Advice for Buyers in the Lake Oswego Housing Market

Love Lake Oswego 5/9 12:00A lovelakeoswego

What does an apple have to do with today’s housing market? Turns out it was the perfect stand-in for a parody on the supply and demand hysteria we see playing out among homebuyers when TikToker Shaun...

Spotlight on Lake Oswego’s Farmers’ Market

Love Lake Oswego 5/2 12:00A lovelakeoswego

Of all the coming attractions of summer in Lake Oswego, the Lake Oswego Farmers’ Market is one of the most anticipated. And with good reason. As you can read in some of my earlier blogs here and here...

7 Things We Are Loving About Lake Oswego in May

Love Lake Oswego 4/25 12:00A lovelakeoswego

What a difference a year makes! While we aren’t out of the COVID woods yet, this May is looking very different from last. Instead of listing events that have been cancelled in this blog, I’m happy to...

Celebrate Arbor Month in Lake Oswego With These Activities

Love Lake Oswego 4/18 12:00A lovelakeoswego

In case you hadn’t noticed, trees are a very big deal in Lake Oswego. We plant them, protect them, line our streets with them, honor them and this month we celebrate them as part of the city’s...

Celebrate Money Smart Week With This Lake Oswego Homebuying Quiz

Love Lake Oswego 4/11 12:00A lovelakeoswego

The week of April 10-17 has been designated as Money Smart Week, a public awareness campaign created by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 2002 to help consumers better manage their personal...

Nurseries In and Around Lake Oswego to Help You Turn April Showers into May Flowers

Love Lake Oswego 4/4 12:00A lovelakeoswego

Warning: Visiting Al s Garden Center may result in a purchase as it did for my wife last spring who couldn t resist these beautiful bellflowers. If April showers bring May flowers, then now is the...

Dirty Underwear Is One of the Five Things We Are Loving About Lake Oswego in April

Love Lake Oswego 3/28 12:00A lovelakeoswego

April is a very special month in Lake Oswego and here are five reasons why: Soil Your Undies Campaign. In conjunction with Earth Day and Arbor Month, the Lake Oswego Watershed Council is inviting Lake...

5 Lessons Being a Homeowner Has Taught Me

Love Lake Oswego 3/21 12:00A lovelakeoswego

In her book, House Lessons: Renovating a Life , author Erica Bauermeister writes, “A house is a quiet partner; you have to listen carefully.” Her insights have given my wife and me cause to look back...

Don’t Believe Everything You Hear About the Lake Oswego Housing Market

Love Lake Oswego 3/14 1:00A lovelakeoswego

When it comes to the Lake Oswego housing market, don’t believe everything you hear. Here are a few rumors currently circulating that need to be fact-checked. EVERYBODY IS MOVING TO TEXAS. Yes, we know...

Good Morning, News: Wrongful Death Settlement Approved for Quanice Hayes' Family, It's March 11...

Portland Mercury 3/11 5:37A Blair Stenvick

by Blair Stenvick A sign from a rally following Quanice Hayes' February 2017 death. DOUG BROWN Good morning, Portland! Grab your coffee—or a two-liter bottle of...

7 Covid-Friendly Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day In and Around Lake Oswego

Love Lake Oswego 3/7 12:00A lovelakeoswego

St. Patrick s Day festivities were the first holiday celebrations to be canceled due to COVID-19 last year. On March 8, 2020, I posted a blog titled 7 Ideas for Celebrating St. Patrick s Day In and...

A Tisket A Tasket, Get Out Your Farmers’ Market Basket: Pilot Market Opens Next Sunday

Love Lake Oswego 2/28 12:00A lovelakeoswego

What could be better than the return of Lake Oswego’s popular Farmers Market? A pilot farmers market located in Lake Grove and debuting next week, Sunday March 7 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.! Yes,...

7 Things We Are Loving About March in Lake Oswego

Love Lake Oswego 2/21 12:00A lovelakeoswego

January brought us the Capitol Siege. February brought us the ice storm. Let’s hope March has better things in store for us here in Lake Oswego. Here are a few activities in and around Lake Oswego to...

Game Plan for Buying a Home in Lake Oswego’s Low Inventory COVID Market

Love Lake Oswego 2/14 12:00A lovelakeoswego

The housing market nationwide is experiencing a shortage of inventory and Lake Oswego is no exception. There were 33 new listings in December, but that was outpaced with the 75 sales that ate up some...

LO Reads Offers Stimulating Lineup of Programs on Racism

Love Lake Oswego 2/7 12:00A lovelakeoswego

Entering its 15 th year of initiating community discussion around the themes of one particular book, the Lake Oswego Reads program has shown its proclivity for asking Lake Oswegans to take a long,...