The Hood River Port Commission swore in its third new board member, Dave Meriwether, at Tuesday’s general meeting.

Meriwether is in his last weeks as Hood River County Administrator after 15 years.

The Hood River County Museum is once again without an executive — the museum director was terminated the Friday before last.

Counties that have federal forestland within their borders recently received some bad news after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that this year’s federal timber payments to counties would be drastically reduced due to Congress’ failure to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools Act.

If we learned one thing from this month’s general election, it’s that the voters of Hood River County are big fans of marijuana legalization.

The end of a six-month moratorium on the siting of medical marijuana facilities in Hood River County is rapidly approaching and the county will soon hold a public hearing on whether it wants to extend that ban.

After a tumultuous year, The History Museum of Hood River County is going through some more significant changes.

The Hood River County Board of Commissioners has set Monday, Dec. 2 as the date it will hold a public meeting to make a final decision on Barrett Park.