As shared at the Aug. 18 Hood River County School District board meeting, migrant students participating in summer school this month have been…
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HOOD RIVER — The annual Gorge Paddle Challenge took over the Hood River waterfront park on July 22-24. Athletes from across the world came to the Gorge for one of the premier water sports events. The original Columbia Gorge Paddle Challenge was started by Steve Gates in 2011 and featured stand up paddle board (SUP) races and relays. Today, the newly renamed Gorge Challenge has adapted to current times. When Gates lost his battle with cancer 2019, Byron Kurt was asked to take the reigns or let the event end.
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HOOD RIVER — Fresh off her back-to-back gold medals in the 2021 ICF Stand Up Paddleboard World Championships, Fiona Wylde has returned to Hood…
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HOOD RIVER — Fiona Wylde, swept the first place awards at the 2021 Gorge Paddle Challenge in August, but her work was not finished. In a year …
The Gorge Paddle Challenge was put on by Salt Life and SIC (Sandwich Islands Composites) over the weekend of August 13-15.
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It was long awaited and highly anticipated, and this past weekend, the SIC Gorge Paddle Challenge returned to Hood River for its ninth year of…
On Feb. 17, Hood River resident Fiona Wylde won the 2019 Sunset Beach Pro in Oahu, Hawaii, a Stand-Up Paddle (SUP) surf competition organized …
In a field of 340 athletes from around the world, two hometown racers stood out in last weekend’s Naish StandUp Paddle Challenge on the Hood River waterfront. The event is part of the World Paddling League series, so the stakes were high, racers might have said in Dutch, German, Japanese, Spanish or French.
Barbara C. Board made her journey to Heaven on Dec. 22, 2017, in Mt. Hood-Parkdale, Ore. Barbara was born on March 24, 1943, in Dalton, Ga.
This past weekend athletes from Australia, Tahiti, Europe, Canada and the US traveled to Hood River to compete in the seventh annual Naish Columbia Gorge Paddle Challenge (CGPC), which is one of the most competitive and prestigious stand up paddling races.
