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Fire escapes from a vent hole cut in the roof of an office at 3509 N.E. Stapleton Road. The 2:30 p.m.

Fire damages Head Start office

Fire escapes from a vent hole cut in the roof of an office at 3509 N.E. Stapleton Road. The 2:30 p.m.

February 12, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

Vancouver firefighters pressed their two newest fire engines into service Sunday afternoon, fighting a fire that heavily damaged an old home converted to office use. Read story

Park ranger Aaron Ochoa, as Civil War Gen. Ulysses S.

Reading fresh messages in old letters at fort

Park ranger Aaron Ochoa, as Civil War Gen. Ulysses S.

February 12, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

Connor Wier clutched a quill pen in his left hand as he carefully inked characters onto a tiny postcard. Returning the pen to a glass inkwell, he dipped and wrote, dipped and wrote, finally blotting his work with a tiny bit of sand. Read story

After more than a decade on the City Council, Lisa Walters recently became Battle Ground's first female mayor.

B.G.’s first female mayor hopes to inspire others

After more than a decade on the City Council, Lisa Walters recently became Battle Ground's first female mayor.

February 12, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

BATTLE GROUND -- At a recent gathering of Clark County mayors, one of Battle Ground Mayor Lisa Walters' peers pulled out her chair from the table so she could sit. Read story

The Washington state Capitol is lit against a late-evening sky in Olympia.

Local lawmakers’ bills are halfway home

The Washington state Capitol is lit against a late-evening sky in Olympia.

February 12, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

Proposals by Southwest Washington lawmakers started to clear the halfway mark last week for passing out of the state Legislature. Read story

Port of Ridgefield director Brent Grening, left, walks the former Pacific Wood Treating site with project manager Karl Jolin last week.

Colossal cleanup winds down in Ridgefield

Port of Ridgefield director Brent Grening, left, walks the former Pacific Wood Treating site with project manager Karl Jolin last week.

February 12, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

RIDGEFIELD -- The expansive steam-injection system at the former Pacific Wood Treating site isn't removing toxic chemicals and sludge from the ground anymore. That process wrapped up last year. Read story

USS Vancouver

Off Beat: Namesake city has no place for USS Vancouver

USS Vancouver

February 11, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

It's a notion that gets floated from time to time, and now it has resurfaced. Read story

Migrant workers prepare to do cleanup work on a boysenberry field at Bi-Zi Farms.

Clark County employers weigh pros, cons of E-Verify

Migrant workers prepare to do cleanup work on a boysenberry field at Bi-Zi Farms.

February 11, 2012, 4:00pm Business

After a day picking cherries on his 180-acre Vancouver farm, Bill Zimmerman's 20 or so workers leave with dirt-coated fingernails, sweat-stained clothes and aches and pains from being on their feet all day. Read story

Cities use E-Verify while state considers banning it

February 11, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

More than two years ago, Clark County became the first in the state to mandate that its contractors use the federal E-Verify program, in an attempt to ensure taxpayer dollars employed legal workers on public works projects. Since then, three counties and 11 cities, including five in this county, have… Read story

Jayne: Unlikely evolution into boxing

February 11, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

What began as a diversion after knee injuries ended her college basketball career will come full circle this week for Tiffanie Ward. Read story

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County to trim advisory boards

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February 11, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

At the Feb. 7 Board of Clark County Commissioners meeting, giddy members of the Aging Readiness Task Force celebrated the approval of the Clark County Aging Readiness Plan and encouraged commissioners to let them form a Clark County Commission on Aging. Read story