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SDS transition taking shape; layoffs confirmed
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SDS transition taking shape; layoffs confirmed

  • By Jacob Bertram, Columbia Gorge News

SDS Lumber Company executives finalized the sale of a vast array of the lumber company’s assets last month, and the three-party consortium tha…

Letters to the editor

Reconsider, SDS

I am writing to publicly encourage the SDS Lumber company to cancel their plans to log the lower portion of Spring Creek, a White Salmon River…

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Timberland companies announce fire closures

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Local timberland companies are announcing that due to conditions of high fire danger, all lands in Klickitat, Skamania, Yakima, Hood River and Wasco counties will be closed to public entry starting Aug. 5 until further notice.

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White Salmon Ed. Foundation hosts ‘Grape Escape’ gala Oct. 8

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The White Salmon Valley Education Foundation (WSVEF) will celebrate a decade of helping local schools at the annual Gorge Grape Escape on Saturday, Oct. 8. In addition to marking the Foundation’s first decade, the night will also launch the next, with a kick-off of the group’s anniversary endowment campaign.

A not so clear-cut clearcut Part 1: Timber operations go off reservation
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A not so clear-cut clearcut Part 1: Timber operations go off reservation

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Over the winter 110 acres of trees in a highly sensitive, very visible Gorge hillside were chopped down. Local environmental groups and members of the public claim they had no idea what was going on until chainsaws and bulldozers were already running. Now they want to know why and how it happened.