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Lyle Coffee: This Veteran Owned Cafe Has a Heart for Local Flavors and Faces

Lyle Coffee is an unexpected delight from start to finish, built inside Lyle’s Old Post Office (1950) on Hwy 14 and 5th Street, Lyle Coffee pairs French Quarter aesthetic and southern hospitality with delicious locally roasted French press coffee, carefully curated pastries and a punk rock playlist filled with girl power bands like Le Tigre and Bikini Kill that are sure to get your morning off to a roaring good start. 

Google going great guns; here comes another one

Contractors at the new Google data center site were busy this afternoon, Nov. 28. The walls for the first of two data centers were erected for the first 288,000-square-foot facility months ago. Google’s contractor Whiting-Turner has now submitted a second request to site and construct the second data center at 290,000 square feet to the City of The Dalles planning department.

Bingen making moves to get ahead of short-term rentals; law goes into effect in 2025

“A lot of cities are finding that they are overrun with STRs, and they have to establish limits because they haven’t planned accordingly, and we did not want to be in that position,” Krista Loney said. This ordinance will limit the number of STRs/vacation rentals allowed in the city to 32 units or 10 percent of the existing housing stock, whichever is less.

Contract losses at Landfill blow hole in Klickitat County Budget

A second round of contract losses forces Klickitat County into budget crunch as dollars from Landfill dwindle. When asked about the reasons for the contract losses, Steve Gilmore, media representative for Republic Landfill Services, attributed the losses to a competitive market. “It's going to get exceedingly more difficult to pass a budget in the coming years,” Commissioner Jake Anderson said. ”The landfill has been our savior and saving grace for the last 30 years…