Clark County Life

Ridgefield resident James Tobin, 8, tries to decide which doughnut to get while looking over the selection at the new Voodoo Doughnut at Vancouver Mall on Tuesday morning, Jan.11, 2022.

Voodoo Doughnut opens its newest shop in Vancouver

January 11, 2022, 11:26am Business

Make it a dozen. Voodoo Doughnut opened its doors in Vancouver on Tuesday, celebrating its 12th location just across the river from where the iconic pop-culture-loving doughnut shop got its start. Read story

NatureScape's demonstration Wildlife Botanical Garden in Brush Prairie showcases a lush meadowscape.

Wilder style of beauty: Meadowscaping allows Mother Nature to breathe life into landscape

January 11, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

I once took this naive notion to stop mowing a portion of my backyard and let it become a “natural” meadow. Just a small, experimental 5-by-10-foot sliver. Let nature take its course and surely, I thought, my little patch of grass would grow tall and flowery, a healthy new home… Read story

Everybody Has a Story: Bringing home living souvenir

January 9, 2022, 6:05am Clark County Life

My husband and I like to travel to natural places and my favorite kind of souvenir is also natural: I like to find rocks on mountain tops or shark teeth on beaches to bring back home. Read story

Check It Out: Warm up winter with picture books

January 9, 2022, 6:05am Clark County Life

Another year, another January and I am ready to snuggle up with some delightful picture books. Now that school is back in session, perhaps you and your little ones would appreciate a bit of quiet reading time just for fun. When everything around me feels too much (come on, 2022… Read story

An axolotl swims in a tank at Alley Cat Pet Center. Axolotls are neotenic, meaning they retain their adolescent form into adulthood, including the feathery gills that fan out around their necks.

Amazing Axolotls: Smiley salamander makes a splash in Clark County

January 9, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life

What’s native only to Mexico’s Lake Xochimilco, comes in rainbow colors and has a permanently thrilled expression? An axolotl, of course! It’s a species of salamander with distinctive exterior gills that form a ruffled fan around its neck. The axolotl (pronounced “AX-uh-lot-ull”) is named after Xolotl, the Aztec god of… Read story

Clark County History: Charles Brown

A former mayor active in Vancouver's political circles, Charles Brown died by suicide in 1901 when a state bank examiner discovered the First National Bank ledger disguised inadequate assets to cover outstanding loans. As bank president, he and his clerk conspired for 10 years to hide the problem. His father, S.W. Brown, had political connections to the Republican Party and President Abraham Lincoln dating back to the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates in Galesburg, Ill. The Vancouver Office of Stahancyk, Kent & Hook occupy the house today.

It was the strangest house for a frontier town. Built about 1866, the Second French Empire-style structure at 400 W. 11th St. in Vancouver still stands out today for its flat roof and a door oddly facing outside from its second-floor sans balcony. Read story

Clark County Historical Museum back to regular hours

The Clark County Historical Museum returns to its regular hours beginning today. It will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for kids age 5 to 18, $4 for seniors and students and free for children ages 4 and under.… Read story