Daytime lane closures planned next week on state Highway 14
WASHOUGAL — Single-lane traffic on state Highway near 32nd Street in Washougal beginning Monday and ending Friday could lead to daytime delays. Construction crews working for the Washington Department...
View ArticleBudget includes plan to hire extra deputies
The Clark County council on Tuesday approved a plan allowing the Clark County Sheriff’s Office to hire additional deputies above and beyond what the department’s budget allows. The flexible hiring...
View ArticleMcCauley, Boldt will talk to leadership group
Clark County council Chair Marc Boldt, no party preference, and Acting County Manager Mark McCauley will speak to Leadership Clark County to kick off the organization’s premiere speaker series. Boldt...
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Morning Press: Orchards Safeway, Hazel Dell burglary, Grandparents...
Are you ready for the sun to come out? Check out our complete forecast. Here are some of the top stories this week at columbian.com. Orchards Safeway to close May 17 It’s closing time for the Safeway...
View ArticleBonneville Dam fish count 4/16
Friday — 466 adult spring chinook, 34 steelhead. Water temperature: 52.2 degrees. Visibility: 4 feet. Streamflow: 301,500 cubic feet per second.
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Fiddler comes with strings attached
Playing the fiddle has always come easily to Aarun Carter, and music has always been a part of her life. Her mother, Denise, an accomplished musician herself, competed in a fiddling contest when she...
View ArticleRazor clam digging resumes Wednesday at Long Beach
LONG BEACH — Nine days of razor clam digging on Long Beach Peninsula begins Wednesday. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife approved the digs after marine toxin tests showed the clams are...
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Press Talk: Looking for a huge raise? Try mayor
You’re feeling a little underpaid, even though all the comparable studies say you’re already making 60 percent more than others in your same position. Still, you want to make a pitch to the...
View ArticleHangar sale aids Pearson Field Education Center projects
When the weather heats up and people start the process of spring cleaning, many host a garage sale as a way to clear the clutter and make an extra buck; the events at the Pearson Field Education Center...
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Earth Day volunteers work from the ground up
The ecological diversity of Southwest Washington's landscape comes with many benefits for its residents. On Saturday, a few hundred of those residents kept those advantages in mind and decided...
View ArticleShare dinner brings in $95,700
Share Vancouver raised $95,700 Saturday at its Journey to the Far East dinner at the Hilton Vancouver Washington. The fundraising event, which included an Asian-themed dinner and several auctions,...
View ArticleNighttime lane closures on I-205 in Vancouver start Monday
Nighttime commuters traveling on northbound Interstate 205 between the Glenn Jackson Bridge and Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard should expect some congestion this week. As part of the I-205 — Mill Plain...
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Seeking justice for lives struck down
Tanya Mosh would describe her mother as a no-nonsense kind of woman. So when she joined her kids in sliding across the family's wood floors in their socks, everyone had to giggle. The memory still...
View ArticleWeather Eye: We might see more record highs this week
Our advertised warm weather has arrived, and today we will see highs around 80 degrees, up some 10 degrees from Saturday. Filtered high clouds Saturday kept our highs near 70,still way above the normal...
View ArticleDrill preps students for active shooter
Between 2000 and 2013, 117 people died in 39 school shootings across the United States. During the same time period, zero people died in fires at schools. Clark County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Granneman...
View ArticleBonneville Dam fish count 4/17
Saturday — 373 adult spring chinook, 2 jack chinook, 29 steelhead. Water temperature: 52.0 degrees. Visibility: 3.5 feet Streamflow: 315,600 cubic feet per second.
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Ridgefield-based Corwin Beverage Co. celebrates 75 years in business
When Kyle and Laura Kendall moved to Vancouver to run a Pepsi distributorship they'd just purchased with their soon-to-be son-in-law called Evergreen Beverage Co., they couldn't have imagined what the...
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Brains, artwork merge for trip to D.C.
A neuroscience outreach group that brings human brains and art into K-12 classrooms is taking its show to the nation's capital later this month. Neuroscientists, artists and students from Washington...
View ArticleBonneville Dam fish count 4/18
Sunday — 279 adult spring chinook, 2 jack chinook, 29 steelhead. Water temperature: 52.1 degrees. Visibility: 3 feet. Streamflow: 340,000 cubic feet per second.
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Morning Press: Killed by cars, mayor’s pay, Earth Day, river cruises, oil...
Hot enough for you? (Sorry, sorry … promise we won't ask that question again all summer.) Check our local weather coverage. In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the weekend:...
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