To the editor: The voters of Oregon’s District 59 are in a very enviable position, two honest and hardworking individuals who would both serve us well. Darcy Long-Curtiss did not ask me to write this letter. I asked her if I could write it. I wanted other people to know the Darcy that I know, a fun, honest and very caring individual.
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An appeal hearing last week in Salem of a state-issued wetlands fill permit for a proposed Walmart superstore in The Dalles focused on whether the project had to meet a public need or not.
The Sense of Place lecture, “Glacier Caves of the Pacific Northwest: Hidden Laboratories under the Ice,” has been rescheduled to Jan. 20.
When it comes to the science of speech, it turns out birdbrains aren’t so simple. A Portland researcher and more than 200 colleagues across the globe recently finished a project establishing a family tree for the world’s birds.
How many times do you hear of new products or research findings that will help you live longer? Take this pill or that, eat less fat and more fiber, hit the gym, and lift those weights, etc. But many folks ignore these reports because they believe when their time is up, there ain’t nothing you can do about it. So why change old habits? Que Sera, Sera, whatever will be, will be.
It’s been one year since Tonya Aldrich got the call. Her husband, Rick, had been in an accident while operating a road grader at his job as a mine superintendent at Avery Pit near Wishram and she needed to go to the hospital right away.
To the editor: Mary Gale, administrator from North Central Public Health Department, certainly has made her agenda known regarding smokers. She advocates confronting people over their smoking. She advocates suggesting to people disembarking the cruise ships they should not smoke (very welcoming). She advocates charging smokers more in taxes who smoke in order to “discourage” them. When did the outdoors become available to the majority, but not everyone?
WASHINGTON — Working mothers increasingly want full-time jobs, and tough economic times might be a big reason, according to a national survey. In the Pew Research Center study being released Thursday, researchers saw a big spike in the share of working mothers who said they’d prefer to work full time; 37 percent said that was their ideal, up from 21 percent in 2007.
Hood River County Library District has a clean financial bill of health for its first year in operation.
