Clark County Life

Gardening with Allen: Combat weeds in small doses

June 19, 2021, 6:00am Clark County Life

I just finished my spring planting and everything looked nice and now weeds are coming up everywhere. How do you keep the weeds under control? Read story

Energy Adviser: Delivering energy a wandering journey

June 19, 2021, 6:00am Clark County Life

The reliability of Clark County’s electrical system makes it easy to forget about the massive grid and round-the-clock human efforts that keeps a steady, stable flow of power moving into our community. Read story

Eileen Baye, 2, left, of Vancouver and her brother, Dylan, 9, look over the selection at the Donut Nook.

Magazine: Vancouver’s Donut Nook has best doughnuts in the state

June 18, 2021, 6:02am Business

Seattle may have the Seahawks, Amazon and grunge music, but it doesn’t have the best doughnut shop in Washington — at least according to Food & Wine Magazine. Read story

A full moon glows overhead July 27 as families pack Columbia Tech Center Park to watch the movie “Wonder Woman” underneath the stars. The film, which was free, was part of the Movies in the Park series hosted by the city of Vancouver.

Movies return to Clark County parks this summer

June 18, 2021, 6:00am Clark County Life

Vancouver parks will welcome back neighbors for summer entertainment in early July. Read story

Taylor Loewen, Southwest Washington manager for Ridwell, sits on a bale of clamshells collected for recycling by Green Impact Plastics. Ridwell, which collects hard-to-recycle items, is launching service in Vancouver, Hazel Dell and Salmon Creek.

Ridwell launches collection of hard-to-recycle items in Vancouver

June 17, 2021, 12:04pm Clark County Life

If you are piling up plastic grocery bags, ratty clothes and burnt-out lightbulbs that you can’t bring yourself to throw into the garbage bin because you’re just sure there must be a better way to dispose of them, well, you’re right. Read story

Secrets of Camas safecracker revealed in new book

Dave McOmie, professional safecracker and your Camas neighbor, doing his thing on a typical workday.

June 17, 2021, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

Before he started drilling through the 3-ton door of the super-secure music vault at Paisley Park, the estate of the late rock star Prince, Dave McOmie pulled out his cellphone and played a round of Words With Friends with his wife. Read story

Super strawberry shortcake

Whether you like your strawberries and whipped cream on warm shortbread or a buttery biscuit, either way, it's a scrumptious mouthful of summer.

You may think that this article is about strawberry shortcake, and it is, but it’s also about the way time seems to speed up as you get older. Case in point: My daughter graduated from high school Saturday. She had the sheer, unmitigated gall to have been a baby only… Read story