Hostility, dysfunction and poor oversight have long persisted, former employees and local leaders say

THE DALLES — There was standing room only when The Dalles City Council meeting began on Sept. 28, as Mayor Rich Mays handed local entrepreneur and longtime community volunteer Corliss Marsh a Certificate of Recognition.

Still underway is the design development process, with architects now focusing on details inside what will be the district’s K-6 elementary school — elements like windows and coverings, student cubbies, and whiteboards.

Part 2: Local residents packed the Hood River Valley Adult Center to hear candidates running for state office in Oregon take questions on Sept. 24. 

Another piece of the city’s Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) Activity Emergency Declaration puzzle has been placed.

THE GORGE — One key source of federal funding gained a reprieve, but the fate of another is still uncertain as Hood River-White Salmon Bridge replacement efforts continue this fall.

Scott Hege (R) and Hank Sanders (D), up for HD 52, addressed constituents during a nonpartisan public forum at the Hood River Valley Adult Center on Sept. 24, hosted by Columbia Gorge News.

Wasco County commissioners voted to put $15 million from Google into an endowment fund, promising a perpetual stream of money for the county’s once-bare coffers after 15 years.

 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.

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.

Maddie Washburn’s film about the project, completed just as the Grasshopper Fire raged, showed at the Granada Theatre Sept. 24.