Conclusion of a waterline installation on Hostetler Street between 2nd and 6th in The Dalles will require a closure of that segment of the street between Monday and Tuesday. Crestline Construction says construction hours are anticipated 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. The road will remain closed during construction and overnight Monday evening, but will be reopened Tuesday evening. Road closure and detours will be posted. Through traffic on 2nd Street between Hostetler and Webber Streets will not have access to this small segment of Hostetler. Please avoid this area and use alternate routes.

Baseball

Hood River Valley splits with Redmond, winning 4-3 and losing 11-8:  The Eagles scored four runs in the fourth inning of game one, with Ryles Buckley driving in a pair and Drew Beam and Joe Reitz also coming up with RBI’s.  HRV’s Mason Spellecy had a huge second game with two home runs, a double, and five runs batted in, but the Panthers scored in each of the first five innings to win the nightcap.

  Boys Soccer

Seton Catholic 3, Columbia 0

The State Library of Oregon has awarded the Oregon Historical Society a grant to process and make publicly accessible the Yasui Brothers records, a large manuscript collection preserved in OHS’s research library.  Dating primarily from 1905 to 1942, the collection consists of over 180 linear feet of business and personal materials, over half of which is written in a pre-World War II Japanese language script that is difficult to translate.  Homer Yasui donated the records to OHS in 1991, but they have never been fully processed.  The records document the experiences and contributions of businessman and noted community leader Masuo Yasui, Homer Yasui’s father, and his family of first- and second-generation Japanese immigrants who lived in Hood River during the first four decades of the twentieth century.  Grant funds will support extensible processing of this collection, which includes the hiring of a professional archivist for the duration of the project and the engagement of contract translators to appropriately arrange and describe the bulk of the several thousand records in this collection, perform selective digitization and translation of the text, and rehouse documents for preservation.

Klickitat PUD will have a planned a power outage at its Bingen substation early Saturday morning.  The outage will start Friday night at 11:59 and continue until Saturday morning at 3 a.m.  This outage will be for Klickitat PUD to perform critical substation maintenance and will affect all customers in the towns of Bingen and White Salmon.  The surrounding areas also affected are Snowden, Pucker Huddle, West Jewett Blvd., Courtney Rd., Bill Moore Rd. and Panakanic Rd.  If you have any questions, call the Klickitat PUD Operations Department at 800-548-8357.

Port of Hood River Executive Director Michael McElwee says he will retire in early July.  McElwee has served in the position since July of 2006.  During his tenure the Hood River waterfront underwent a transformation with construction of several recreational facilities utilizing state and federal grant funding and significant private investment in light industrial and commercial developments.  The Port has also increased efforts to replace the Hood River-White Salmon Interstate bridge, upgraded the Ken Jernstedt Airfield and the Hood River Marina, and purchased the Lower Hanel Mill property, which the Port then converted from a brownfield to shovel-ready development site.  McElwee’s tenure of 16 years equals that of James O’ Banion who served as the Port’s Executive Director between 1980 and 1994, and an additional two years of service that took place after his retirement.  McElwee says he is looking forward to other life pursuits and intends to continue public service activities in Hood River.

Mid-Columbia Medical Center has appointed Jayme Thompson-Mason as its new chief nursing officer. In her more than two decades with MCMC, Thompson-Mason has served as a staff nurse in the emergency department, a nursing house supervisor and most recently as the director of emergency services, emergency management and nursing resources. In her new role, Thompson-Mason will oversee quality and safety initiatives, patient care delivery models, strategic and operational planning for nursing services, as well as clinical education, and development for 205 nurses across the MCMC health system, which includes the hospital and outpatient clinics. Thompson-Mason is replacing Don Wenzler, who will be retiring from MCMC later this month.

Softball

Stevenson sweeps Kalama 8-2 and 14-7

  Track and Field

Hood River Valley’s girls held off Scappoose and Parkrose in a triangular meet at Scappoose.  Simone Tillman won both the 200 and 400 meters for the Eagles.  The HRV boys were second to Scappoose.  Eliot Hawley won both the 800 and 1500 meters for Hood River.

  Goldendale’s Alden Williams won both the boys’ 800 and 1500 meters at the W. Scott Sexton Classic in Mabton.

  Girls Lacrosse

Tualatin 11, Hood River Valley 7

The Dalles Community Clean-up returns Saturday for the first time in three years.  Cindy Keever of The Dalles Public Works Department says the goal is to give people a chance to clean-up their properties and help their neighbors.  The clean-up will be headquartered at the Wasco County Yard at West 9th and Walnut from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.  There will be a re-use fair where people can leave usable items they no longer want, and pick out what they can use.  For more information or to volunteer to help with the event, call The Dalles Public Works at 541-506-2004.

Columbia Riverkeeper’s Board of Directors has selected Lauren Goldberg as the organization’s new Executive Director starting August 1.  Goldberg joined Columbia Riverkeeper in 2006 as a law clerk, became a staff attorney in 2008, and served as the legal and program director since 2016.  She graduated cum laude from Lewis and Clark Law School with a certificate in Environmental Law.  As Executive Director, Goldberg will oversee all aspects of the organization’s legal and policy work, operations, and development.  Brett VandenHeuvel, who has led the organization since 2009, will step down on August 1 to start a national consulting practice focused on climate and clean water strategies.  He will join Columbia Riverkeeper’s board of directors.

The Oregon Secretary of State’s office is reminding voters of a new law in the state known as the “postmark rule.” It says that any ballot postmarked by Election Day is considered on time even if it arrives at elections offices up to seven days after the election. Voters may be able to put their ballots in the mail as late as Election Day if their mail is collected by the U.S. Postal Service and postmarked that day. The new law will mean that the total number of votes cast in the election will increase in the days following Election Day. The Secretary of State’s office emphasizes they will not be “late” votes, and every vote tallied by elections officials will have been cast on time. The new law could mean that very close contests will not be decided on election night. The Oregon Legislature passed the postmark rule into law in 2021.