Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley will hold town halls with in-person community conversations in Hood River and Wasco Counties on Friday. The town halls will be held at the Mt.Hood Town Hall on 6575 Highway 35 in Hood River County on Friday at 11 a.m., and then Merkley moves on to the Mid-Columbia Senior Center at 1112 West 9th in The Dalles at 2 p.m. for another session. These sessions will bring the total of town halls Merkley will have done so far this year to 20. Merkley says the conversations help lay out the current interests and needs of Oregonians to advise his work.