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Laurin Middle School students build birdhouses for art department
Battle Ground — Laurin Middle School art teacher Tanya Bachman’s fifth- and sixth-graders spent some time Oct. 18 building birdhouses with help from Home Depot, 330 S.E. 192nd Ave., Vancouver. The...
View ArticlePolice agencies receive pedestrian safety grant
Clark County – Clark County law enforcement agencies have received a $60,000 grant to put more officers on the streets to address pedestrian safety. The Target Zero Task Force of Clark and Skamania...
View ArticleRamp closures planned for I-5 through Friday
Vancouver – The Washington State Department of Transportation announced that several Interstate 5 ramps between Vancouver and Ridgefield will be closed at night throughout this week for...
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Woodland has plan for big band
WOODLAND — Seventy-six trombones? Woodland High School’s pep band has one. And trombonist Jim Blair hasn’t been a student musician for more than 25 years. Band director Bryana Steck wants to fill the...
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Flexible seating benefits Woodland third-graders
WOODLAND — The lesson for Megan Lascik’s class on Tuesday was learning how to write a story by creating a character and setting, and her students excitedly broke up into smaller groups to bounce ideas...
View ArticleEverybody Has A Story: His haiku went clap, clap, clap, then ha, ha, ha
In the Weekend section of The Columbian, there was an announcement for Poetry Night to be held at El Presidente, a well-known Mexican restaurant here in The Couv. The event would be hosted by...
View ArticleVancouver woman suspected of DUI injured in crash
A Vancouver woman suspected of driving under the influence of intoxicants was injured in a single-vehicle crash in Skamania County on Tuesday night. Sheryl A. Dennett, 55, was driving a 2007 Honda...
View ArticleMan gets 4.5 years in car chase, crash
A driver who crashed into another vehicle while leading police on a car chase was sentenced in Clark County Superior Court to 4.5 years in prison. Daniel J. Edstrom, 27, pleaded guilty Wednesday to...
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Teen gets 3 years in assault at Columbia River High School
A Columbia River High School student who struck a fellow student in the head with an extendable baton was sentenced Wednesday to three years imprisonment. As part of a plea agreement, Christopher G....
View ArticlePolice seek tips in shooting incident
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office is trying to find whoever was inside the car that a Vancouver man allegedly shot at as it passed by his home in Orchards last week. Deputies responded the morning of...
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Murray promotes paid sick leave in Vancouver
Don Orange shared his business philosophy with U.S. Sen. Patty Murray on Wednesday: He treats his employees well, and in return they treat him well. The owner of a Vancouver auto repair shop is a...
View ArticleWeather Eye: Prepare for dry start to Halloween with rain after dark
I know there is one category of people that are getting tired of all this rain. Can you guess? If you drive a vehicle you know the answer. Commuters! We had heavy rain in the morning commute yesterday,...
View ArticleVancouver Wildlife League to meet Wednesday
The Vancouver Wildlife League will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2108 Grand Blvd. John Long, regional director for Southwest Washington, will be the guest...
View ArticleFishing report 10/27
Salmon fishing is pretty much limited to the North Fork of the Lewis, Cowlitz and Klickitat rivers as the Columbia River is closed through the end of the year. Streamflow in the Cowlitz is a moderate...
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Camas couple partners with nonprofit to build Haitian home
After Ken and Jen Goheen helped build a new house for a Haitian family, they headed back to Camas. The next day, Hurricane Matthew blew Haiti apart. But the house is still there. Two days after the...
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Clark Talks explores Clark County economy
In this week’s episode of Clark Talks, The Columbian explores the local economy, from the big picture to the success of one business. Columbian reporters Kaitlin Gillespie and Dameon Pesanti will...
View ArticleTwo Clark County schools evacuated for gas odor
Two Clark County schools were evacuated this mornings for possible gas leaks. Students at Daybreak Primary/Middle School were briefly evacuated after a staff member smelled an odor similar to rotten...
View ArticleVancouver man in court in armed robbery case
A 27-year-old man accused of robbing a Vancouver gas station at gunpoint Wednesday night made a first appearance in Clark County Superior Court. Robert M. Blevins of Vancouver appeared Thursday on...
View ArticleExtra patrols planned over Halloween weekend
The Vancouver and Battle Ground police departments and the Washington State Patrol will put additional officers out on the roads over the weekend for extra impaired-driving patrols, according to the...
View ArticleVancouver Housing Authority OKs 2017 budget
Vancouver Housing Authority’s $55 million 2017 budget was approved Thursday during its board of directors meeting. The $55,274,241 budgeted for next year is about $3.8 million more than the $51,424,567...
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