Children are breathing in unhealthy air for longer periods of time as wildfires worsen across the country, according to a new study by researchers at Oregon State University’s College of Health. The study, published earlier this month in Environmental Research, found that over a 17-year span, the average number of days school children were exposed […]
Free news:Â Four Rivers Family Early Learning and Parenting Hub has created a free text messaging system to connect families with young children to local resources, activities, and events.
Free news:Â Columbia Gorge CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) will host its third annual Fall Family Run on Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Mark O. Hatfield West Trailhead in Hood River. Participants who register by Sept. 19 are guaranteed a race shirt.Â
2nd Lt. Robert J. Teskey, Gorge Composite Squadron Finance Officer, Civil Air Patrol, U.S. Air Force Auxiliary
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Free news:Â The Gorge Composite Squadron of Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is hosting an open house on Tuesday, Sept. 15 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the yellow hangar at 3650 Airport Drive. People interested in aviation are invited to attend.
Free commentary: Wasco County is among the rural communities experiencing this disparity. In 2025, 17.42 children per 1,000 entered foster care—more than twice the rate in Multnomah County.
By Tate Rosentreter | The Center Square contributor
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(The Center Square) – Medical watchdog Do No Harm’s latest report details how a network of various Colorado groups and institutions promote sex-rejecting procedures for children as well as market them using public funds.
(The Center Square) – A Southern state that banned medical gender transition for children is meanwhile financially boosting a network of doctors and therapists who promote some of those same controversial treatments.
