Celebrate Christmas in small-town style at the White Salmon Tree Lighting on December 5th! Enjoy dazzling lights, s’mores, cookies, and a Santa visit. Gather with neighbors for this festive community tradition. Visit communitypartnersbws.org for details!
Taste of the Town: El Puerto De Angeles III By Angie Helvey, Contributing Writer | Photos by Henry Schifter Hood River offers an array of attractions, from its stunning vistas
Exciting news – our friends at Affordable Floors Abbey Carpet have been nominated as the Best Floor Covering Shop in Columbia River Gorge for 2023!
Chef and owner Krzysztof “Kris” Ukleja migrated to the United States from Poland in 1996 and worked in Hood River at another restaurant before he and three partners purchased the Mesquitery in 2001.
Summer’s a great time to focus on home improvement tasks and Swell City Décor has an excellent selection of products to meet your every need. Hosting one of the largest and most beautiful showrooms in the area, owners Dayna Stallsworth and Shane Sears invite you to drop by their “one-stop shop” and peruse the showroom. You’ll want to see it for yourself!
Athletes compete for fun in Hood River. The Hood River Special Olympics program has about 50 athletes of all ages participating in sports year round, Meckoll said. They compete in everything from bocce ball, bowling and basketball to track and field, swimming and skiing.
K’Den McMullin’s senior year at Canby High School, it’s safe to say, has not gone quite the way he had planned.
It started off great. McMullin was selected by coaches and his fellow players to be one of the senior captains of the reinvigorated Canby Cougar football team.
McMullin, a running back, said the community excitement surrounding the team and the morale among the players was at an all-time high under new head coach Jimmy Joyce and his staff. Then, disaster struck on homecoming night last October against visiting Lakeridge.
It was a close game, and McMullin got the hand-off from quarterback Mikey Gibson on a critical fourth-down situation. It was his job to keep the drive alive, and he did. But the cost was pretty steep.