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The Oregon Department of Human Services, Child Welfare Division, has put out a statement asking the public to help find Payton Brazell Smith, age 16, a child in foster care who went missing from Junction City on April 9. Smith is believed to be in danger, according to the press release.

Summer time, and the living may be easy, but driving through some of the West’s most scenic routes isn’t easy at all — it’s congested!  Thank …

Yeah, yeah. I already know you’re going to ask me what shoes have to do with sharks and boats. Before we’re done here today, I’m absolutely certain I’ll have figured it out.

Film crews in the Columbia River Gorge are nothing new, with many films and ads shot on State Route 14 and Interstate 84. It’s not often, however, for those crews to end up shooting a commercial in the heart of White Salmon.