After a challenging season during a world pandemic with many changes along the way, The Dalles Riverhawks cheer team won a state championship on Sunday.

Dufur Lady Rangers Go 5-5 In Inaugural Season

It’s not a typical high school project, but little is at Riverbend Community School on the Columbia Gorge Community College Campus. “We get to do projects and work with our hands,” said Blake Darr of the landscape project. “It’s a lot better than reading textbooks all day.”

The Dalles High School basketball season starts next week. I got to talk to the coaches of the men’s and women’s teams today. They gave me a small rundown on their teams and season this year.

Sluggers Give Their Moms the Best Gift: A Championship

Ceramics as well as throwing a little clay will be happening at The Dalles Art Center this Saturday, May 15 as the gallery showcases its market of incredible pieces brought about by a collaboration of local and regional artists. As expected, five local artists were included in Beyond the Construct: Penny Wallace, Yvonne Wakefield, Savannah Lawton, Tom Bottman, and Jonathan Kranzley. While you're at it, check out the incredible flowers and the newly refurbished floor. Gorrrrrrrrgeous!

The Dalles High School’s track team will be attending districts this weekend. In past years the team would bring their varsity team to districts. Their Varsity team is the top 3 athletes at each event and the rest is Junior Varsity. But with sports and the season being complicated because of COVID-19, they’re bringing the whole team. It’s more about giving the kids a good opportunity to get better and make some new PR’s.

At the end of Wednesday, May 12th Wasco County had received 2905 ballots for a 16.05% return rate, according to Wasco County Clerk Lisa Gambee. Voters have until 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 18, to drop off their ballots.

The Dalles High School 2021 Scholarship Recipients

Nana I Ke Kumu seeks to connect seekers to their values, their breath, their spirit, and the tools they need to live happier, healthier, and more fully realized lives through coaching techniques that blend everything from modern psychology, business, sales, and marketing success trainings, to mysticism, yoga, and astrology.

The silence is deafening for some. Two months have passed since the first self-imposed deadline to ink a deal that would bring $1.2 billion in Google investments for two new data centers in The Dalles. So what’s going on?

This past Friday May 7th, the Lady Rangers continue their winning way to go 4-0 on their season record. The Lady’s shot a Team Score of 365 at the Milton-Freewater GC. Men take third.

Regional Airport manager David Rasmussen is set to ask The Dalles City Council to sign a lease agreement for an airplane hanger that will eventually house a community college aviation maintenance program. The meeting is slated to start at 5:30 p.m. tonight, May 10, and is available via ZOOM.

Melissa takes us on a journey of discovering her talent, who inspired her along the way, her path to sobriety, her different take on therapy, and how tragedy released an untapped gift she never knew she had.

Robin Allen is on a mission to make her community a happier and more stylish place. Her new life and styling services fund and soon-to-be show “Stylist for the People”, will gift transformative life styling services to marginalized communities in Oregon, Washington, and California.

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.