North Wasco County School Board is set to accept a resignation from one of its board members at its regular meeting scheduled for Jan. 20. The board will also hear from student representatives from each school. Sophia Lewis, Rokiah Notbohm, Cesar Alvarez, Hannah Pewitt, Eleanor Young, Omar Mercado Chavarria and Cadence LeAnn Scott are set to speak.

The Dalles High School Athletic Director Billy Brost brings us up to date on all things Riverhawk in this weekly Column. Find out how teams did in last week’s competition and get all the times and dates for basketball, wrestling, swimming, skiing in the week to come.

Parents fighting mask mandates at North Wasco County School District set back by a procedural error in opinion from US District Court in Portland. Jennifer Gunter said they will decide in the next several days on whether to refile the case. US Judge Michael Simon finds little merit in the legal discussion of the case.

A native of Sherman County, Cassie graduated from Columbia Gorge Community College in The Dalles, where she earned her Registered Nurse degree in their nursing program. She continues to be involved at CGCC, teaching future C.N.A.s as Director of the NA1 program. Cassie still lives in Sherman County.

Welcome to Part 4 of the North Wasco County School District 21 Update with Superintendent Dr. Carolyn Bernal. In this installment, we sit down with Bernal to talk about covid-era leadership challenges, staff shortages, and teacher burn out.

In this installment, we sit down with Bernal to talk about strategic planning, NWASCO D21 goals, renaming Colonel Wright Elementary School, the Dual Language Immersion Program, and more.

In this installment of the D21 Superintendent Update we sit down with Dr. Carolyn Bernal to talk about her listening and leadership strategy as a newcomer to the district, dealing with opposing viewpoints on Covid mandates in schools, the circumstances leading up to the recent firing of an unvaccinated employee.

Sometimes calling a snow day is as easy as looking out the window, but more often than not, it is an avalanche of factors that go into making the official call by 5 a.m.

The Dalles High School was placed into a brief lockdown this morning, Jan. 12, after reports of a threat were made from outside of the school.

School Closures for Thursday, Jan. 6

Join Mt. Adams Institute for a Sense of Place lecture on, Native Bees of the Gorge featuring Frances Fischer on January, 12th, 2022, at 7 p.m.

North Wasco County School District just announced it will be closed Tuesday, January 4th, 2022

Sarah Cook is melding her career of advocacy and her expertise in literature and writing to offer locals a chance to refine their writing - any writing. All people have an ignition switch - a voice inside that is fascinating and interesting. Why not share it? Sarah aims to put a flame to that pilot light to get your prose burning a hot blue flame. And it doesn’t have to hurt.

There is a super cool opportunity being offered by the Columbia Gorge Community College’s Creative Writing Club, for students both past and present, to have writing and visual art published.

Our columnist Ryan Lawrence is on winter break, but he is not letting any moss grow. He took a trip to the Fort Dalles Museum and located a 1904 electric car, fire bells, a place where drinks were traded for antlers and more. Take a ride with Ryan through this fact-pact piece in homage to your hometown.

In one stretch of the Delta surge, Dr. Tom Nichol has treated 17 patients in a row for COVID who were unvaccinated. Some of them died. It “was a really hard thing for me to see people marching on to die from this who would have survived if they’d had a vaccine.”

Students who are exposed to COVID are now being allowed to stay in school through a new program that monitors through testing.

Our Winter Reading program has started, and like the Summer Reading, you’ll sign up through the Beanstack app for all of the activity kits for December and January.

Join Mt. Adams Institute for a Sense of Place lecture on, Debris Flows from Mount Adams and Mount Hood featuring Richard Iverson, on November 10th, 2021, at 7 p.m. (doors at 6:30 p.m.) at Columbia Center for the Arts in downtown Hood River*.