September 30, 2023, 6:10am Clark County Life
It was the Saturday morning after my first week of third grade in Des Plaines, Ill., about 20 miles west of Chicago, when I woke up to the sound of the vacuum cleaner. Mom was busy vacuuming, dusting and arranging extra chairs around the dining room table. I got up… Read story
September 30, 2023, 6:10am Clark County Life
How many trees call the city of Vancouver home? And what kinds of trees are they? Not even Charles Ray, Vancouver’s urban forester, knows all the answers. Read story
September 30, 2023, 6:04am Clark County Life
I have some shrubs that have grown too large for the area where they are planted. Is this a good time to prune them? How about trees? Read story
September 30, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Near where the Washington School for the Deaf stands today, George Simpson, governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, and John McLoughlin, chief factor of the company’s Columbia District, picked the original site for Fort Vancouver in 1824. Simpson’s territory covered all lands west of the Rockies to Hawaii, north to… Read story
September 30, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life
Sunday marks the beginning of an important week for all of the employees at Clark Public Utilities and all other community-owned, nonprofit utilities in America. Read story
September 29, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life
Sushi stands have become as ubiquitous as fried chicken and pizza at grocery stores throughout the country. Americans purchased 43.7 million servings of sushi at grocery stores over the past year, according to the consumer research firm Circana. Read story
September 29, 2023, 5:15am Clark County Life
A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum. Read story
September 29, 2023, 5:12am 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 448. An establishment with 100 or more points will be closed. Read story
September 28, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Mike Myers last raced his drag car on Jan. 1, 1978. He sold it soon afterward. Read story
September 28, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
Five things to do this week Read story
