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This week in history: Aug. 5, 2026

  • Gorge News staff
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Old news, photos, and interesting bits and pieces from the last century of local newspapers in the Gorge. The days when farmers got their publicity by bringing fresh dahlias and peaches to the newspaper office!

Life on the family farm of Lisa Perry and Ricardo Galvez
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Life on the family farm of Lisa Perry and Ricardo Galvez

  • By Sean Avery, Columbia Gorge News
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HOOD RIVER — For generations, family farms in the Hood River Valley (HRV) have helped shape a unified sense of place, growing crops that define the region as an agricultural hub — world-renowned pears, apples, and cherries — while strengthening a tight-knit rural community.

Sense of Place: Going Out on a Limb coming to CCA
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Sense of Place: Going Out on a Limb coming to CCA

  • Sarah Fox, Mt. Adams Institute media release
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HOOD RIVER — The fifth installment of Mt. Adams Institute’s Sense of Place Season 16 will arrive at Columbia Center for the Arts on Feb. 18. Titled “Going Out on a Limb: Life on the Family Farms of Lisa Perry & Ricardo Galvez,” the evening will welcome Perry for a conversation rooted in the agricultural landscape and lived experience of a family farm in the Columbia River Gorge.

Obituary: James Reed Jr.
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Obituary: James Reed Jr.

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On Jan. 18, 2026, James Westley Reed Jr. peacefully passed away, leaving behind a legacy of integrity, wisdom, and love. Jim will be remembere…

Last of Summer Salad
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Last of Summer Salad

  • JANICE BELL Arome
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  The final days of summer approach and our gardens are producing the best of the best, ripe tomatoes, the last of the peaches and nectarines …

Robert Harold Cosgrave
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Robert Harold Cosgrave

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Robert “Bob” Harold Cosgrave passed away on February 22, 2018 in The Dalles, Oregon at the age of 92. He was born on January 4, 1926, to Harol…