Free news:Â Hood River-White Salmon Bridge Authority is holding a public information session on Thursday, Oct. 1, from 4:30-6 p.m. at SOCA wine shop.
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Maddie Washburn’s film about the project, completed just as the Grasshopper Fire raged, showed at the Granada Theatre Sept. 24.
Free news:Â If you want to meet the candidates for the Cascade Locks City Council, a candidate forum will be held on Monday, Oct. 5 at 6:30 p.m. at the Port of Cascade Locks pavilion.
Student enrollment for the 2026-2027 year is currently at 2,782, down 61 students from last year.Â
Free news: Klickitat County Sheriff’s Deputies executed a search warrant in the vicinity of the 1300 block of SW Pucker Huddle Road earlier this month as part of an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) investigation.
Free news:Â At 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1, the Skamania County Elections Office will conduct a logic and accuracy test of the programming used to tabulate ballots for the Nov. 3 General Election.
Free news: This free, non-partisan community forum will feature election officials from Wasco and Hood River counties in Oregon and Klickitat County in Washington on Oct. 1 from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Rockford Grange.
Free news:Â Four Rivers Family Early Learning and Parenting Hub has created a free text messaging system to connect families with young children to local resources, activities, and events.
Free news: The used bookstore has been run by Joyce FitzSimmons for 21 years. New owner Siena Balance will be changing its name to The Little Minnow.
Welcome to October, our first full month of autumn. Days are becoming shorter and nights longer. Sunrise is now after 7 a.m., and sunset is before 7 p.m. By the end of the month, sunset will come before 6 p.m.
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THE GORGE — Trout Lake’s Melody Stock and Felicity Peck finished 1-2 at the Bridgette Nelson cross country meet Sept. 25 at Sorosis Park in The Dalles, and the host Riverhawks won the girls and boys races.
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 If all goes according to plan, installation begins this fall on a preliminary test designed to support later replacement of the Hood River-White Salmon Bridge.
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Before Rye Development can build a massive energy facility in a place sacred to the Yakama Nation, the state will have to write them a new water quality permit, a panel of judges ruled on Sept. 21.
Free news: The used bookstore has been run by Joyce FitzSimmons for 21 years. New owner Siena Balance will be changing its name to The Little Minnow.
The Sept. 15 Bingen City Council meeting focused on the buffer zones around Dry and Jewett creeks.
BrightNight is aiming to build on leased private property, 99% of which is zoned as Exclusive Farm Use. Residents have shown mixed reactions to its proposal, leading one farmer, Connie Lee, to create the organization Save Juniper Flat.
Free news:Â The City of Hood River is named in the award alongside project funding and agency partners, including Community Development Partners and Columbia Cascade Housing Corporation.
Gorge Life
MOSIER — After five years of work, Jacob’s Skatepark is officially open. The Sept. 12 grand opening included live music, food, and skating demonstrations. Main Street Mosier (MSM), a nonprofit, pioneered the project alongside the City of Mosier and Oregon Parks and Recreation.
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