HOOD RIVER — Dublin, Missouri, is a typical American town with typical American residents, tight-knit but stuck in their ways, dominated by a lucrative cheese plant and domineered by the Catholic Church. Everyone knows everyone, but nobody knows the truth — or maybe they're hiding from it.

The 45th annual Northwest Cherry Fest took place in The Dalles on April 24–26 with events ranging from fun runs to carnival rides — and yes, the much-anticipated parade, as seen above.

STEVENSON — 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. 

The weather on Easter weekend was beautiful. The tiny calves dotting the pastures around Glenwood are loving being able to romp and lounge in warm sunshine for a change. On Saturday, April 4, the Women’s Club hosted the annual Easter Egg Hunt at the county park.

HOOD RIVER — Every Wednesday evening in Hood River, on an otherwise typical weeknight, an entire dance social is grooving behind the scenes at Crush Cider Café.

BINGEN — Sense of Place presents a special pop-up event: “Jerry Franklin: Rethinking Forests: Then and Now,” taking place Friday, April 24, 2026, at the Bingen Theater.

HOOD RIVER — Sense of Place concludes its 16th official season on Wednesday, April 15, 2026, with “Crag Rats Turn 100: A Century of Service with the Oldest Mountain Search & Rescue Team in America.”

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.

Central Washington-based naturalist and herpetologist Adrian Slade, who's been infatuated with snakes since early childhood, shared facts and busted myths about our deeply misunderstood neighbors at the Columbia Center for the Arts on March 18 — the sixth presentation in host and curator Sarah Fox’s Sense of Place season 16.

THE DALLES — Nearly two thousand people, including visitors from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond, populated downtown The Dalles March 6-8 for the inaugural “The Hoot” community music festival, a free, three-day celebration of arts and local culture presented by the all-volunteer nonp…

BINGEN — Grab your nightgown, slide in those dentures, and enter the antique heart of Magnolia Place Assisted Living, where four spirited senior ladies with Caribbean dreams find themselves tangled in a facility-wide deceit. In its final for-profit show, Big Britches Productions (BBP) presents Leslie Kimbell’s “Four Old Broads,” which debuts at The Bingen Theater on March 13 and will run for three weekends.