The Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association (CGOA) is proud to announce they have received a small operating grant of $2,261 from the Oregon Arts Commission. CGOA is also ready to swing at the Hood River Elks this Friday, Sept. 23 with the Jazz Collective Big Band. Tickets are still available.

Follow Cole Goodwin and other local people as they prepare for this year’s challenge!

“Helping people accomplish their goals and follow their dreams is what we love most,” Weed said. “We have helped to support people open their own businesses, working in the jobs of their dreams and travel to see the world both locally and as far away as New York City.”

The Dalles needs YOUR support to bring free, live music concert series to our community at the Lewis and Clark Festival Park. There are two easy ways to cast your vote: online at https://vote.levitt.org/locations/the-dalles/ or text TDMUSIC to 866-AMP-2023 (866-267-2023).

The 2022 Kiwanis Steak Feed will soon be upon us today, Thursday, Sept. 8. It goes from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 and are still available. Click here for the link to purchase tickets.

The 2023 Freightliner – equipped with a 24-foot box, Thermo King reefer unit and Maxon liftgate – will enable CGFB to better serve the entire region, pick up donations and deliver to our rural community partners. Join the scavenger hunt and welcome the new addition to CGFB’s operation.

A-05 Annex Team 6381, a robotics team from Hood River Valley High School gave a public demonstration of ‘Tom’ the robot at First Friday in Hood River on September 2nd, 2022.

Jill and Dan Durow are the September winners of The Dalles Beautification Committee award.

You remember that first week of school in first grade? Was it hot? We’re your clothes stiff. Did you meet a best friend? Lots of locals did, and it made a lasting impression. Read what our friends and neighbors had to say about it here.

Mid Columbia Fire and Rescue Capt. Eric Blumenthal offers up a boot to a driver who loves peace on Third Street, The Dalles near Clock Tower Ales. They are collecting money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) from drivers-by until 4 p.m. today, Friday, Sept. 2.

The Dalles Kiwanis Steak Feed is the hot ticket for Thursday, Sept. 8th at Sorosis Park. The fundraiser in its 66th year is a local favorite and a great chance to have a steak dinner with neighbors and friends while giving back to your community. The weather is supposed to be perfect. Sounds like a win-win-win. Buy tickets here.

Comunidades has launched a new website with additional information from partners as the nonprofit works to promote the civic engagement of our Latino/a/x communities in social and environmental justice issues.

Get the latest on upcoming community events at The Dalles Wasco County Public Library!

Mural artists began painting all around The Dalles early this morning.

Metallica rips in this encore that brings $100,000 in local scholarships to students in career-technology training at Columbia Gorge Community College.

Following months of anticipation, Washington Gorge Action Programs (WAGAP) will begin operations of a new Mobile Food Bank in Klickitat County in September, with plans to expand to Skamania County in October.

Fort Dalles Museum, the second oldest museum in Oregon is right here in The Dalles. If you like history and like to meet people, we need you.

On August 13th, 2022 volunteers from Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue, The Dalles Lions Club, Wasco County Sheriff’s Department, Oregon State Police, Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul gathered at Fred Meyer for the 4th annual Shop With a Hero event, which supports economically disadvantaged students and parents go back to school shopping.

Question of the week: Ever had a nickname? From the Editor - They used to call me bentnose through no fault of my own. Quite simply, I was dropped as a child, and my nose either broke or bent. The upshot, my schnoz, got a bridge like San Francisco. Tragic, funny, unique, and bittersweet at times, nicknames run wild through our lives, and I did not meet a person on the street this week without one.

The Oregon Reptile Man, Richard Richey delivered a fun and educational hour-long program featuring over a dozen different reptiles including an alligator, de-venomized diamondback rattlesnake, a king cobra and a burmese python named Julius Squeezer, at The Dalles Wasco County Library on August 9th, 2022.