Inside our Farmers Markets: Entrepreneurs creating flavor, art, local prosperity
Every dollar spent at a farmers market helps fuel the local economy while supporting the farmers, bakers, artists, and craftspeople who make the Gorge unique. Discover why these vibrant community markets are worth celebrating—and shopping.
Mental Health crisis creates vicious local circle; most vulnerable left adrift
The ability to monitor and house people with mental imbalances has been “ripped out of the communities at a local level by the state and never been restored.” As a result, people are breaking down on city streets. They’re breaking laws, impacting the economy, and have local leaders flummoxed as the State of Oregon has failed to fund their treatment.