This story has been updated to reflect a new sentencing date. 

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

On Sunday, Sept. 27 at 3:27 p.m., fire crews responded to a brush fire off of Orchard Road, just southeast of The Dalles near Powerline Road.

An unplanned closure came, ironically, during the Sept. 15 port commission meeting, when a truck hit the bridge guardrail. Bridge traffic closed in both lanes until the truck could be towed away that evening.

THE DALLES — Precipitated by poor snowpack and later complicated by the Grasshopper Fire, surface water supply dropped low enough that city officials implemented a voluntary water restriction advisory for all users last Tuesday.

The Mosier Fire District (MFD) has shifted direction in its efforts to build a new fire station, striking out on its own after funding issues stalled a long running proposed joint-use facility (JUF), which the district would share with the City of Mosier.

THE GORGE — The U.S. Fire Administration reports that adults over the age of 65 are 2.6 times more likely to perish in a fire than the general population.

Scam — On Aug. 25 in Hood River, a scammer posing as a bank convinced a resident to deposit $16,000 of their money into an unknown account.

WISHRAM — As students traversed an inflatable obstacle course and enjoyed root beer floats inside Wishram High and Elementary School last Wednesday evening, Superintendent Tye Churchwell got word that a grass fire sparked about five miles west, just south of State Route 14.