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Free news: The City of Hood River is accepting applications for Planning Commission vacancies, to fill positions serving through Sept. 30, 2030.
The county has approved an agreement with the landfill to pursue a brand-new road separating traffic and giving trucks their own pathway from Highway 197 to the landfill — a plan the landfill has agreed to pay for.
Free news: Visitors and travelers with upcoming plans to visit Hood River are encouraged to monitor the situation carefully and to make informed decisions about their trip.
Free news: Smoky conditions are expected to continue this morning and gradually improve as easterly winds both calm and shift westerly later today.
Free news: At about 7:29 a.m. on Aug. 1, the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a deceased male in the Eagle Creek drainage near Cascade Locks. Another hiker reported the male fell approximately 50-80 feet from a cliff above Punchbowl Falls.
Free briefs: Active RX program, Northern Wasco County People’s Utility District (NWCPUD) Board of Directors
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.
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The county has approved an agreement with the landfill to pursue a brand-new road separating traffic and giving trucks their own pathway from Highway 197 to the landfill — a plan the landfill has agreed to pay for.
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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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.
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.
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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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