French’s Farm in Lyle is celebrating the Spring season with the last weekend of their Spring plant sale on May 7th-9th from 9AM-5PM!

Chelsea Albin of Rivertap shows off a fresh bandaid at Rivertap This morning, May 7. The bar as well as Freebridge Brewing, Bargeway Pub and Sunshine Mill are participating in a mobile vaccination against COVID-19 this evening, Friday, May 7. Participants earn $10 in token to go toward food. Herd immunity just got tasty!

UPDATED MAY 7th, 2021 to include comment from Wasco County Republican Committee Chair Betsy Hege “I put together a list of Republican candidates that were running and that list ended up on our website,” said Hege. “I deeply regret it because of what happened.”

Port of TD Candidate John Willer endorsed Frank Polehn for a CGCC Board Position earlier this month on Facebook and is now retracting the statement since learning Polehn was convicted of attempted sex abuse in the first degree. “I had no idea who that guy was,” Willer said this morning in a brief conversation. Willer said he will release a full statement to CCCNews on the matter later today, Thursday, May 6.

Riverfront living is starting to catch on in The Port of The Dalles. And maybe riverfront working is too. With townhouses upstairs and commercial space downstairs, developers are tapping into a new age of work and play. And It may soon define how we think of Riverfront Trail west.

Bipartisan legislation proposed with “Bring them home bill”

However the wait may simply be too long for some, especially seniors.

The spring winds pack a punch in the Gorge.

Tony’s Town & Country may be gone. But the legends live on, and Tony Foote is in the center of them. Foote found customer service in wheeling and dealing and creating a little action around everything he did. Would he be sorry if the store is eventually leveled. Nah, he had his time.

In this week’s column, I give advice on how to dress with confidence despite your insecurities and how your Spring cleaning can easily turn into giving back to our communities!

Clyde Rosa and Barry Springer move a table outside at Mama Janes this afternoon, Thursday, April 29. A high-risk rating for COVID-19 in Wasco County triggered the elimination of indoor dining starting tomorrow, Friday, April 30.

To help you select our future community leaders, CCCNews has reached out to all candidates to get the inside scoop on who is best suited to serve our communities.

With 74 cases of COVID-19 in Wasco County in the most recent 14-day period, and a rapid surge in cases and hospitalizations statewide, the county is one of 15 moving to the extreme risk category on Friday, April 30.

A woman from The Dalles was injured at about 11:20 a.m. this morning when a small four-door sedan collided with her Harley Davidson at the corner of Eighth Street and Kelly Avenue.

Passersby Maria Sandoval and her daughter Eimy, 11, were excited to hear that sidewalks would be receiving ADA ramps. “Anything to help the neighborhood would be nice,” they said.

The Rangers’ inaugural golf season started off with a bang as the Lady Rangers won the team event with a team score of 429.

Oregon’s Secretary of State, Shemia Fagan a product of Dufur and The Dalles High school turned out for the North Central Public Health’s Friday Night Lights mass vaccination for high school students at Wahtonka Field in The Dalles. Fagan compared vaccinations to stacking sandbags in the 1996 flood in The Dalles, both an effort to protect and save our community.

Bill Hardy sat on a blackened gun cabinet and looked into the charred remains of his home. Everything he owned was in that house. Almost. “I still got my sense of humor. It’s all I got left. Couldn't burn that,” he said.

When firefighters arrived at a house fire in Foley Lakes on Wednesday, April 21, they found a double-wide manufactured home with flames coming out the front door and the roof on fire.