Column: Awarded Best Light Display: Stephanie and Doug Hoffman, 407 W. 11th Street

Column: Awarded Best Light Display: Stephanie and Doug Hoffman, 407 W. 11th Street

Sarah Cook
Art, Entertainment, Home Page, The Dalles

“We love to hear people say they drove by our house and they loved the decorations or that their kids really like Frosty,” said Stephanie Hoffman. “I would miss coming home in the evening or leaving in the morning and seeing the lights. I would miss watching cars slow down to look at the lights. I believe the decorations help people get in the Christmas spirit. As a kid, my parents used to drive us around to look at lights. It was one of my favorite things to do.” 

Column: Awarded Best Inflatable Scene: Dorothy Waters, 1534 E. 11th Street

Column: Awarded Best Inflatable Scene: Dorothy Waters, 1534 E. 11th Street

Sarah Cook
Art, Columns, Entertainment, The Dalles, Home Page

“It’s kinda hard for me to do this—it’s a lot of work—but I do enjoy doing it, and I do it because the kids come by and they like seeing everything. I have people who will pull up in front of the house at night and stay for 5 minutes just taking it all in,” said Dorothy Waters. “Some years I think, Well, maybe I shouldn’t…But I always do. Recently a neighbor said, Boy, I’m glad you do this every year, it’s so nice to look at.”

Column:  Awarded Best Tree: Linda and Wayland Huteson, 1221 E. 11th Street 

Column:  Awarded Best Tree: Linda and Wayland Huteson, 1221 E. 11th Street 

Sarah Cook
Columns, Entertainment, Home Page, Art

For years, our columnist Sarah Cook and her partner have made popcorn and hot chocolate hopped in their tiny Subaru, put on All Classical Portland, and driven around The Dalles as they pretended to assign trophies to the most spectacularly decorated houses.  This year Sarah is handing out accolades in CCCNews with four awards. First up: Best Tree goes to the Hutesons.

Judge finds fish impacts minimal clearing way for Walmart in TD; Legal wrangling, however, not likely over

Judge finds fish impacts minimal clearing way for Walmart in TD; Legal wrangling, however, not likely over

Tom Peterson
Business, Home Page, The Dalles, Wasco County

A recent order by Oregon Administrative Law Judge Jennifer Rackstraw concludes that minimal impacts at most would come to endangered species such as steelhead and Chinook if wetlands are removed in the construction of a Walmart supercenter in The Dalles. She found the public benefits outweighed some degree of wetland destruction and degradation, stream and river pollution, fish mortality, and wildlife mortality and displacement.

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