July 15, 2022, 6:10am Clark County Life
Air conditioning has become a pretty common feature of homes in Southwest Washington. While it does quickly take the edge off a hot summer day, the power required to create that cooling comfort will raise the costs of the home energy bill. Read story
July 15, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
Jewel-toned berries ranging from plump triangular strawberries to delicate knobby raspberries, tender asparagus spears and sweet round peas have finally filled the local farmers markets. Read story
July 15, 2022, 5:09am 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
July 14, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
Five things to do this week Read story
July 13, 2022, 6:03am Clark County Life
I grew up in an era when gelatin salads were considered, nutritionally speaking, the moral equivalent of vegetable salads, served with pride in place of fresh greens — though my grandmother would often up the nutritional ante by placing a rectangle of Jell-O on a single leaf of ruffled lettuce.… Read story
July 10, 2022, 6:05am Clark County Life
It was almost dusk. Three of my four young stepchildren were all accounted for, already inside after riding their bicycles and a tricycle up and down our short, dead-end street on the warm summer’s day. Read story
July 10, 2022, 6:03am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
I was on a return trip from Seattle, flying down Interstate 5 at 70 mph as one does, when of those brown state park signs reached out and grabbed me. Read story
July 10, 2022, 6:00am Clark County Life
His childhood in Iowa and youthful artistic training in Germany were no preparation for Louis Grell to labor as a soldier in the woods. Before World War I, he’d applied his artistry to a Mormon emigration mural for the 1907 Utah State Fair, then designed stage sets in New York… Read story
July 9, 2022, 6:05am Clark County Life
We planted two maple trees near our home 15 years ago that have grown to over 50 feet tall. We are worried that they might break and damage our house in a storm. A friend with a chain saw says he can reduce their size by about a third. Is… Read story
July 9, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life
I simply can’t pass up writing a column devoted to National Kitten Day because, well, kittens! This purrfect day takes place on July 10th, and it makes me happy just thinking about it. Read story
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