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Two Vancouver police detectives shot and killed an armed man during a traffic stop Thursday afternoon in Hazel Dell.
The shooting was reported at 1:40 p.m. near the intersection of Northeast 78th Street and Northeast 25th Avenue. An officer radioed “shots fired!”
Six minutes earlier, officers had stopped an eastbound, dark-colored Kia sedan at that location, which is in an unincorporated suburban area patrolled by the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.
Chef B.J. Smith is following his heart in his plan to open Smitty’s Original Coney Island, a hot dog- and sandwich-focused restaurant and bar at The Mill shopping center in Vancouver’s North Garrison Heights neighborhood.
Smith is closely hewing to the menu and feel of the original Smitty’s — a restaurant operated for years by his parents in South Bend, Ind., where he grew up.
Teaching methods have changed since Tom Fitzgerald learned to be a welder three decades ago.
“It was pretty rough,” Fitzgerald said.
How rough?
“There wasn’t a lot of training involved. You got trained and you didn’t know you were getting trained. It was just like, ‘Hey, dummy, you did that wrong.’ ”
Evergreen Public Schools faces as much as an $18 million budget deficit. But until now, the district has been relatively quiet about that fact.
Interim Superintendent Mike Merlino wants to change that.
The state Senate Transportation Committee passed a $15 billion transportation package on Wednesday that includes $450 million for a new Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River.
The project has been a priority for Clark County lawmakers, who have been seeking to restart the process with Oregon to replace the century-old bridge since 2017. The funding would come on top of the $17.5 million Gov. Jay Inslee has proposed for an office dedicated to the bridge-replacement project.
