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HOOD RIVER — The Hood River community will again come together in celebration as the fourth annual Hood River Pride Celebration returns June 5-6, with a weekend of vibrant, inclusive events honoring the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies.
Besides warm weather, summer trips, and struggling to manage the overgrown garden, summer is the time when you can shop local and fresh at one of the six Farmers Markets in the Gorge.
A few days before Memorial Day weekend, Glenwood High School students turned out to assist Glenwood Women’s Club president Carla Dillenburg and club member Becky Branson to place flags on all the veterans’ graves.
June is here, with our longest days and shortest nights. At the start of June, sunset occurs at about 8:50 p.m. On the summer solstice, June 21, the sun will set at about 9 p.m. Sunset will remain at about 9 p.m. for the rest of June. Darkness will obviously come late — on June 21 it will not get completely dark until after 11:30 p.m.
THE GORGE — The Oregon Heritage Commission has honored The Watershed Rock Opera with an Oregon Heritage Award of Excellence, recognizing the project’s innovative approach to storytelling and heritage preservation.
THE DALLES — “Kaleidoscopia” is a visual meditation through the abstract image concoctions of artists Brielle Lefebvre and Jason Breeden. Their imagery emerges from a collaboration between the conscious and subconcious, resulting in a layered symbolism of our micro and macro worlds.
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HOOD RIVER — Local Eileen Garvin released her third novel, “Bumblebee Season,” this April. Set in a fictionalized Hood River, it’s “a heartwarming new story that returns to the vibrant world of beekeeping in a small Oregon town,” according to the book summary. “It’s not a sequel, but it’s a …
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Lightning over The Dalles Dam on Thursday, May 28, at 8:30 p.m. The storm cut power to about 2,000 customers, according to Northern Wasco County PUD. Have a nature photo to share? Send it to news@gorgenews.com with a short description.
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THE DALLES — Kiwanis meetings are held every Thursday at noon at Spooky's and visitors are welcome. June events include:
Free news: Learn practical, fire-wise landscaping strategies at this informative community workshop focused on reducing wildfire risk around the home.
Free news: In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of this great country, the Celilo Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) planted three trees that will be dedicated as Liberty Trees.
Elaine Kirby’s poem “Mt. Hood,” a selection for the second annual Indian Creek Poetry Walk, sits beneath its volcanic namesake at Barrett Park in Hood River. The exhibition features 20 nature-themed poems at intervals along the Indian Creek Trail, spanning 2.7 miles. At right, “Say Amen,” a …
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WHITE SALMON — They’re creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, the Addams Family descended upon the Columbia High School (CHS) gymnasium last weekend, where students boogied and belted their way through three performances of the hit Broadway adaptation — the school’s first musical production under drama teacher Shawn Friese.
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HOOD RIVER — Scenes from the Memorial Day Remember and Honor ceremony at Idlewilde Cemetery. The ceremony included the posting of the colors by the Gorge Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol, the singing of the National Anthem by Grant Hinman, presentation of flowers and memorial markers and …
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The Dalles photographer Gary Elkinton attended the Wasco Memorial Day Parade on May 25. Free, online-only photo gallery.
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THE DALLES — Erica Carillo, of The Dalles Middle School, got a surprise announcement that she was Oregon’s 2026 Education Support Professional of the Year on May 20 amid a student carnival and talent show she organized.
Think back when you were young. There was energy and enthusiasm; the future was a banquet of choices and opportunities, so many things to do and so little time to do them. And “Yet, knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.”
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