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HOOD RIVER — The Hood River City Council has placed a resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza on its Feb. 26 agenda for consideration and public testimony (results

HOOD RIVER — Riverside Community Church, 317 State St., is hosting a community-wide commemoration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King on his birthday, Monday, Jan. 15 at 4:30 p.m.

HOOD RIVER — Riverside Community Church invites community members to an Interfaith Vigil for peace and ceasefire in Gaza on Friday, Dec. 22 at 4 p.m. near the Christmas tree

HOOD RIVER — Our society is struggling with social isolation and disconnection with nature. Cohousing is a form of living that addresses these issues. Although there are 165 cohousing communities

HOOD RIVER — John Boonstra will moderate a free public program Tuesday, Oct. 3 on how to “flip the switch” to electricity as a power source.

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HOOD RIVER — John Boonstra will moderate a free public program Tuesday, Oct. 3 on how to “flip the switch” to electricity as a power source for everything you use.

Dear reader, At the end of each year, FM typically publishes a feature called “15 Most Interesting Seniors.” It’s always felt silly for the editors of a magazine to be the judges of who is “most interesting,” but it felt especially silly to do this in 2020, when a pandemic has spread us all across the world, far away from our campus and its definition of “interesting.” So this year, we decided to switch things up. We generated 15 seniors at random and profiled them — learning ab...