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As winter settles into our area, AntFarm’s housing team is working with heightened awareness. The colder months bring additional stress for people already living close to the edge. Bills increase. Missed hours on a paycheck carry more weight. Transportation becomes more complicated. Firewood runs out sooner than expected. When maintaining basic necessities is already unstable, winter has a way of magnifying every vulnerability. Housing instability in smaller communities like

Sandy Police Department hosted Shop With a Cop at the Sandy Fred Meyer on Saturday December 6th, where they shopped with 30 local kids. These kids are nominated by the Oregon Trail School District, local organizations, and SPD officers. Each kid is given a $125 budget to spend on gifts for themselves or loved ones. Officers escort the kids around the store, helping them shop. After the gifts are purchased, a group of volunteers wrap each gift.  Officer Quentin Carter: This is

Place of birth: Bay Area, California How long have you lived in Sandy: 7.5 years  If you were not brought here as a child, what brought you to the area: The usual, love. Now we're married with a big family.  Profession: In-house Micro baker, Rui's Bake Shop  Other professions: Stay at home mom Favorites: Movie/and or Musical: You've Got Mail , and Hamilton , the musical Actress and Actor: I don't necessarily have a favorite actor, I do however have a favorite character

The Hull Foundation and Learning Center in Sandy, Oregon is a retreat center for the blind, a place where our guests with sight loss and blindness can go to a home away from home to relax, renew, and enjoy many activities matched to the season or subject of the retreat or seminar.  Our Winter Holiday Getaway started on December 8 th  and ended on December 12 th . Our guests are spending their time at the foundation playing holiday games, listening to Christmas music, and visi

As 2025 comes to a close, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the year and share just a handful of the City of Sandy’s accomplishments. There were many successes throughout the year, as well as continued challenges that our community will work to overcome in the upcoming year. The year started off with the City Council adopting a new set of goals for the 2025-2027 biennium. Following the adoption of the goals, staff worked to develop a two-year budget to meet those goals

*sponsored by MAECO When a lot of people think of Sandy Community Action Center, they think of the woman at the helm: Kirsten Pitzer. Which makes sense, since she’s held the executive director position for the better part of a decade, succeeding Dawn Loomis about 8.5 years ago. Pitzer had a career in education before coming to the Center, and also volunteered in the food pantry for three years before the board encouraged her to apply for the leadership position.  “I liked the

When Mike Hatley founded MAECO (the Mike, Amy and Eileen Company of Oregon) in 1996, he had a vision of using his years of experience and connections in manufacturing to serve small and medium sized businesses in need of an affordable source for parts.  While MAECO specializes in sourcing manufacturers for agricultural and industrial components, like pressure gauges, they can manufacture anything.  Now 30 years later, Hatley's daughter — Amy Hatley-Hardesty — keeps his legacy