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Opinion

Your voice: Aug. 20, 2025

Updated Aug 20, 2025

This week's letters to the editor. NOTE: The opinions expressed are “your voice,” and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Columbia Gorge News, its staff, publisher or advertisers.

News

After one year of war, Gorge Gaza Action stands firm

By Nathan Wilson, Columbia Gorge News
Updated Oct 7, 2025

HOOD RIVER — “The antidote to despair is collective action,” said Vicky Stifter, the pastor at Riverside Community Church.

Gorge Life

Just Say the Word: Exodus Chap. 20 — The ten ‘thou shalt not’s'

By David Marvin
Updated Jan 23, 2024

Tell a kid they can’t do something, and when they ask you why not, tell them “it’s because I said so.” That always works, and you won’t have to worry for a second that they will try it anyway. Ah, yes, sarcasm is my old and trusted friend.

Gorge Life

Just Say the Word: Luke, Matthew 2:10-11 — Joy to the world

By David Marvin
Updated Aug 19, 2025

There are two separate and distinct stories that I heard as a child as the holiday season drew near.

One hard-to-believe story is of a baby born in a manger, born of a virgin, Messiah, and savior of the world.

Obituaries

Obituary: Bruce Williams

Updated Dec 1, 2023

Bruce Allen Williams was born to Jimmy and Wilma Williams on April 27, 1961, in Hood River, Ore. Jimmy, a pastor, and Wilma, a saint, raised h…

Obituaries

Obituary: Aaron Wagar

Updated Oct 16, 2023

Aaron Joseph Wagar went to be with his Savior in Heaven on Sept. 22, 2023. He passed from a heart attack at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical C…

Opinion

Opinion: We should hear ‘This, this, is not the way’

By Delores Maggiore
Oct 14, 2020

A preteen reading Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories, I was absolutely fascinated by Poe’s ability to contrive his endings in such an eerily easy…

Letters to the editor

Letter to the Editor: Creator always right

Updated Aug 27, 2020

To the editor: There is an instinctive but incorrect assumption that the Creator of heaven and earth must communicate with human beings using the simplest manner possible to guarantee that we will love Him.

Obituaries

Virginia Vredenburgh

Jun 3, 2015

Virginia (Needham) Powers Vredenburgh, 97, went to be with the Lord on Monday, May 25, 2015. Nearly 40 family members had gathered on Memorial…

Gorge Life

Israel likes a party but is torn about New Year’s

Updated Aug 27, 2020

New Year’s is ‘someone else’s Party’

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Your voice: Aug. 20, 2025

After one year of war, Gorge Gaza Action stands firm

Just Say the Word: Exodus Chap. 20 — The ten ‘thou shalt not’s'

Just Say the Word: Luke, Matthew 2:10-11 — Joy to the world

Obituary: Bruce Williams

Obituary: Aaron Wagar

Opinion: We should hear ‘This, this, is not the way’

Letter to the Editor: Creator always right

Virginia Vredenburgh

Israel likes a party but is torn about New Year’s

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