December 17, 2020, 6:00am Clark County Life
Precious few nuts are cracking in Clark County this holiday season. Some dance companies were getting ready to record and stream video versions of “The Nutcracker,” the classic Christmas ballet, when the coronavirus pandemic started spiking again in Washington and all across the nation. Tighter restrictions on fitness and training… Read story
December 16, 2020, 12:39pm 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 16, 2020, 6:02am Clark County Life
While canned vegetables are no one’s culinary darlings, they are perhaps undeserving of their unglamorous reputation. Many people would just as soon leave them on the grocery store shelves or shove them to the back of the pantry, reserved for a nuclear apocalypse, after all the fresh vegetables have been… Read story
December 15, 2020, 6:00am Clark County Life
When gigantic Jupiter overtakes gorgeous Saturn in the night sky, astronomers call it a Great Conjunction. In the coming days, starting at about 45 minutes after sunset, you should be able to catch the action in the southwestern sky as the two largest planets come within kissing distance. Read story
December 13, 2020, 6:05am Clark County Life
Bricks, the oldest of handmade building materials, date back 9,000 years. But in Clark County, only to about 1846, when the Hudson Bay Company fabricated the area’s first bricks near today’s Amtrak station. The shallow clay was easy to dig, and laborers dried the bricks close by. Read story
December 13, 2020, 6:03am Clark County Life
The average lifespan of a grizzly bear is just under 25 years. About two grizzly lifetimes ago, I shepherded my Literature of the Wilderness class of about a dozen college students on a camping trip into Yellowstone Park. Read story
December 13, 2020, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
If there’s one thing we can count on, even in 2020, it’s the joy created by a festive light display. Clark County residents, sensing the need for extra cheer, have pulled out all the stops on their holiday houses. The lights are on. The plastic reindeer are hitched to Santa’s… Read story
December 13, 2020, 6:00am Clark County Life
Today is National Cocoa Day — sweet! Chocolate really does make everything better, so I’m tickled that even in 2020, the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, I can celebrate something good and delicious. Read story
December 12, 2020, 6:05am Clark County Life
I asked two of my gardening friends for help with my house plants. One said I am watering too much and the other one said I am not watering enough. I water all my house plants once a week. Do think that is too much or too little? Read story
December 12, 2020, 6:04am Clark County Life
This time of year, storm-related power outages are more common than usual, and that drives some Clark County residents to invest in portable generators. Read story
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