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Clark County News

Battle Ground’s Main Street to close for Harvest Days

July 17, 2014, 12:00am Clark County News

Parts of Main Street and some of the surrounding roads in Battle Ground will shut down this weekend for the city's annual Harvest Days celebration. Read story

Heat wave triggers blood shortage

July 17, 2014, 12:00am Clark County News

The Oregon and Southwest Washington Blood Program issued an appeal for donors this week after collections began to drop as a result of the ongoing heat wave. Read story

Clark College expands efforts in Gorge

July 17, 2014, 12:00am Clark County News

Less than a year after opening the Wind River Education Center in the Columbia River Gorge, Clark College is expanding its academic and technical offerings and moving into a new, larger facility 18 miles east on Highway 14. Read story

Tesoro Corp.

Tesoro gives to local GOP members

Tesoro Corp.

July 17, 2014, 12:00am Business

A handful of local lawmakers recently received a deposit in their campaign bank account from Tesoro Corp., the company that would like to build the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail terminal in Vancouver. Read story

Small nonprofits focus of July 26 workshop

July 17, 2014, 12:00am Clark County News

Stepping up your fundraising, revitalizing your board of directors, strategic planning, grant writing and more topics vital to the smallest nonprofit agencies will be presented during "Grassroots Saturday," a daylong series of skill-building workshops. Read story

Flame flares from the  barrels of volunteers John Miller, left, and Emily Wattez as they fire their muskets during Fort Vancouveru2019s annual black-powder training.

Volunteers prep for black powder shooting demonstrations at fort

Flame flares from the  barrels of volunteers John Miller, left, and Emily Wattez as they fire their muskets during Fort Vancouveru2019s annual black-powder training.

July 17, 2014, 12:00am Clark County News

Ramming and priming, sure. But biting and spitting? They're all part of loading a Civil War-era musket. Several volunteers recently went through the drill — literally — to prepare for the historic weapons program at Fort Vancouver. Re-enactors honed their skills for the summer schedule of black powder shooting demonstrations… Read story

Candidates for Clark County sheriff, from left, Chuck Atkins, Shane Gardner, Ed Owens and John Graser

Four candidates bring experience, varied proposals to sheriff’s race

Candidates for Clark County sheriff, from left, Chuck Atkins, Shane Gardner, Ed Owens and John Graser

July 17, 2014, 12:00am Clark County News

Like catching a glimpse of Halley's Comet, the opportunity to pick a new Clark County sheriff has only come around once in the last generation. Read story

Deckhand Donald Pitts nets a salmon for a charter angler off the Washington in 2014.

Catching salmon the easy way

Deckhand Donald Pitts nets a salmon for a charter angler off the Washington in 2014.

July 17, 2014, 12:00am Clark County News

Charter boats off Columbia River mouth having a good season as coho are plentiful this summer Read story

Fishing report 7/17

July 17, 2014, 12:00am Clark County News

Summer steelhead fishing improving in lower Columbia, but only 43 percent of catch last week was fin-clipped Read story

Air Force Capt.

Air Force cites bird strikes in crash that killed Capt. Stover

Air Force Capt.

July 17, 2014, 12:00am Clark County News

Several waterfowl that smashed through a helicopter windscreen caused the crash that killed Capt. Christopher Stover of Vancouver and three other Air Force personnel on Jan. 7. Read story