1926 — 100 years ago
A basket of delicious Carman peaches was left at the News office by S. G. Oxborrow, rancher at the end of Belmont road, who specializes in this delicious fruit. This year Mr. Oxborrow, to better serve the house-wife who does canning, is leaving the peaches on the trees until they are dead ripe. This insures a larger peach containing the maximum amount of juice and sugar.
— Hood River News
A fine agricultural district, seriously retarded through lack of good roads, will be opened up next year with the completion of the Pleasant ridge market road, grading work on which was begun this week, according to official information.
Dahlia blossoms from the gardens of Joseph Kasberger were brought the Chronicle office this morning...
— The Dalles Chronicle
1946 — 80 years ago
On the final day of the state Grange annual convention, held at Baker, members expressed firm opposition to any and all attempts by industrial unions to organize farmers and farm labor. The grange reaffirmed a labor policy of several years’ standing.
— Hood River News
1966 — 60 years ago
Lightning, hail and high winds raked a small area southeast of Parkdale during a storm that dumped between two and three inches of rain Saturday afternoon.
Twisting winds that accompanied the half-hour storm ripped limbs from trees and even uprooted some. “It was like a tornado,” explained Mrs. Eugene Euwer. “The air had been terribly muggy then this storm like something out of the tropics came!”
— Hood River News
New lighting on city streets. Local people can check on White Salmon’s lighting system these days, new units put up by the PUD this past week may point the way to a newer and brighter city.
— White Salmon Enterprise
1986 — 40 years ago
During the days preceding and following the Fourth of July, Jill Thompson of Hood River was photographed and interviewed time after time as one of Oregon’s two special representatives at naturalization services in New York during the Statue of Liberty’s centennial. “It was difficult to answer interviewers’ questions. As someone who had worked as a reporter and loved to write down quotable gems, I wanted to deliver a few treasures. Unfortunately, the same words popped out of my mouth every time I answered the how-do-you-feel-about-all-this question: ‘thrilled’ and ‘excited’ I truly was.”
— Hood River News
Much of the labor for the operation is being donated by boardsailors themselves and a representative of the boardsailing community attended Monday night’s regular port session to discuss the work. “There’s great potential there.”
— White Salmon Enterprise
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