Feb 19

Feb 19 Suze Riley’s Bold Move in Maupin

Columns, Business, Home Page, Wasco County, The Dalles

To meet Suze Riley is to meet a personality as bold as the dark roast coffee she proudly, passionately and meticulously roasts and retails from her small, but state-of-the-art facility in Maupin, OR.

Feb 16

Feb 16 Riding that Rose Train; Valentine Deliveries in TD off the charts

Tom Peterson

Home Page, Business

Flower Power was on overdrive on Wednesday, Feb. 14 as local vendors raced to keep pace with what appears to be an epic year for love.

Feb 16

Feb 16 Column: Are you Frank or Honest? The difference can be astounding

Donna Henderson

Home Page, Columns

So if you are having difficulty feeling understood by a family member, coworker, or friend, take a look at your own behavior first. Do you focus more on expressing yourself than you do on listening? Is your focus more, that is, on trying to be understood than to understand?

Feb 16

Feb 16 Chenowith Elementary Students Spread Love with Heart Project

North Wasco County School District 21

The Dalles, Wasco County, Home Page, Education

Chenowith Elementary School is spreading love and cheer throughout the community with its annual Hearts Project, a recent annual tradition that allows students to demonstrate and share what love means to them with our community.

Feb 16

Feb 16 Multi-vehicle pileups on I-84, Hwy. 97; Trooper revives overdosed male in TD

Tom Peterson

Home Page

Oregon State Police Troopers were hopping on Thursday, Feb. 15, as wrecks caused by icy conditions and an overdose sent blue lights flashing on Highway 97 and in The Dalles. It all happened within 2 hours.

Feb 15

Feb 15 Photo of the Day: Galentines Day at the Library

Cole Goodwin

The Dalles, Wasco County, Home Page, Positive News

Community members visited The Dalles Wasco County Library on Valentine’s Day to enjoy Italian sodas, and paint a wooden “love” sign.

Feb 15

Feb 15 Bingen Livability: City partners with architecture firm to establish middle housing

Ken Park

Business, Klickitat County, Home Page

The move is the first step in creating additional, land-efficient housing in the community as a shortage in housing stock has gripped the Gorge and the Pacific Northwest generally.

Feb 15

Feb 15 Hood River City Council to Consider Gaza Ceasefire Resolution

Columbia Community Connection

Home Page, Hood River County

The Hood River City Council agreed unanimously to place a resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza on an upcoming agenda for consideration and public testimony. Hood River ministers Rev. Vicky Stifter and Rev. John Boonstra, representing an interfaith coalition, urged the council to endorse the resolution. "Peace must be built on trust and love for humanity without any conditions, where enemies will learn to live side by side," added Houssein Salman after the Feb. 12 City Council meeting. "We must stand for what is right for every country to live in peace without persecution, death, or destruction."

Feb 15

Feb 15 Glenwood Driver Jumps Curb; Hits Two Pedestrians

Ken Park

Home Page, The Dalles, Wasco County, Klickitat County

In an unfortunate accident, a 77-year-old driver from Glenwood was attempting to park her car in front of Everybody's Brewing on Jewett Boulevard in downtown White Salmon, when she ran over the curb and struck two women on Monday, Feb. 12th at about 12:45 p.m.

Feb 14

Feb 14 White Salmon Valley School District Reviews Suicide Prevention Protocol

Ken Park

Education, Home Page, Klickitat County

In what White Salmon Valley School District Superintendent Rich Polkinghorn called a timely report, the District presented to the board a breakdown of how the district addresses youth and teen suicide. The report came in the wake of a recent teen suicide at neighboring Hood River Valley High School, where Polkinghorn had once been a teacher and principal.

Feb 14

Feb 14 Winter is Back: Winter Storm Warning Issued for the Columbia River Gorge

Cole Goodwin

Home Page, The Dalles, Wasco County, Skamania County, Klickitat County, Hood River County, Weather

The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning for the Columbia River Gorge including the cities of The Dalles, Dufur, Maupin, Hood River, Underwood, Stevenson, Carson, Corbett, and Cascade Locks. The warning remains in effect from 8 a.m. on February 14 until 10 p.m. on Thursday the 15th. A weather advisory has also been issued for the Simcoe Highlands from Feb. 14-16.

Feb 14

Feb 14 What's Your Personal Yin and Yang Look Like?

Cole Goodwin

Entertainment, Home Page, Art, The Dalles, Wasco County, Positive News

The yin and yang is a symbol of perfect balance between masculine and feminine, light and dark and the little bit of light and dark that exists within each. It also symbolizes the harmony between heaven and earth, and the way in which seemingly opposing forces complete and harmonize each other perfectly.

Feb 13

Feb 13 Column: Coffee dream comes true for Kelsey Kelsey at Bubba's Brew

Brittany Drewett

Business, Columns, Home Page

Hospice Nurse goes after second dream in White Salmon. Family cheers her on as she dives deep into Bubba’s Brew.

Feb 13

Feb 13 Water of Love flowin' at Bargeway for Valentine's; Gorge Giggin' Guide overfloweth

Jim Drake

Art, Columns, Entertainment, Home Page

Jeff Carrell will drip some honey with an acoustic set at the Bargeway Pub on Valentine’s Day as the chefs serve up delectables including steelhead, steaks, pasta and prawns on the pub side. Pull that bow Valentine as the Gorge goes ga ga. This week’s entertainment guide is big enough to make your heart explode.

Feb 13

Feb 13 TD Burglary Update: ATM Theft from hotel in East TD latest heist by brazen criminals

Tom Peterson

Home Page

“It is actively being investigated as we speak,” TD Police Sgt. AustinEll said this morning. “We have two detectives working on it today and that is one of our primary cases right now.”

Feb 12

Feb 12 Night Closures on River Road and Klindt Drive Feb. 13-14

Columbia Community Connection

Home Page

River road will be closed this week for the continued storm pipe installation across River Rd & Klindt Drive. Night Closures will be in effect Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024 and Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024.

Feb 11

Feb 11 Column: Living like a Lotus, part 2

Columbia Community Connection

Columns, Home Page

On Toby’s twenty-first birthday, his surgeon removed his diseased colon and pulled his upper intestine down to form what was called a “W” pouch, a make-do replacement for the colon. From the hospital bed, Toby, with his rye sense of humor, cracked, “Shouldn’t I be out cruising the bars?”

Feb 10

Feb 10 Families Have A Hopping Good Time at The Dalles Library

Cole Goodwin

Home Page, The Dalles, Wasco County, Positive News, Entertainment

The Dalles Wasco County Library’s Second Saturday Storytime event series kicked off with an incredible turnout of over 100 people on Saturday Feb 10, 2024, much to the surprise of librarians.

Feb 10

Feb 10 Column: Living like a Lotus, part 1

Columbia Community Connection

Columns, Home Page

Years ago, as fall menaced the skies with rain in Portland, I interrupted my dinner preparations to answer the phone. It was my twenty-year-old son, Toby, calling from Eugene. In my habitual good cheer, I asked, “How you doing?” Silence drained the line. With the weakness of a starving kitten, he said, “Not so good.”

Feb 9

Feb 9 February Fishing Funtastic and FREE Next Weekend

Columbia Community Connection

Sports, Home Page

No fishing/shellfish licenses or tags including a Combined Angling Tag, Columbia River Basin Endorsement, Two-Rod Validation or Rogue-South Coast Steelhead Validation/Tag are required Feb. 17 and 18.

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