Several years ago, I came to the Columbia River Gorge to visit some family members who had settled near Hood River. And 26 years later, I’m st…

Beers connecting to community are pouring at Double Mountain Brewery.

This fruit label is visible from the highway.

Nate Chavez brought energy to all he did, and the response following his death seems to be in keeping with that.

“It lets the architecture speak,” Mark Nilsson said of his new mural in the children’s section of Hood River County Library. “There are a lot of walls here, and angles, and they’re broken up. Initially I was going to paint on the angles but I decided to keep them as natural breaks.”

Taking a tour of Hood River is like taking a tour of Mark Nilsson’s artwork. And after 20 years in town, he’s created quite a bit of it.