BRINGS KOREAN BBQ TO BEAVERTON

KTOWN BRINGS KOREAN BBQ TO BEAVERTON

Chris Bae and his wife Mira opened their third restaurant on Lombard in Beaverton just one week ago and already the joint is jumping.  No surprise really since they are combining two popular cuisines:  BBQ and Korean food. The most popular item on the menu...
MICHAEL WONG – INVESTING IN COMMUNITY

MICHAEL WONG – INVESTING IN COMMUNITY

​​​​“What good is a newspaper in this day and age?”  The question comes from a surprising source.  Michael Wong, the managing editor of the Beaverton Resource Guide, the Beaverton Farmers Market Vendor Guide, and the jazz publication, Blue Notes, has spent a...
GLAMOUR ON 1ST STREET – ROYAL DESIGNS DAY SPA

GLAMOUR ON 1ST STREET – ROYAL DESIGNS DAY SPA

​​If you have ever wanted to connect with your inner movie star, Carla Hanson (now known to family and friends as Carla Closson since her recent marriage), has the real deal. In her tiny shop on 1st, bearing more than a passing resemblance to a Marilyn Monroe museum,...
BEAVERTON HISTORY DAY-THE MAKINGS OF A CITY

BEAVERTON HISTORY DAY-THE MAKINGS OF A CITY

By Ann Koppy, BHSoc Historian  The road to Beaverton’s incorporation began in the valleys of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers with the great westward migration of the 1840s. Settlers came overland via wagon train or around Cape Horn by ship to the fertile...