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District explores electric buses
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District explores electric buses

  • By Trisha Walker, Columbia Gorge News

HOOD RIVER — Superintendent Rich Polkinghorn began with an exciting update at the Oct. 26 Hood River County School District school board meeti…

CAT’s many Connections
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CAT’s many Connections

  • Emily Fitzgerald

I’m ashamed to admit that when I found out I was going to be transferred from The Dalles Chronicle to the Hood River News, my first thought was something along the lines of ‘ugh now I have to drive to Hood River.’

Osa Anna Drew
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Osa Anna Drew

Osa Anna Drew, known to everyone as Annie, passed away in Hood River on Jan. 9, 2018, at the age of 81. She was born to Mattie (Miles) and Mer…

Snow leads to TD bus mishap
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Snow leads to TD bus mishap

  • Neita Cecil
  • Updated

A school bus loaded with middle schoolers had to lock its brakes when it was cut off by another driver as it turned into the Wahtonka campus parking lot Thursday, and it slid into a fence, damaging both fence and bus.

Opinion

One driver's plea: School, and buses, are back – remember the rules of the road

  • PERRY COLE

With school starting this week, we again find children walking and riding their bicycles to school. Also those big yellow buses are on our streets and roads picking up and delivering children to and from home to school. While walking to and from the bus stop, waiting at the bus stop and crossing the street to get on the bus, these children are put at risk due to inattentive drives.