By Justin Andress, For The Mountain Times Since 2001, the Mt. Hood Cultural Center and Museum has served as both a touchstone for mountain locals exploring their community’s past and a point of welcome for visitors to our region of Oregon. For the last two decades, a large part of that duty fell to the museum’s curator, Lloyd Musser. At the end of 2024, Musser stepped down from his duties and passed the reins to Mt. Hood fixture Dave Winterling. Sadly, Musser passed away shor

By Amber Ford, For The Mountain Times Unique in color and shape, the works of local pottery artist Mayumi Sekigawa are a gentle and beautiful reminder that art is not necessarily always on a canvas. A lover of art since childhood, Sekigawa has not always seen herself as an artist, but more so a person dedicated to creating pieces that make people happy. “I’ve never thought about myself as an artist until one day one of my artist friends, Katie Simpson (an amazing painter in C

By Justin Andress, For The Mountain Times It’s no secret that many businesses on Mt. Hood are owned or operated by enterprising women. Now, The Mountain Times is taking a small step toward honoring the capability and innovation of these trailblazing women with a special Women in Business magazine supplement. “Women have owned and operated businesses on the Mountain for many years, probably starting when the pioneers finally made it to Oregon,” says Peggy Wallace with the Moun

By Rep. Jeff Helfrich For The Mountain Times We are nearing the halfway point of the 2025 Legislative Session. Here shortly, we will have our “First Chamber Deadline,” meaning in order for a bill to still be alive, it must have passed its chamber of origin. The deadlines and rules are two of the first bills passed in each legislative session. This year it was HCR 15 that established the deadlines back in January. For every rule however, there always seems to be an exception.

As you might recall several years ago we were told that the OLD Sandy High school was uninhabitable as there were too many problems, including environmental and It needed to be torn down and we needed to pass a bond measure to build a NEW Sandy High school. Today the old high school is now a Middle School that has been remodeled. At the present time we are being told that the existing Fire Station cannot be remodeled and it needs to be relocated. Explain why!! We are told tha