Old stories, photos, and mysteries from the last century of local newspapers in the gorge: White Salmon Enterprise, Hood River News, and The Dalles Daily Chronicle.Â
Free news:Â The good news from a statewide survey last year of local stores selling alcohol and tobacco is that none of the stores placed tobacco where it would be easily accessible for youth, a local survey participant said.
FREE NEWS from Oregon Journalism Project: The Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission has decisively rejected a proposal to allow grocers to sell canned cocktails made with distilled spirits.
HOOD RIVER — In the Columbia River Gorge, beer flows as mightily as the waters that carve it. Craft breweries define a thriving tourist economy built on leisure, recreation and community, with nearby beer havens Portland, Seattle and Bend keeping the hops growing and the alcohol pouring. You might think the industry is thriving, even expanding, as brewmasters continue to innovate with flavor and fun.
As I am trying to stay cool in my air conditioned bedroom like a kangaroo rat in its desert burrow; with my laptop computer sitting appropriately on my lap, I am wondering what to write about this week. And then, like a sweaty palm slapping me across my face, it hits me: the dangers of overexposure to summer heat!
