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Here are some of the stories that grabbed our readers’ attention this weekend.
Clark County council Chair Marc Boldt said he regularly shows up at the Dragonfly Cafe on the ground floor of the county’s Public Service Center to get some face time with county employees. For much of May, he got an earful.
Earlier that month, the council unexpectedly voted to oust Mark McCauley as county manager. McCauley had started working at the county in 2001 and had developed a close bond with the rank-and-file while working his way up to the county’s top executive position.
“ ‘We’re shocked,’ ” Boldt recalled hearing from employees about McCauley. “They didn’t understand why we did this.”
Read more on how the home rule charter is working.
Oregon lawmakers got one step closer to passing a massive transportation package that could bring rush-hour tolls to interstates 5 and 205, among other new taxes and fees to improve the state’s declining infrastructure.
The Oregon Senate on Thursday approved the $5.3 billion transportation bill approved by the Oregon House the day before and sent it to Gov. Kate Brown to be signed into law.
The bill would create a transportation commission that would seek approval from the Federal Highway Administration by Dec. 31, 2018, to put tolls on I-205 and I-5 beginning at the state line and ending where the two connect near Tualatin, Ore.
Learn more about what Oregon lawmakers are planning.
River Maiden Artisan Coffee dies hard.
The cafe, known as much for coffee as for Vancouver pride and a penchant for 1980s culture, announced this week that it will open a drive-thru location on MacArthur Boulevard while it looks for a new, permanent home.
The new location is a stone’s throw from its previous home at 602 N. Devine Road, where it had operated since December 2005. Cafe owners Melissa Layman and Aaron Flies couldn’t agree with landlords on a new, 10-year lease before it expired at the end of June.
Read more about the new location.
Clark College tuition will go up for the first time in five years in light of the recently approved state budget, the community college announced this week.
For students who live in Washington and bordering Oregon counties, tuition will increase by 2.2 percent to cover a 2 percent raise for classified college employees and a 2.3 percent raise for faculty, spokesman Chato Hazelbaker said.
Learn more about the tuition increase.
Amy Bounds wants to enjoy the outdoors with her family. The hitch: Her husband uses a wheelchair.
The 45-year-old Vancouver woman posed this question to Clark Asks: “What outdoor activities — such as camping, hiking, swimming and exploring — are available in Clark County for people in a wheelchair?”
Find places to enjoy the outdoors that have easy wheelchair access.
The oldest is chasing his major league dream in Wisconsin.
In West Virginia, the middle brother also has his sights on “the show.”
And the youngest? His big-league pursuit has led him to Tennessee.
Their baseball paths have diverged, but they lead back to the same place.
Learn more about the Whalen brothers.
