CCCNews Pod - Honest Local News for the Mid Columbia, Listeners Edition
Columbia Community Connection, headquartered in The Dalles, Oregon offers honest, relevant, and positively focused local news to folks across the Mid-Columbia region.
Our podcast, the CCCNews Podcast, invited guests, journalists, and other storytellers to help us tell the stories that bring us closer together in this community we call home.
You can read our content and learn more about us at CCCNews.com
Podcasting since 2023 • 47 episodes
CCCNews Pod - Honest Local News for the Mid Columbia, Listeners Edition
Latest Episodes
CCCNews Podcast: Community Action Agency Reports Rising Housing Need Across Region
Columbia Gorge Community Action is expanding services for people experiencing housing instability as demand continues to grow across Wasco, Hood River and Sherman counties, agency leaders said during a recent podcast interview.Lesley Oat...
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CCCNews Podcast: Local officials discuss new effort to reduce repeat low-level crime offenses
Wasco County Sheriff Lane Magill, Hood River County District Attorney Matthew Ellis, Program Manager Rebecca Schilling, and Lead Navigator Nick Smallmon described the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program as a voluntary alternative ...
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Clarifications on the Recent Column about Google Taxes with Commissioner Scott Hage and Mayor Mayes
The Millennial Perspective, a column by Robin DenningThe Dalles, Ore., Dec. 23, 2025 - When I wrote a
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CCCNews Podcast: Providers Unite to Launch Mental-Health Hub in White Salmon
The CCS News Podcast sat down this week with three leaders behind the new Community Roots Wellness Hub in White Salmon, a collaborative mental health and community-services space that opened earlier this fall inside the former Comprehensive Hea...
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CCCNews Podcast: Gorge Farmer Collective Puts Food Power Back in Growers’ Hands
On the latest CCCNews Podcast, Executive Director and co-founder Kiara Kashubs described how the Gorge Farmer Collective started in March 2020, when farmers suddenly lost access to restaurants and markets. What began with five farms expe...
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