December 23, 2022, 6:05am Clark County Life
The cold snap that started Wednesday night and scrambled so many people’s Christmas travel plans also messed up the bar-crawl progress of local hummingbirds. They normally spend the day flitting from feeder to feeder (and, when they’re blooming, flower to flower). Read story
December 23, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
Ready to make up for the New Year’s Eve fun you lost to the pandemic? These Vancouver-area establishments are featuring special food, drinks and entertainment to ring in 2023, whether you’re looking for a glamorous party or something more laid back. Many places require reservations, so it’s wise to book… Read story
December 23, 2022, 5:40am Clark County Life
For more information, call Clark County Public Health at 564-397-8428 or visit www.clark.wa.gov/public-health/restaurant-inspection. In the health department’s scoring system, the fewer the points, the better. A perfect score is 0. The worst possible score is 418. An establishment with 100 or more points will be closed. Read story
December 22, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life
Gifts and wrapping paper, lights and decorations, yummy things to nibble and nosh. Sounds delightful, but there’s a downside to all that seasonal celebration: vast amounts of extra trash. Read story
December 22, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
Five things to do this week Read story
December 21, 2022, 6:03am Clark County Life
Just in time to be adopted for the holidays, 18 dogs, including one expecting puppies, were successfully rescued by the Humane Society for Southwest Washington. Read story
December 21, 2022, 6:01am Business Subscriber Exclusive
We’re all painfully familiar with the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song. The gift-giver who proposed that parade of presents would end up paying $45,523.27 for them now, according to the latest Christmas Price Index from PNC. But we must ask ourselves — how useful is a partridge in a pear… Read story
December 21, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
I don’t always love Christmas. There, I’ve said it. I might as well add that I don’t like Disneyland and I don’t instantly love every dog I meet. I think that’s the Grinchy Trifecta, right there, although even Grinch has his dog, Max. So I’m officially Grinchier than the Grinch. Read story
December 18, 2022, 6:36am Clark County Life
Listening to the meteorologist forecast heavy snow in Hood River recently reminded me of childhood winters in the Columbia River Gorge. Flakes will be falling on the little house I grew up in 50 years ago. If I could go back … Read story
December 18, 2022, 6:08am Clark County Life
It’s that time of year when lots of wrapping up happens. There is the literal wrapping up of toys, clothes, singing fish, decades-old fruit cakes passed back and forth between families and, of course, books. And then there is the traditional wrapping up of the year which results in the… Read story
