Artists from across the region united at the Columbia Gorge Museum (CGM) in Stevenson on April 17, where a diverse assortment of locally resonant works — oil paintings, sculptures and beyond — graced the Encircle Technology Community Gallery.

ODELL — For the Columbia River Gorge’s 150-plus community health workers (CHWs), helping people isn’t a job, but a necessity. Every client, every mission, is part of a broad, decades-long movement to bridge the divide between underserved communities and institutionalized health care. 

BINGEN — “Latin music makes you want to move,” said Jen Sotolongo, the event organizer of Baila Sin Parar, a Latin-themed dance fitness class.

HOOD RIVER — As a young lawyer, Vicky Stifter went to El Salvador in the mid-1980s to work with a human rights organization in the midst of war.

The Dalles photographer Gary Elkinton has been babysitting the in-laws chihuahua mixed dog, Miss Kay, taking her on his daily photography. On April 9, he was at Rowena, where he ran into a Wildlife State Trooper checking on a camper. “When he walked by I pointed to Miss Kay and asked if he c…

 On Feb. 5, during a chartered fishing trip off of the coast of Mexico, Alex Ortega, 12, landed a 200-pound sailfish.

THE DALLES — Plant lovers united at The Coffee Shop on April 4 for its monthly community plant swap, which invites familiar faces and newcomers alike to trade and chat about their botanical belongings.