The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is hosting free webinars this spring for anyone interested in helping rural communities prepare for and respond to disasters such as floods, extreme heat and wildfires. The two-part series, “Rural Communities Prepared for Disasters,” will bring in disaster response experts to share tools, resources and insights tailored to the […]
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CASCADE LOCKS — For the first time, Cascade Locks Port commissioners learned which companies may have designed Bridge of the Gods’ lost archit…
HOOD RIVER — Presentations from the November Board of Commissioners meeting in Hood River County included increases to the garbage rate, a don…
THE GORGE — Violet Woods, a recent Sherman County High School graduate, and Roberto Rodriguez Perez and Elizabeth Areco Dorado, recent The Dalles High School graduates, were recently awarded scholarships through NewSun Energy’s second annual Climate + Ag essay contest.
Hood River County has a long-standing history of investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy — as a means to reduce energy costs, hedge our bets against rising energy costs, and increase our community’s resilience to warming temperatures and natural disasters, both natural and human caused.
Wasco/Hood River County USDA Farm Service Agency Executive Director Kevin MacIntyre reminds producers to review available USDA crop risk protection options, including federal crop insurance and Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program coverage.
Our family was deeply disappointed with the county commission's decisions on Dec. 17. But we were further appalled when we read commission members' comments in Wednesday's paper. After hearing over an hour's testimony of sound, compelling and researched evidence that a mega-Wal-Mart will affect life, health and property (the criteria for emergency the commission has repeatedly stood by), the commission went on to say that there was no threat to life, health and property. Chuck Thomsen justified their position by stating that declaring an instance wherein land use law and natural disasters would coincide. In other words, the circumstances for which this unique power of declaring an emergency was bestowed upon the commission has come and stared them squarely in the eyes. We are bewildered by their response. Ask the children and families in the trailer park on Country Club Road if they find the impending loss of their homes to Wal-Mart any different than losing them to a tornado or flood.
