Mosier News

School in North Wasco County will look a lot different this fall. That's because the district has had to make some drastic changes in the face of an 11-percent revenue shortfall.

Greater community awareness is perhaps the biggest thing the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center can expect from the Oregon Solutions process, which will hold its concluding event on July 15.

'Oregon Wildflowers: A Children's Field Guide to the State's Most Common Flowers' by Beverly Magley.

Bibi Gaston is a successful landscape architect based in The Dalles who has worked on major restoration projects on the Columbia River Highway, including the Mosier Twin Tunnels.

On the Central Oregon Community College campus, the lodgepole pine trees are all about the same age.

Pride 2009 brought thousands to downtown Portland as they enjoyed a colorful, uniquely Portland, display of freedom and equal rights.

Cherry fruit fly models developed by Oregon State University indicate that the cherry fruit fly emerged in Dallesport on May 29.

A cyclist exits the Twin Tunnels on the Mosier side of the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail.

One hundred and fifty students from South Medford High School and another 125 from Wilson and Orchard Hill Elementary schools converged on a grassy field next to Bear Creek at the U.S. Cellular Community Park Wednesday to create a piece of living art they couldn't even see - until it was all over.

Taking their show on the road, members of the Wasco County Court got a little lost on the way to their first out-of-town gig.

By Sam Craig of The Chronicle Home town looking run-down? Parks overrun with trash? Bursting at the seams with civic pride? SOLV Oregon, in partnership with Oregon 150, is organizing numerous events across the gorge - and the rest of the state - to make public areas sparkle like new again.

Thank goodness the highway engineers built a loop instead of a tunnel on the Historic Columbia River Highway at Rowena.

Weren't the old median barriers 'perfectly good?' By Rodger Nichols of The Chronicle State legislators are in the busiest of times in Salem these days as major pieces of legislation start to move through the system.

A new pocket map offers an insider's guide to road cycling in and around The Dalles, in the beautiful Columbia River Gorge.

A second Insiders Tour of the Historic Columbia River Highway - this time celebrating spring at the east end of the historic roadway through the gorge - will start at Cascade Locks at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 18.

By Sam Craig of The Chronicle This week, the finalists who are vying for the position of superintendent at the Columbia Gorge Education Service District will be taking a look at what the job entails and getting a chance to meet the public they may be serving.

Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division cited four Mosier-area men on charges of trespassing and damaging a reforested meadow on private SDS Lumber Co.

The next day at the Mosier farm, I was the designated driver for the day's afternoon deliveries.

By Kathy Gray The Chronicle Mosier's two volunteer fire districts could become one, with better funding and better ability for city and rural to work together, if voters accept a recent proposal.

By SAM CRAIG of The Chronicle The Friends of the Gorge may be taking school kids on hikes and educational adventures through one of the pieces of land they say they have big plans for in the future, but they're ...