WHITE SALMON — On May 14, a trio of Columbia High School juniors will travel to San Francisco to pitch their months-long, user-centered engineering project, which converts color into sound.

I am a firm believer that everyone is an expert in something. It might be changing a tire, Olympic curling stats, or alpine tree species. This…

HOOD RIVER — The Elks Preschool Vision Screening Program provided vision screenings to Hood River students at Mid-Columbia Children’s Council (MCCC) preschools, marking the 75th anniversary of The Oregon State Elks Association supporting pediatric eye care in the state.

If you ask someone to picture a vision clinic, it’s likely they’ll think of eye charts, walls lined with models of glasses and maybe a fancy m…