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Obituary: Bill Tate
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Obituary: Bill Tate

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William (Bill) Tate, born on Nov. 24, 1951, passed away on Oct 27, 2020, at Providence Hood River from a rare and aggressive form of cancer.

Joyce Oleda Martin
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Joyce Oleda Martin

Joyce Oleda Martin passed away April 27, 2018, at the Hood River Care Center in Hood River, Ore. She was born Dec. 12, 1929, in Muskogee, Okla…

Girls Up collects bras for homeless this month
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Girls Up collects bras for homeless this month

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Hood River Valley High School Girl Up is partnering with I Support the Girls, Helping Hands Against Violence, and Oak Street businesses Melika and Laurel & Eddie for a February community service project.

Growlerz hosting final hurrah
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Growlerz hosting final hurrah

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The “sweet little business” serving drinks, gourmet hot dogs, and live music, held its last musical hurrah last Friday. Bingen’s Growlerz, located off Steuben Street, closed its doors just shy of two years after opening.

Mary Calisti
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Mary Calisti

Mary Calisti, 77, a longtime resident of Odell, Ore., passed away peacefully in her home on Saturday, June 13, 2015, shortly after being diagn…

Walter Scott Clawson
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Walter Scott Clawson

Walter Scott Clawson was born on July 30, 1941, in Walla Walla, to Scott and Daisy Clawson and passed away June 25, 2014, from a car accident …

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Sea otter has basketball talent

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PORTLAND (AP) — Nothing but net? No problem for one sporty sea otter at the Oregon Zoo. Eddie the otter has been trained to dunk a basketball through a small plastic hoop. It’s an exercise a veterinarian recommended for his arthritic elbows. Eddie is 15, quite old for a sea otter. But as they put it at the Oregon Zoo, he’s got game. Eddie makes most of his shots. But when he misses, he hits the boards, grabs the rebound and goes up again until he scores.