Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum hosts the 5th annual Columbia River Indian Autumn on Saturday, November 4, 2023, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free and features artisans, musicians, cultural dancers, storytellers, food, and vendors from the Columbia River’s Native community and beyond. Salmon bake lunch tickets are on sale now at the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum.

TD city residents with service to a 32-gallon trash can will see their rate increase 10 cents to $21.89 per month. This includes the Household Hazardous Waste surcharge of $1.40. The Dalles Disposal offers free service to seniors 85 years and older. It also supports multiple community cleanups at no cost to volunteers or weekend warriors.

This morning at approximately 10 a.m., Wasco County 911 received multiple reports of a delivery truck that had gone into the Columbia River at Milepost 99 near Celilo Park. The Wasco County Sheriff's Office and Oregon State Police responded as well as Mid Columbia Fire & Rescue, Umatilla Fire (in the area for training), and ODOT.

At the end of today, Oct. 25th, we have received 2447 ballots back from our 14,659 eligible voters for a 16.69% participation rate. 

In a split vote, The Dalles City Council approved a new ordinance that will require businesses utilizing shopping carts to retrieve them within 72 hours of them being reported abandoned. 

Crews with Velo Solutions have worked through the wind and rain in the past few days as they are putting the humps in the new pump… track, that is. The park will provide, yet another free and friendly recreational opportunity for local kids and adults, when it comes online in weeks to come.

Throughout these races on Oct. 19 at the Goldendale Golf Course, coaches and spectators alike were trying to determine where their teams sat for the overall title. At the end of the day, the Goldendale Timberwolves edged out Cle Elum/Rosyln for the first-place hardware.

Earlier today a car hit a pole at approx. 2719 Skyline Rd. The good news is we're told the driver is ok. The bad news is the pole is not going to survive. The crew is responding and getting geared up to take an outage to replace the pole. There will be 23 total meters affected.

At the end of the day on Oct. 23, Wasco County Elections Clerk Lisa Gambee and her staff received 1,348 ballots back from our 14,693 eligible voters for a 9.17% participation rate. It appears locals are quite invested in voting in this off-election as the North Wasco County School District is proposing a 30-year $140 million bond to build a new high school at the SE corner of the Wahtonka High School property.

Reading is a critical skill for helping kids start, and stay, on a path to success in school and beyond. Across Oregon, students in early grades are still behind in reading skills as a result of the pandemic, which is a concern not only for educators and parents but for the entire community.

The Columbia Gorge Museum is thrilled to present the extraordinary work of artist Christopher Pothier, whose award-winning contemporary paintings explore an insatiable fascination with the chaos of human nature. Utilizing his prowess with classical oil painting techniques, he employs modern imagery to tell stories.

There’s a humanity to her unique artistic process—turning clothes into memorial quilts for grieving families—that’s impossible to ignore, particularly when you’re standing in front of the quilts themselves. How it must feel to spend most of one's time making things that one won't likely ever encounter again…

The City of The Dalles water service line survey has been mailed out to every water customer in the City’s service area. The City of The Dalles has no known lead service lines in our system. However, to comply with the Federal Lead and Copper Rule Revised, the City must record an inventory of all materials in our system from the water main to where the service line connects to your building.

For thirty years Steve Hinatsu- a 1972 Wahtonka High Grad - was a coach, referee, and volunteer in other sports besides football here in The Dalles. He likes the friendliness of The Dalles. And, it is a town that has shown that providing a good school environment helps raise educated, caring, responsible adults.

The Mid-Columbia Fire & Rescue team is currently stationed on Third Street near Clock Tower Ales in The Dalles, collecting donations for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and other important causes. The event, taking place on October 18, is drawing the community's attention and support.

The Dalles, Ore., Oct. 18, 2023 - Josh Konell, seen above in the video maneuvering the Caterpillar excavator weighing in at around 55,000 pounds gingerly takes down each board of the roof trusses at Tony’s Town & Country this morning.

How can we in good conscience stunt the growth of our youth? These are the people who, if nurtured, can do the most to enable our community to flourish. We ask then, who is going to care for our youth if we voters do not?

It reigns still, needles intact and brown, dead, on the steep slope of the basalt cliff to the south, close to the property line. This majestic tree may well have been 300 years old or more. Ponderosas can live 500 years. Imagine its history: a pine cone sprouting before the Lewis and Clark expedition opened up the West…

At the heart of it, it is refreshing to see neighbors and friends coming together to make an overall improvement to the community and possibly motivate others who see them to think about what they might do to make The Dalles a better place to live.

Rough Duty - Dessert Judges Ken Talley, Jeff Wavrunek and Rachel Cole Miller at The Dalles Farmer’s Market had to make their way through dozens of delectables on Saturday, Oct. 14.