News and Events

Tree Ordinance Town Hall May 6 6-8 p.m. (Juanita Pohl Center)

Over the past year, the City of Durham has been working on updating its tree ordinances. The City is holding a Town Hall meeting for citizens to ask questions and to learn more.
The meeting will be on May 6, 2025, at Tualatin’s Juanita Pohl Center, starting at 6 p.m. and will be adjourned no later than 8 p.m.
Durham’s regular meeting of the Planning Commission will also be held at the Juanita Pohl Center on May 6 and will be called to order immediately following the Town Hall meeting.
For more information please call City Hall, 503.639.6851.

Posted on March 26, 2025

April 26 is Bulky Waste Pick Up Day!

April 26, 2025

Please mark your calendars for Pride Disposal’s Bulky Waste Pick Up Day scheduled for Saturday April 26th, 2025!

Click the following link for more information:

Free Bulky Waste Disposal Day 2025 (link coming soon!)

Posted on March 19, 2025

April 26 SOLVE Invasive Removal Event

April 26, 2025

Durham residents, and SOLVE are teaming up to remove invasive plant species from the City’s treed lot located on Upper Boones Ferry Road between SW Rivendell Drive & Willowbottom Way. The event takes place on April 26 from 9 – 11 am. Pride Disposal is donating a drop-box to dispose of the invasive plant material.

For more information, or to sign up for the event, please visit here (link coming soon!).

What to Bring: Please wear closed-toed shoes and weather-appropriate clothing, and bring a backpack for hands-free convenience. Feel free to bring your personal tools if available and a reusable water bottle to support our sustainability efforts.

What’s Provided: Tools and gloves will be available, but it is helpful if you can bring your own gloves, hand saws, and loppers/pruners.  Drinking water containers will be available.

Restrooms: No public restrooms are available

Posted on March 19, 2025

Ladybug 5k/10k 7.19.2025

July 19, 2025

Approximately 200 participants will take part in the Ladybug 5k/10k run through Durham Park on July 19, 2025 from 7:00 a.m. – noon. Participants will be running around the dog off-leash triangle plus around the loop trail.

To learn more about this event raising awareness and funds for CDH research, please visit ladybugrun.com.

Posted on February 21, 2025

Heart to Start 5k/10k – Feb 22/25

February 22, 2025

Approximately 1,000 participants will take part Providence’s Heart Institute’s  Heart to Start 5k/10k timed running race.

Participants will pass through Durham Park and be running around the dog off-leash triangle plus around the loop trail between 5:00 a.m. – noon on February 22nd, 2025.

Posted on February 11, 2025

United PDX 5K Fun Run – June 7/25

June 7, 2025

Approximately 150 participants will take part in the United PDX 5 k Fun Run to bring together the community and celebrate healthy lifestyle choices.

Participants will pass through Durham Park and be running around the dog off-leash triangle plus around the loop trail between 7:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. on June 7th, 2025.

Posted on February 7, 2025

Emergency Preparedness Presentation 3pm Feb. 8 (FREE)

February 8, 2025

Durham resident & Tualatin CERT, Barbara Bracken, is hosting this event at the Tualatin Library from 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. on February 8th, 2025

Topics covered includes:

What to assemble in a Go Bag, prepare for communication challenges, tips to prepare your home, how & when to shut off utilities, fire safety etc. 

Please attend, tell your neighbors & friends-we’ll have giveaways, handouts & demonstrations. Space is limited. Registration is requested:

https://www.tualatincert.org/tualatin-ready

Posted on January 22, 2025

Christmas Tree Recycling

January 12, 2025

BSA Troop 423 & 218 of Tigard, Oregon

Christmas Tree Recycling

It’s that time of year again! Our Troop would love to pick up and recycle your tree this season in the area! You may also deliver your tree to our recycling site at Cook Park. All trees will be chipped and the compost spread locally on the trails at Cook Park. Please register for this year’s tree recycling program by visiting our website (www.bsatroop423and218.org)  or clicking here!

Tree pickup is offered on Dec 29th, Jan 4th, Jan 5th, Jan 11th, and Jan12th. You may also drop off your trees on those days at Cook Park between 9am – 4pm.

For any questions about boundaries for pick up please email
[email protected]

We do not accept flocked trees.

Posted on December 31, 2024

Turkeython in Durham Park

November 28, 2024

On Thanksgiving morning, from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM, approximately 400 participants will take place in the Turkeython run. Participants of this family friendly 5 k.m. fun run will pass through Durham Park along the trail adjacent to the dog off-leash triangle, heading north around the Schirado Nature Loop trail.

Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on November 13, 2024

October 1st Planning Commission Meeting Held @ Juanita Pohl Center

October 1, 2024

Oct 24 PC Mtg Juanita Pohl Center

The October 1st Planning Commission meeting will be held at the Juanita Pohl Center – Dining Room, which can accommodate more members of the public than Durham City Hall. At the October 1st meeting, Durham’s Tree Committee will present its’ work to the Planning Commission.

The meeting start time is 7:30pm.

The Juanita Pohl Center is located at 8513 SW Tualatin Rd, Tualatin, OR 97062.

For more information on the Juanita Pohl Center, please visit: https://www.tualatinoregon.gov/recreation/juanita-pohl-center-0

Posted on September 12, 2024

November 2nd Invasive Plant Removal Event

November 2, 2024

Durham residents and SOLVE are teaming up to remove invasive plant species from the City’s treed lot located on Upper Boones Ferry Road between SW Rivendell Drive & Willowbottom Way. The event takes place on November 2nd from 9 – 11 am. Drop boxes, to dispose of the invasive plant material, will be provided by Pride Disposal.

For more information, or to sign up for the event, please visit here.

What to Bring: Please wear closed-toed shoes and weather-appropriate clothing, and bring a backpack for hands-free convenience. Feel free to bring your personal tools if available and a reusable water bottle to support our sustainability efforts.

What’s Provided: Tools and gloves will be available, but it is helpful if you can bring your own gloves, hand saws, and loppers/pruners.  Drinking water container will be available.

Restrooms: No public restrooms are available

Posted on September 11, 2024

2024 City Council Election: Candidate Update

November 30, 2024

Eligible voters in Durham will elect 4 new City Council members on November 5th, 2024. The three candidates running for the three 4-year term City Council positions are: Leslie Gifford (incumbent), Gary Paul (incumbent) and David Streicher. The one candidate running for the one unexpired 2-year term City Council position is Sean Lee. Durham’s newly elected City Councilor members will be sworn in at the January 2025 City Council meeting.

Posted on August 28, 2024

Project Complete – Ki-a-Kuts Bike & Pedestrian Bridge Maintenance

September 21, 2024

The Ki-a-Kuts Bike and Pedestrian Bridge maintenance project is now complete.

The City of Durham and its’ bridge partners thank you for your patience and cooperation as we work to keep this bridge a key community connection for decades to come.

Posted on August 6, 2024

Tualatin Emergency Preparedness Fair Sept 7 Noon-4pm

September 7, 2024
The fair is family-friendly, admission-free, and is sponsored by the Tualatin Library, the City of Tualatin and the Tualatin Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), a community of volunteers focused on preparing the citizens, families, neighborhoods, and employees in the Tualatin area for emergency and disaster situations.
The fair offers an opportunity to gather with your neighbors for a day filled with fun and information so both children and adults can learn more about emergency preparedness.
The first 200 attendees will receive a CERT “Be Ready” Go Bag from our Welcome Booth to fill up with goodies from our numerous exhibitors! You could also win one of our fabulous gift baskets that have been graciously donated by local businesses. Make sure to fill out a ticket to enter the prize drawing at the Welcome Booth. (Need not be present to win.) Fair visitors will enjoy more than 25 vendor and exhibitor booths that will help educate about preparedness, have informational handouts, safety items for sale and many will have free giveaways.
Come out for an entertaining day and visit your favorite exhibitors including Mud Bay Pets, GoStayKits, OSU Extension, Tualatin Girl Scouts, Books On Wheels and Quake Up. The City of Tualatin, Washington & Clackamas Counties,Tualatin CIOs, Tualatin and Cedar Hills Neighborhood Ready and the local utilities will all have information booths as well. And there are many, many more.
It’s easy to take a quick break from the Emergency Fair and grab some drinks or snacks from the adjoining Nyberg Rivers Shopping Center, while you check out a variety of Tualatin City and Utility vehicles in the library parking lot that may include: TVF&R fire trucks, police cars and motorcycles, dump trucks and a bulldozer. Stop by and see the CERT Ham & GMRS Radio Team with their solar-powered station and learn about what they do to ensure that the Tualatin Amateur Radio Network will keep lines of communication open in the face of any disaster.
Inside the library, you can peruse the many exhibitor booths in the air-conditioned Community Room or on the patio. There will also be educational videos streaming throughout the day inside the library Fireplace Meeting Room. The Library Maker Space will be offering a free STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) project that visitors can create and take home. The American Red Cross will have a preparedness workshop for kids.
To learn more about the fair or if you are interested in being an exhibitor or donating to the prize drawing, visit https://www.tualatincert.org/.
Posted on August 5, 2024

2024 City Council Elections

August 27, 2024

On November 5th, 2024, Durham residents will elect three (3) City Councilors to a four year term and one (1) City Councilor for the remainder of a two year unexpired term. If you are interested in running for Durham City Council, please read the “2024 City Council Election Information” and “Councilor Candidate Filing Guidelines” links below.

Please contact City Staff at (503) 639.6851 if you are interested in running for City Council.

2024 City Council Election Information

Councilor Candidate Filing Guidelines

Posted on July 29, 2024

City Tree Work

The City of Durham performed maintenance to City parks and property from June 24-26th. The work came at the advice of the City’s arborist, SavATree.
The focus of the work was to reduce dead or dying trees from City property adjacent to paths and public rights of way that posed a hazard to life and property. Nine trees were felled or removed from the City’s treed lot on Upper Boones Ferry Road. One of the firs had a cow-pie fungus and a number of others had advanced Echinodontium tinctorium, making them unstable. Where possible, the City asked that the dead trees be cut into habitat poles.
At Durham Park, a significant Ash was removed because it was identified as being diseased and a hazard to the nearby bridge and walking path. Other hazards identified at the park include a cottonwood adjacent to the Schirado Nature loop, one trunk of a multi-trunk maple tree adjacent to the main path and some diseased birch trees along the park entrance. The City also had pruning work done to beech trees along one property line and over-top park structures, as well as pruning deadwood from a large atlas cedar.
Posted on July 1, 2024