Hood River Valley’s postponed Special District 1 football contest at Centennial High last week put the Eagles in a two-games-in-five-days scenario with a state playoff berth at state.
To the editor: It would be interesting to know how Miz Jamie would handle a large ruckus town hall meeting where constitutents stomped their feet, waved signs and screamed at her while she attempted to explain or answer their questions.
To the editor: I found the December 31 editorial reprint from Albany, “Watch out for well-meaning laws,” to be pretty contentious in terms of whose interests it seems to represent. It had a strongly neoliberal or “pro-business” slant, warning working Oregonians of repercussions should they try to vote themselves better wages or sick leave. It tried to convince people that a clean-energy economy isn’t worth slightly higher gas prices or new paperwork. Costs and burdens to poor, helpless small businesses were repeatedly mentioned in vague terms. This made the tone of the article sound as if it was concocted by big-money groups.
Gary Hollister of Odell monitors the control equipment connecting radio operators around the county in Saturday’s Hood River County ARES/RACES participation in a statewide communications exercise, dubbed “Quake Ex II”— simulating amateur radio operators’ response in case of a destructive 9.0 earthquake in Oregon.
