'Stolen Sweets'

SWING JAZZ band The Stolen Sweets, including The Dalles native Erin Sutherland, second from left, perform Wednesday at The Dalles City Park for the final Music in the Park concert of the season. Mark B. Gibson photo

Riverfront Trail makes final push

Local donations would leverage $1.5M state grant

Riverfront Trail supporters have launched what they hope will be their last big push to complete the 10-mile trail at The Dalles’ front door.
They are hoping to raise $170,482 locally as the match for an approximately $1.5 million grant to complete the last remaining sections of the trail. A little more than 10 percent of the project’s $1.66 million total cost must be raised to qualify for the Transportation Enhancement Grant funding from the Oregon Department of Transportation.

Shots draw police to high school

     Police officers from multiple agencies responded to The Dalles Wahtonka High School at 3:44 p.m. yesterday on what at first was a report of shots fired. The shots, however, were fired from a pellet gun.
   “Somebody fired a pellet gun and broke a window at the high school. The original call came in as shots fired but it was a pellet gun,” said The Dalles Police Capt. Ed Goodman.
   Goodman said school staff initially made the call that gun shots were fired.
   He said the caller thought they heard the impact of several shots through the glass.
   “We sealed off the area and started to evacuate the area, but we determined a firearm was not involved,” he said..

Bernanke: not too big to fail

     WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a panel investigating the financial crisis that regulators must be ready to shutter the largest institutions if they threaten to bring down the financial system.
   “If the crisis has a single lesson, it is that the too-big-to-fail problem must be solved,” Bernanke said Thursday while testifying before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
   Bernanke also said it was impossible for the Fed to rescue Lehman Brothers from bankruptcy in 2008 because the Wall Street firm lacked sufficient collateral to secure a loan. Lehman’s former chief executive told the panel a day earlier that the firm could have been saved, but regulators refused to provide help.