The cr-apartment builder who was planning to knock down two grand old homes on Hawthorne Boulevard in Portland has sold one of them to a local couple for a dollar. They moved it to a nearby lot that they own, and are trying to figure out exactly what to do next. Restoring it to single-family housing is not in the cards, however -- they're planning to redo it as a multiplex.

The other house has, alas, been demolished. By greedy weasels who will now erect soulless garbage. We're hoping that they find an Indian graveyard, archeological artifacts, hazardous waste, sinkholes, or all of the above.