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Here are some of the stories that grabbed readers’ attention this week.
With nearly 90 elected offices or ballot measures, the Nov. 7 Clark County general election ballot offers a graduate-level lesson in civics. Odd-year elections lack partisan races that tend to attract the electorate’s time or attention, but this year’s smaller races — there are contested races for cemetery board and sewer commissioner, for example — affect us close to home. Sometimes even one vote decides the outcome.
Today, The Columbian is writing about five of those races where voters’ decisions may have unusually lasting consequences. Learn more here.
Port of Vancouver commissioner candidate Don Orange said he’s filed a cease-and-desist order against his opponent for making what he says is a false claim that his automotive business was cited by state and federal authorities for spilling up to 1,000 gallons of toxic oil.
A flier circulated earlier this week by Kris Greene’s campaign for port commissioner claims that the alleged pollution caused by Orange’s business runs contrary to his professed concern for the environment and opposition to a proposed oil terminal at the port.
Read more about claims.
CAMAS — Beating the previously unbeaten Camas Papermakers, the state’s top-ranked team all season, might have seemed surprising.
But that’s just it, the Union Titans say. It’s surprising to no one inside of the black, red and silver.
The heart, the determination, the resiliency willed their way to win.
Especially in this game.
What visiting Union did Friday, a 14-13 come-from-behind victory, is what no 4A Greater St. Helens League team has done since the Papermakers entered the league in 2012. It’s what no team has done during the previous 58 regular-season games.
Read more about all of the action. And keep up with all of the prep high school playoffs at Columbian.com.
For many, the idea of American warships and Humvees being equipped with lasers sounds like science fiction.
For one Vancouver company, it’s a goal.
nLight, an industrial laser manufacturer at 5408 N.E. 88th St., announced this month it won a $1.93 million contract to research and help develop new components for military-grade lasers. The contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research arm of the U.S. military.
See what is in store for Vancouver laser maker nLight.
Dense underbrush and mysterious ivy-covered lumps dot the modern hillside near Harney Elementary School, but underneath that landscape lies a creepy tale of bad financing, poor management and missing bodies.
Vancouver’s Columbia Memorial Mausoleum, which was demolished in 1959, was a partially constructed concrete monstrosity that loomed over the Columbia River for more than 25 years. Its story is a winding tale of high hopes, ballooning costs and lost records.
But it didn’t start out that way.
Learn more about the mausoleum’s rise and help us choose the next Clark Asks story to report on.
