Unemployment rates in Oregon Mid-Columbia counties in April remained about the same as they were in March.  Oregon Employment Department statistics put Wasco County’s April rate at six-point-six percent, the same as in March and down four-tenths of a point from April one year ago.  Hood River County checked in last month at five-point-four percent…down a tenth-of-a-point from March and nine-tenths of a point from one year ago.  And Sherman County’s April unemployment rate was six-point-two percent, down a tenth-of-a-point from March and from seven-point-five percent in April 2013.