HOOD RIVER — “Ordinary Days,” a four-player musical from teen production group Theatre CamilleLynne (TCL), will premiere at Columbia Center for the Arts (CCA) on April 3 and run for two weekends.
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THE DALLES — Glenis Schreffler spent over a decade filling bags for kids at The Dalles schools who needed food over the weekend. Now, she heads the Backpack For Kids program.
WHITE SALMON — Enrollment is down in the White Salmon Valley School District (WSVSD), mirroring nationwide trends accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, declining birthrates and alternative education models.
THE DALLES — The Dalles City Council meeting on March 23 began with a tourism report from Explore The Dalles Tourism Director Lynn Cox, covering July 1, 2025, to January. 31, 2026. According to Cox, the city recorded over five million impressions across all marketing channels and over one million total visitor trips.
THE DALLES — The Dalles is a town shaped by geography, weather, and history. The name traces back to the French word dalles, a term French-Canadian voyageurs used to describe the columnar basalt rock formations and the turbulent, narrow gorges of the Columbia River.
HOOD RIVER — Oregon’s Poet Laureate, Ellen Waterston, will lead two special events — a morning writing workshop and an evening poetry reading — at Hood River Library on Saturday, April 4. Both are free and open to the public.
The annual Mother’s Day Flower Basket Fundraiser runs through April 15; pickup is April 29 through May 2 at Vanguard Nursery in White Salmon. The proceeds will be used to empower women and girls in the Gorge, said a press release. Order at soroptimist-hoodriver.square.site.
Recently, brush around the Grange Hall was cut to clear the grounds a bit, but members were busy with many other things and hadn’t been able to make time to haul it away. Community residents Greg and Brenda Wiebe volunteered to haul the brush pile away and things look much better around the hall now.
HOOD RIVER — Combined performances by the Gorge Sinfonietta and the Voci Community choir are always an event. On April 17-19, the two ensembles will come together for a performance called “Roads Not Taken.”
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Rodriguez Mota plans study Mechanical Engineering, joining his older brother Geovanni, (who also won a prestigious scholarship) in the engineering program at OSU.
Fiona Wylde, founder of Wylde Wind & Water, accepted the Oregon Tourism Rising Star Award at the Travel Oregon Banquet on March 9. Presented by Travel Oregon, the award is given to an individual who is new to the tourism industry and has shown exemplary leadership, commitment and passion…
On Feb. 7, students from Hood River Valley High School’s theater and choir programs competed at an International Thespian Society event at Gresham High School. In the musical theater dance category, Finley Smith, Rae Clark, Caden Tubbs, Siva Dassel, Tatum Wyatt, Daisy Jones, and Annika Chapm…
CASCADE LOCKS — The Cascade Locks City Council reached a milestone on Monday, March 23 when it put away its delayed 2022-23 audit for good. Interim staff Gordon Zimmerman and Marianne Bump have the 2023-24 audit in their sights next.
THE DALLES — On March 20, Abundance Solutions announced the release of “AI and Ethics: Adopting AI Technology Without Losing Our Humanity,” a new book by local technology leader.
The Dalles Kiwanis Club meets Thursdays at noon at Spooky’s; visitors welcome
BINGEN — The city’s time capsule was one item of discussion at the Bingen City Council’s March 17 meeting. City Administrator Krista Loney has been tasked with accumulating the items to be included in Bingen’s time capsule, to be opened in 2124.
CASCADE LOCKS — City Council got a presentation from Energy Efficiency Services Group representatives Debbie Swanson and Brandon Blanchard at its March 23 meeting.
If God called you to be a prophet, would you answer the call? What if you were the one tasked with turning around an entire society headed for destruction? You would be about as popular as a global pandemic.
Welcome to April! If you were not able to view the March 3 Lunar eclipse, check it out on the Goldendale Observatory website, at www.goldendaleobservatory.com. Look under “special events” and you can watch a video of the entire eclipse, or a two-minute timelapse.
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