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Medical examiner needs help to ID man found dead in Orchards

January 30, 2020, 4:27pm Clark County News Free

The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office needs help identifying a man found dead Tuesday morning in Orchards. Read story

The Clark County Sheriff's Office is looking for a suspect in connection with a robbery at Alaska USA Federal Credit Union Branch located within the Salmon Creek Albertsons.

Clark County deputies searching for suspected bank robber

January 30, 2020, 2:21pm Clark County News

Clark County sheriff’s deputies are searching for a man suspected of robbing a bank inside a Salmon Creek grocery store on Wednesday. Read story

People come and go from the Vancouver Navigation Center in Vancouver.

Vancouver Navigation Center operator search still on

January 30, 2020, 6:15am Clark County News

The city of Vancouver has extended the deadline for proposals from organizations looking to run the Navigation Center, the city’s day shelter that provides basic services to people without homes. Read story

Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson, center, leads a protest in Portland in December 2017, a week after an undocumented Mexican resident of San Francisco was acquitted of the murder of Kate Seinle. It drew activists from both political extremes, including Kerry Hudson, left, who can be found at many Patriot Prayer rallies and Luis Enrique Marquez, right, a prominent anti-fascist protester.

Patriot Prayer – the new face of ‘nativist bigotry’

January 30, 2020, 6:05am Clark County News Free

Steven Stroud is sitting across from me, opening a bag of Reese’s Pieces, in the visiting room of a prison in Oregon that has been his home for the past 12 years. He’s agreed to an interview but asks that the institution not be named. Read story

Sgt. Fred Neiman of the Clark County Sheriff's Office, photographed outside the department's West Precinct off Northwest 179th Street, is retiring today after a 40-year career.

After 40 years, last day on ‘The Job’ for Sgt. Fred Neiman

January 30, 2020, 6:05am Clark County News

Clark County sheriff’s Sgt. Fred Neiman learned about customer service as a 17-year-old working at a Kalama Chevron station. Read story

Weather Eye: January records heaviest month of rainfall

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

In Tuesday's column, I mentioned that we should easily pass November 2017 rainfall of 6.50 inches and needless to say, we easily did that the other day. The rain kept falling and we passed the next heaviest month of rainfall which was March 2017 with 7.05 inches. As of 4… Read story

Lewis River RV Park tenants, owner meet in effort to address problems, confusion

The Lewis River RV Park sits on the north bank of the Lewis River east of Woodland. The park's total number of residents often fluctuates, but it is generally estimated to be about 60 families.

An ongoing ownership dispute at the Lewis River RV Park appeared no closer to a resolution on Wednesday, and a group of park residents have begun laying the groundwork to take legal action to try to resolve a situation that has left them in the dark — figuratively and potentially… Read story