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This will be the last year revelers can legally shoot off personal fireworks inside Vancouver city limits, and the first year fireworks rules for the unincorporated areas will split depending on where they’re used.
This year, when people can use fireworks in the unincorporated county depends on whether they’re north or south of 219th Street: For fireworks users to the north, the rules are unchanged, but south of that line, fireworks use is restricted to July 4.
Check out what is legal where this year.
Cowlitz and Mohegan tribal leaders Monday revealed the name of their casino under construction west of La Center: ilani.
The casino resort, a $500 million project being developed bySalishan-Mohegan LLC in collaboration with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, takes its name from the Cowlitz word which means “sing.”
“There is a history and a journey that is represented in this one word, ilani,” said Tanna Engdahl, Cowlitz tribal spiritual leader. “It is a memory of the songs we sang throughout the centuries in the long journey to this time.”
Get more details on the Cowlitz casino.
After a marathon meeting Tuesday, the Clark County council ended three years of work by adopting its 20-year growth plan update.
The final plan, which the council considered in a seven-hour hearing, includes smaller lot sizes in rural Clark County, expands the urban growth areas of some of the county’s cities and raises some school impact fees.
The lengthy process came without surprises, but nonetheless felt like Republican Councilor David Madore’s last stand for Alternative 4. Madore first proposed that controversial zoning alternative, which would have allowed for even smaller lots across rural Clark County, about a year ago, but the Clark County council rejected the plan at a meeting earlier this year.
Read more about the plan submitted to the state.
According to newspaper folklore, there was plenty of beer drinking going on between editions back in the day.
So it’s only fitting that one of Vancouver’s newest breweries should be housed in The Columbian’s former downtown home on the corner of Evergreen Boulevard and Broadway. What’s even more fitting is that the owner of Trusty Brewing Co. has a background in printing.
“That put an extra plus on this location,” Gary Paul said Thursday amid wood walls and wide windows as a few fermenters bubbled in the basement below.
Learn more about downtown’s latest brewery.
Bass, crappie and channel catfish may not be prevalent in Southwest Washington, but they can be found in a lot more locations than anglers realize.
“This region is so centered on salmon, but we also have a lot of warm-water fish,’’ said Stacie Kelsey of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife’s inland fish program at a recent meeting of the Oregon Bass and Panfish Club.
“It’s warm-water and trout fishing that drives license sales in Washington,’’ she said. “Warm-water fish are a great opportunity to gets kids started fishing.’’
Get all of the scoop on warm-water fishing.
