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“Death of Celilo Falls” Offers Look At Pivotal History in the Gorge
When it comes to a top-shelf history of American Indians in the West, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee is the perennial classic. And for those in the Northwest, particularly on the east side of the...
View ArticleRailroad Plans Will Run Us Over, Say Windsurfers
A railroad company will be constructing a mile and a half of siding this year near one of the Gorge’s primo windsurfing and kiteboarding spots, Doug’s Beach, just east of Lyle. So reports the White...
View ArticleA Big Week for the Cascade Locks Casino
It was a big week for the proposed Warm Springs casino in Cascade Locks: A number of local officials, including Hood River County Commissioner Carol York, traveled to testify at a Senate hearing; and...
View ArticleThe Secret, Lost Lives of Farmers
by Tomi Owens Mark and Rhonda Fischer own an orchard in the Hood River Valley near Parkdale, Oregon. Like the orchard, skiing is a Fischer family tradition. Mark’s parents taught him and Rodney and...
View Article“Big Look” Takes Off, Treading Shifting Sands
by Sam Lowry A scholarly Frenchman, once asked about rap music, said he thought it would be the savior of creativity in language ... or something like that. It’s clear what he was saying: Get used to...
View ArticleGorge Air: Many Pollution Sources, Small Steps Toward Cleaner Air
If there’s one thing more vital than commerce, more important than jobs, it’s air. And in the Columbia Gorge, the air is so-so; it’s cleaner than downtown Vegas, say researchers, but haze from dust and...
View ArticleView From the Director’s Seat
Martha Bennett has been at the helm of one of the newest, most controversial and singularly important local governments — the Columbia Gorge Commission — for nearly five years. Next month, she’ll be...
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Never a Dull Moment When Jack’s in Town
The Dalles is a plain-speaking sort of place and the perfect venue to host Jack Ohman, a straight-shooting political cartoonist. In the cozy comfort of the "Fireplace Room" in The Dalles Civic...
View ArticleBroughton Hopes to Transform Lumber Mill Into Windsurfing Resort
With a recent purchase of property above Cape Horn, the Washington side of the Columbia Gorge may get its own equivalent of the Crown Point viewing area ... Now, it has its own casino-like project,...
View ArticleGorge Windmills Make the Washington Post
A Washington Post columnist, Anne Applebaum, is tilting against anti-windmill activists who are resisting wind-power projects around the country. Some of them say wind-powered generators are unsightly;...
View ArticleNew West Daily Roundup for May 3, 2016
Today in New West news: EA released for Washington port proposed for Western coal, Ultra Petroleum files for bankruptcy, sage grouse provisions tucked into National Defense Authorization Act, and...
View ArticleNew West Daily Roundup for Aug. 31, 2016
Today in New West news: climate change and the pika, Wyoming sage grouse numbers up, and Blue Marble Biomaterials brings home the bacon. The pika, “cousin” to rabbits and hares, is a small mammal found...
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