Popular arts-and-crafts chain Hobby Lobby opened its first store in the Portland area over the weekend and is hosting a formal grand opening Monday.

The new store is in a former Sports Authority location at Southeast Sunnyside Road and Southeast 84th Avenue in Clackamas. Sports Authority shut down nationwide in 2016.

Hobby Lobby's first Oregon store opened in 2014, in Albany. It now has four Oregon locations, in Bend, Springfield, Albany and Salem.

The Oklahoma-based chain made national headlines four years ago when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby in a case that found the government cannot compel companies to pay insurance coverage for contraception if those businesses' owners have religious objections.

-- The Oregonian/OregonLive