Mountain Gold – Hoodland Fire District hits 50
Fire Chief Mic Eby, the longest tenured member of the
Hoodland Fire District (HFD), joined the district in 1979 as a volunteer. He’s
drawn maps, staffed the Government Cam... Read more
Hwy. 26 project finish in sight
Contractors were expected to begin paving Hwy. 26 on Sunday,
Aug. 28 as the Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) “U.S. 26 Mt. Hood
Highway Safety and Preserv... Read more
County reconsiders Villages future
The saga of the Villages at Mt. Hood vs. Clackamas County
has become more like a Bertolt Brecht play than two governmental bodies trying
to solve a problem.
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Lion’s Club building in need of repairs
At the Lion’s Club’s annual Chuck Wagon Breakfast earlier
this year, a near disaster was averted when a good Samaritan helped fix a
broken dishwasher.
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‘Smoke’ rises on the Mountain
Proprietor Stewart Schmidt opened his business July 2, 2015.
Subsequent to that date, he was forced to close in order to comply with a
county marijuana zoning requirement.
... Read more
Rhody author offers holiday books
What started as a quiet form of rebellion at a conservative
Methodist seminary evolved into a home in Rhododendron next to a volcano.
Tiffany Reisz is... Read more
Lead found in Welches Middle School’s water
The Oregon Trail School District (OTSD) announced seven
fountains out of 14 and two faucets in food prep sinks out of two in Welches
Middle School contained slightly elevated le... Read more
BLM considers developing Wildwood into an overnight destination
Development at the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM)
Wildwood Recreation Site began in 1963 and was to originally go through three
phases, according to Dan Davis, Outdoor ... Read more
County ‘failures’ will be costly to Mountain residents
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has
downgraded Clackamas County’s Community Rating System (CRS) from a Class 6 to a
Class 10 which will result in a loss of ... Read more
Villages at Mt. Hood is no longer – at least for now
At a June 28 policy session the Clackamas County Board of
Commissioners (BCC) officially scuttled the Mt. Hood Villages Board – the last
vestige of political influence for... Read more
Support Group holds annual garage sale
Rochelle Simonds, Treasurer for the Hoodland Fire District
(HFD) Volunteer Support Group, noted the annual garage sale started sometime in
the 1980s as a way for the district to... Read more
Trail runner battles forest litter
In September 2014, Portland resident Erin Fitzgerald arrived
at Skibowl to help train for a mountain race in Colorado. But as she ascended
the slopes, she was shocked by how muc... Read more
Welches students show generosity in quilt raffle efforts
Welches resident and parent Stephanie Gagnon came up with a
new fundraiser last year for the Welches School’s eighth grade class: a raffle
for a custom quilt that Gagnon w... Read more
Timberline’s festival a labor of love
(MT) - (In anticipation of Timberline Lodge’s Mountain Music
Festival on Monday, Sept. 5, The Mountain Times and Jon Tullis, Director of
Public Affairs, had a question... Read more
Villages kept on ‘hiatus’ by commissioners
The Clackamas County Board of County Commissioners (BCC)
opted to keep the Villages at Mt. Hood Board of Directors “on hiatus” at a
Tuesday, June 28 policy session, ... Read more
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