MOSIER — Situated along Mosier’s main drag, Roughcuts Rustic Furniture/Rods & Trikes boasts an impressive assemblage of scraps. But don’t get it twisted — this metal heap is no junkyard. For owner and award-winning craftsman Jim Wilson, it’s an ever-rotating treasury of functional materials used to convert motorcycles into custom, specialized trikes for riders with disabilities.
WHITE SALMON — Local health industry leaders assembled at Skyline Health on Nov. 17 for the second annual Better Together Rural Health Retreat — a convening of prominent organizations and individuals from across the Gorge to strategize, align workforce priorities and plan for the future.
Home and Garden: Finance, winter gardening, holiday decorating, a deep dive into honey bee behavior, concrete advise and Huckleberry Sugar Cookies.
FREE: THE GORGE — As the seasons shift, fall and winter offer time to discover something new about nature. UCD is starting their seventh Annual Winter Workshop Series as December, January, and February in-person meetings in White Salmon and Stevenson, Washington.
The holiday season is a special time to gather with family and friends and enjoy all the holiday excitement. But many find this time difficult: grieving the loss of a loved one, financial stresses, isolation, and loneliness.
FREE NEWS: Continuing a tradition of a Christmas play to kick-off the holiday season, Serious Theater is presenting a readers theater production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
FREE NEWS: What's happening this week? Free event listing for the Columbia River Gorge.
THE DALLES — Community members gathered at the Granada Theater on Nov. 6 for a free film screening hosted by The Mid-Columbia Houseless Collaborative (MCHC), “No Place to Grow Old.”
HOOD RIVER — Did you know that mushrooms are more closely related to humans than plants? Well, Krista Cushman does, along with an encyclopedia of tips and tricks to help you identify them in the wild.
The Columbia River Gorge enthusiast, mycologist and Hood River educator shared an abundance of fungal facts and woodsy wisdom at the Columbia Center for the Arts on Nov. 12 — the second lecture in Mt. Adams Institute’s Sense of Place Season 16.
Historical stories, photos and ads from the last century of Hood River News, The Dalles Chronicle and White Salmon Enterprise. History Mystery will return next week!
HOOD RIVER — The Hood River Rotary Club’s Dictionary Program is in full gear. Under the program, the club delivers a dictionary to every fifth grader in the county. It’s run every year since 1994, except for a brief pause during the pandemic.
Each week, I include a Brain Tease to challenge that three-pound lump of gray matter hiding behind your forehead, since brain teasers can stimulate multiple areas of your brain, especially those responsible for working memory, pattern recognition, and problem-solving.
FREE NEWS: A new irrigation system for the Parkdale Bicentennial Memorial Garden is costly and the Parkdale Garden Club, in conjunction with the Parkdale Grange and the Central Gorge Master Gardeners Association, are raising funds to take on this project.
THE DALLES — The festive season is set to begin early as St. Peter's Altar Society hosts its 46th Annual Holiday Bazaar. A beloved local tradition and the Altar Society's biggest fundraiser, the event features dozens of vendors, a full-service cafeteria, and exciting new additions like tamal…
DUFUR — Tucked into the arid, rolling hills east of Mt. Hood, ShadowBuck Winery recognizes responsible stewardship, sustainability and family as keys to a fruitful future in Oregon’s agritourism scene.
WHITE SALMON — Gorge native and former Army medevac pilot Lacey Szekely was appointed Secretary of the Board of Directors for Nation’s Finest last month, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting veterans across California, Arizona and Nevada.
Mother Nature is doing her best to recover from the Burdoin Fire, which started July 18 in Klickitat County near Lyle, as seen in these photos from The Dalles photographer Gary Elkinton: This summer, at left, and the landscape now, at right. Have a nature photo to share? Send it with a short…
HOOD RIVER — The Hood River County Board of Commissioners met Oct. 20 and started off with two public hearings. The first was on the FEMA flood plain ordinance, which was adopted.
STEVENSON — A&J Market business owners Andra and John Mobley received the “Leadership on Main” Award at the Washington State Main Street Program’s annual Excellence on Main ceremony in Tacoma last month, recognized for their long-standing commitment to communication, dedication to employees and quiet but powerful leadership.
TROUT LAKE — Twelve songwriters will gather at Trout Lake Hall on Dec. 6 for an evening of tunes meant to inspire, unite and rally.
GORGE — Gorge-based arts organizations, Cascade Singers and the Columbia Gorge Orchestra Association (CGOA), received a combined $7,368 through the Oregon Arts Commission’s Sustaining Arts Program for fiscal year 2026.
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