Hood River-White Salmon Bridge Authority Project Manager Michael Shannon presented on the current bridge’s deficiencies and the proposed new bridge’s safety and economic benefits. Of note, a pedestrian path could also be used as an emergency bypass lane to keep traffic flowing in the event of an accident.  

HOOD RIVER — The fifth installment of Mt. Adams Institute’s Sense of Place Season 16 will arrive at Columbia Center for the Arts on Feb. 18. Titled “Going Out on a Limb: Life on the Family Farms of Lisa Perry & Ricardo Galvez,” the evening will welcome Perry for a conversation rooted in the agricultural landscape and lived experience of a family farm in the Columbia River Gorge.

CASCADE LOCKS — As the Bridge of the Gods enters its centennial year, its owner, the Port of Cascade Locks, is obtaining new information about the bridge’s condition gleaned from early findings of an ongoing study focused on pedestrian safety, bridge preservation, and seismic resilience.

BINGEN — The Bingen City Council met on Feb. 3 at city hall, and the first action item was awarding the East Steuben Waterline Sections 2-3 contract.

SKAMANIA & KLICKITAT CO. — The Fort Vancouver Regional Library District Board of Trustees chose to avoid referencing “equitable access” in a plan designed to guide network-wide growth and decision making for the next five years during its Jan. 26 meeting.

THE DALLES — On Jan. 15, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) published an investigative article detailing The Dalles’ push to expand its water reservoir capacity in the Mount Hood National Forest through a bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz.

THE GORGE — A public bus from the Columbia River’s in-lieu fishing sites to Wishram is helping some Indigenous people find stable housing. But even so, it’s still a choice between living at a fishing site, or walking their kids across a highway to school, said Gorge Transit Mobility Manger Kathy Fitzpatrick at a January The Dalles Community Affairs meeting.

Councilors then began a conversation about what the city can do and is doing around immigration enforcement work, and how that work is being communicated to the public.