Mt. Hood Community College has not passed a Bond Measure asking for additional money in 50 years. Improvements to its infrastructure are greatly needed due to not addressing reccurring maintenance issues over the years. If approved, the bond money will be used for repairing/replacing the many systems that are falling apart. Mt. Hood CC offers technical training in many different fields along with 2-year degrees and undergraduate classes that can be transferred to universities

GOOD BEAR BAD IVY I am not happy to rain on the Ivy Bear topiary parade — but I must. I believe the article published in our Mt Times about the Bear was interesting but should have included an advisory about Evil Ivy. English Ivy has been illegal to propagate, transport, or sell in Oregon since 2010, is banned for LIFE in Lincoln County, and should be banned in Clackamas County as well. English Ivy shouldn’t be planted or glorified in any way. Why? English Ivy ( Hedera helix)

I am writing in support of Steve Graeper’s February letter to MT regarding the importance of all homeowners making it a priority to help secure their property and community against wildfire. The recent Department of Forestry (ODF) letter many of us received emphasizes the importance of this work and provides useful guidance on how to start. I was then pleased to see a letter supporting this position by Shirley Morgan in the March MT, but wanted to correct a key misconception

Dear Mountain Community, Husband Ed and I are wondering if we are alone in being gob-smacked by PGE’s billing statements for February 2025? We have a tiny, one bedroom house in Brightwood we have lived in part-time for the past 15 years, and before that for 15 years part-time in a Forest Service cabin off Road 20D in Rhododendron. Despite only being at the Brightwood house for six days in February and that we always turn our electric furnace down to 55 degrees when away, our

I am writing in response to Shirley Morgan’s letter to the editor last month. Insurance companies have long had instruments to assess wildfire, flood, and storm risks. Taking away the “fire maps” does NOT take away wildfire risk. I personally know two of my mountain friends were notified that their homeowner’s insurance would be dropped due to wildfire risk. One company based it on a google overhead map and she had to prove that her wood shingle roof had been replaced with as