By Teresa Carson, The Gresham Outlook
September 7, 2018
There were lots of new backpacks, shrieks of joy upon greeting friends, nervous smiles and even a few tears around the kindergarten classrooms as students in East Multnomah County headed back to classrooms this week.
While most students returned for the 2018-19 school year on Tuesday Sept. 4, kids attending the new Wilkes, Troutdale and Fairview elementary schools opened a day late, on Sept. 5, because much of the furniture for the new schools was tardy in being delivered.