HOOD RIVER — Pete Woolley, 94, a resident of Flagstone Senior Living in The Dalles, is no stranger to the sky, but it’s been some time since he last flew. On Sept. 23, Woolley fulfilled his wish to take one last flight at the Ken Jernstedt Airfield in a two-passenger plane.
BINGEN — What if a man born in the Upper Paleolithic survived to the present — through every plague, war, discovery, and disaster? Big Britches Productions’ (BBP) latest play, “The Man From Earth,” proposes this question and more, examining time, mortality, and religion in a tight but challenging 90 minutes.
1926 — 100 years ago
UNDERWOOD — For 125 years, millions of tule fall Chinook salmon have passed through the Spring Creek National Fish Hatchery (SCNFH), incubating, hatching, stocking, and returning years later to spawn — a cycle completed by scent after years at sea.
CASCADE LOCKS — The Gorge’s most iconic bridge — a steel truss cantilever named after a divine Native American legend and home to the Pacific Crest Trail — turns 100 this year.
Old news, stories and photos from the last century of local newspapers in the Columbia River Gorge. Of interest this week is a paper from 1946, when the struggle for treaty fishing rights here was intense.
Old news, stories and photos from the last century of local papers in the gorge. When a salmon took a fisherman for a swim in 1946, that was news.
HOOD RIVER — Two new art exhibitions, each confronting the history, humanity, and meaning of place, debuted at Columbia Center for the Arts (CCA) on Sept. 4 and will run through the end of October.
1926 — 100 years ago
Old news, stories and photos from the last century of local newspapers in White Salmon, Hood River and The Dalles. One hundred years ago, a lady shot a bear and it made the front page.
The Crown Point Country Museum opened its doors this March to a rural community of only a few thousand. The log cabin-inspired building is 3,500 square feet, tucked away not far from the Portland Women’s Forums and the Crown Point Vista House.
THE GORGE — Are you interested in attending this year’s Oregon State Fair? Interested in public education and especially one room schoolhouses?
Old news, stories and photos from the last century of local papers.
Old news, photos, and interesting bits and pieces from the last century of local newspapers in the Gorge. The days when farmers got their publicity by bringing fresh dahlias and peaches to the newspaper office!
1926 - 100 years ago
The last hundred years of local news, photos, and obsolete ads from The Dalles Chronicle, White Salmon Enterprise, and Hood River News.
Stories, photos and mysteries from the last century of local news and museum collections in the Gorge.
Old stories, news and photos from the archives of local newspapers and photographs, covering the last hundred years.
Old news and photos from the last century of White Salmon Enterprise, Hood River News and The Dalles Chronicle.
Chaos at the bank and a free vaudeville show! Sounds like quite a week back in 1926.
HOOD RIVER — From a warm early afternoon and well into a breezy evening, people of all ages gathered in the name of freedom and community, dancing their way through Black in the Gorge’s (B.I.G.) fourth annual Juneteenth celebration at Jackson Park.
Old news, history and photos from the last century of local newspapers in the mid-Columbia Gorge: The Dalles Chronicle, Hood River News, and White Salmon Enterprise.
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