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Here are some of the stories that were most popular this week with Columbian readers.
“We’re not going to stop homelessness because we don’t like it.”
Michael Eddy sat back in his chair, looking at the rows of modular shelters lining the cul-de-sac in Vancouver’s North Image neighborhood. He could place where his shelter in the Safe Stay Community stood, which he was scheduled to move out of in a matter of days. The transition process, although overwhelming, was a necessary reset — one that saved Eddy’s life.
Construction of a downtown Vancouver New Seasons market is due to begin May 2, bringing the only grocery store to the growing city center by the third quarter of 2023.
Last month, the city of Vancouver issued a land-use decision for the lot, which is at 1506 Main St. Now the project is in the building permit and final engineering review stage, according to Chad Eiken, the city’s director of community and economic development.
Tolling federally funded highways like Interstate 5 and Interstate 205 is illegal, except when it’s not. So could tolls be used to pay part of the cost of replacing the Interstate 5 Bridge?
Under federal law, Title 23 of the U.S. highways code, it appears that tolls are not allowed on federally funded infrastructure projects. But like with so many laws, exemptions have been created over time.
Vancouver’s Melecio Herrera-Viveros was identified Thursday as the man killed in an explosion last week while installing vinyl flooring at a commercial building in north Clark County.
The Clark County Medical Examiner said the 53-year-old man died from “thermal injury and inhalation of products of combustion.” His death was ruled an accident.
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in solving a cold case disappearance from the 1970s.
Investigators hope to hear from friends, neighbors and classmates who knew Sandra Renee Morden and her father, Andrew “Andy” Morden, while they lived in Vancouver and the Hazel Dell area in the 1970s.
