Public meetings for week of Nov. 20
Monday Clark Public Utilities, Operations Service Center – Education Center 8600 N.E. 117th Ave. Vancouver. • 9 a.m., special meeting: public comment, 2017 budget workshop. Vancouver Housing Authority,...
View ArticleWeather Eye: Drop in temperatures seems to signal approaching holidays
Is the cooler weather getting you in the holiday spirit? It was quite a change last week, diving from the 60s close to 70 degrees down to the 30s and 40s. Did you have a frost early Friday morning in...
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One year later, camping ordinance yields little change for area’s homeless
Most people spent Fourth of July celebrating America in all its star-spangled red, white and blue glory. That afternoon, Steven Crews was smoking in his tent on the Vancouver waterfront. He’d been...
View ArticleHike in park impact fees raises concerns
Clark County is poised to increase developer impact fees to generate more money to purchase new land for parks and maintain existing ones. However, after the fee rate has remained flat for 13 years,...
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Snapshot of the divide: Like America, Clark County split
AMBOY — Thom Rogers can tell you exactly how many homeless veterans live in the Amboy area. “Twenty-nine,” he said. Rogers is a cook at the Countree Kitchen & Timbers Saloon in rural Amboy. He’s...
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Clark County’s three tea houses offer a warm diversion
As fall winds down and gives way to winter, coming indoors to enjoy a relaxing spot of tea seems more appropriate than ever. Add an array of sumptuous sandwiches and decadent desserts and you have a...
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670 Shoeboxes: Family floods donation program with gifts
FELIDA — Volunteers at Felida Bible Church were packing up donated Christmas gifts for children overseas Sunday afternoon when they got an exciting announcement: They were about to get a whole lot...
View ArticleMan stabbed in Uptown Village fight
Police searched Sunday for a man who stabbed another man in the arm outside of a Starbucks coffee shop in Vancouver’s Uptown Village. Two transient men were fighting around 7:30 a.m. at 2420 Main St....
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Medication shows promise in fight against opioid addiction
Dr. Raghuram Bhat will begin prescribing Suboxone to patients in just a few weeks. Bhat, who serves as chief medical officer for Columbia River Mental Health Services, said that as soon as his...
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4 places in Clark County with free Thanksgiving meals
Several groups in Clark County are making sure nobody is hungry or lonely for Thanksgiving. Here are four places you can go to eat a free Thanksgiving meal: • Rich Melnick, Chuck Chronis and Mark...
View ArticleBoy, 17, arrested after threats to Heritage HS students, staff
A 17-year-old boy was arrested after Clark County sheriff’s deputies say he made threats of violence against students and faculty at Heritage High School. The sheriff’s office said that deputies...
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Police: Vancouver man detonated explosives at apartments
A Vancouver man faces arson charges after police said he detonated explosives twice in the past four months at an east Vancouver apartment complex. The first incident was reported at about 4:30 a.m. on...
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Owner of nuisance house appears in court on drug, firearms allegations
The owner of a dilapidated house that sits across the street from Covington Middle School appeared Monday in Clark County Superior Court on multiple drug and firearms allegations. William Gregory...
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Kindness key to calm politics talk over Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a time for turkey, family, football — and politics. For many, politics inevitably becomes a topic of discussion at family gatherings. And after a particularly contentious election...
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Little learners make art at Grow and Learn
Sometimes learning means getting your hands dirty. Local parents brought their toddlers to a 1-2-3 Grow and Learn session Monday afternoon at Walnut Grove Elementary School. At the program,...
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Landlord faces charges for alleged sexual attack
The attorney for a local landlord on trial for allegedly making unwanted sexual contact with a client while showing her a vacant unit argued that this is a case of “he-said, she-said” and that it was a...
View ArticleWoman accused in cleaver attack
A woman accused of swinging a meat cleaver at her neighbors in the middle of the night made a first appearance in Clark County Superior Court. Qui Thi Phan, 56, appeared Monday on suspicion of two...
View ArticlePickup used as weapon
A Ridgefield man who said he struggles with alcohol abuse allegedly drove his pickup into several parked vehicles Thursday night before hitting and pinning a man between his truck and a trailer,...
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Firefighters discover homicide scene at Woodland house fire
Firefighters discovered a homicide scene after responding to an early morning fire Tuesday at a Woodland home. Crews with Clark County Fire & Rescue responded to a reported fire at 2145 Dahlia St....
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Mount Hood Meadows anticipates Friday opening
Mount Hood Meadows says it anticipates operating a limited number of chairlifts as early as Friday. Several feet of snow are forecast to fall, according to the National Weather Service. “As soon as we...
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