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Verbatim for May 15, 2024: Alleged Cattle Rustlers Taken; Big Still Found: Willard Quinn and Roscoe Wilson Are Arrested in City: Farmers Aid Sheriff: Wasco Authorites Believe Ring Leaders Are Safely In Jail.

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With the arrest on the streets of this city last night of Willard Quinn and Roscoe Wilson, the leaders of a ring of horse and cattle rustlers and moonshiners in Wasco county, who have been operating under cover for the past three years, are safely behind bars, it is alleged

New 4-H Fair Ambassadors named
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New 4-H Fair Ambassadors named

  • Staff report Columbia Gorge News
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HOOD RIVER — Hood River 4-H welcomes new 4-H Fair Ambassadors for 2024 fair season: Hailey Harjo of Hood River and Karyna Marquez of Odell.

CHS students compete at FFA public speaking event
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CHS students compete at FFA public speaking event

  • By Emily Gehrig; edited by Sara Miller
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WHITE SALMON — On Feb. 1, Columbia High School Future Farmers of America (FFA) members Raina McAllister and Josie Dickey competed in the District 8 FFA Extemporaneous Public Speaking career development event. They traveled to Vancouver, Wash., and competed against FFA members from Southwest Washington.

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Animals kept police busy in 2023

  • By Flora Gibson Columbia Gorge News
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WASCO COUNTY — No animal can complicate a rural police officers’ day like the humble dog, county and city police logs from 2023 attest.

As the weekly tally of dogs at large, dogs going missing, and dogs with alleged barking habits rises, other animals join the show.