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Free briefs: Active RX program, Northern Wasco County People’s Utility District (NWCPUD) Board of Directors
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Free news: Hood River County School District (HRCSD) hosts its annual Ready, Set, Learn! District and Community Resource Fair on Thursday, Aug. 13 from 5-6:30 p.m. at Hood River Valley High School.
Free news: “Before I Die,” a public art installation, is located on W. Jewett Boulevard in White Salmon, and Mayor Marla Keethler wants rehabbing the project to be “put on the books for discussion.”
City council unanimously approved a 10-minute parking spot at Third and Cascade, “effective at all hours and on all days,” following a presentation by Bradford Perron, owner of the Heilbronner Building, at the July 27 meeting.
Klickitat County commissioners got a positive update on 4-H programs in the county at their July 28 meeting, as Washington State University Extension Service 4-H program Coordinator Harley Clever talked numbers.
CASCADE LOCKS — City Council met July 27 for updates on the city’s backlog of audits and the McCord Creek Bridge project.
Free news: The Hood River-White Salmon Bridge Authority will be conducting geotechnical work near the Washington shore starting in mid-August.
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THE DALLES — Wasco County Commissioner candidate John Andrew Grant IV was arrested on several misdemeanor charges July 21.
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In March, while excavating a retaining wall downtown, construction workers stumbled upon a previously unidentified archaeological feature tied to Native American history.
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Along the Columbia River, about eight miles southeast of Goldendale, all that’s left of a former aluminum reduction plant is its foundation and contaminated soil. The site has sat empty since 2003, when the company Golden Northwest Aluminum, Inc. filed for bankruptcy.
City council unanimously approved a 10-minute parking spot at Third and Cascade, “effective at all hours and on all days,” following a presentation by Bradford Perron, owner of the Heilbronner Building, at the July 27 meeting.
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The Cascade Locks City Council has decided to put a Prepared Food and Non-alcoholic Beverage Tax on the November ballot. If passed by voters, the 5% tax would be levied on food and beverages sold for immediate consumption, like scooped frozen desserts.
CASCADE LOCKS — City Council met July 27 for updates on the city’s backlog of audits and the McCord Creek Bridge project.
Free news: The Hood River-White Salmon Bridge Authority will be conducting geotechnical work near the Washington shore starting in mid-August.
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Free news: “Before I Die,” a public art installation, is located on W. Jewett Boulevard in White Salmon, and Mayor Marla Keethler wants rehabbing the project to be “put on the books for discussion.”
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