October 19, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
If you like to make informed purchases when shopping for home appliances -- and who doesn't? -- information available online may be of help. The trick is to sort reliable websites with unbiased information from those promoting brand-name products that may be misleading. New energy-efficient appliances, from dishwashers to refrigerators,… Read story
October 19, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
Send information to homeandgarden@columbian.com. Read story
October 19, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
Although our weather has been particularly unpredictable, the season between summer and winter is typically one of the most stable and beautiful weather periods of the year. The way my friends have been talking about the weather, you would think we were closer to winter than summer. I, for one,… Read story
October 19, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
Is Cornus kousa a tree or a shrub? Cornus kousa, the Chinese dogwood, can be trained either as a single trunk tree or multi-trunk shrub. These are the preferred dogwood by many gardeners since they largely escape the dreaded disease anthracnose that plagues the native dogwood. Read story
October 19, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
Beginning about 9:54 p.m. Wednesday, 911 dispatchers received several calls of a disturbance with a weapon and shots fired in the 3200 or 3300 block of East 18th Street. Dispatchers were told that a caller said something to the effect that "someone is going to die." Read story
October 19, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
BATTLE GROUND -- Colby Gilbert said he was leaning so much that he almost fell down a couple of times Wednesday afternoon at Lewisville Park. He was just trying to get that extra burst of speed, taking advantage of the downhills on the 3.1-mile cross country course. Read story
October 19, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
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October 19, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
'Oh look! Here's a skull!" exclaimed Carrie Kraten of Oregon City, Ore. She and her 5-year-old grandson, Cole Riehl, were intently dissecting an owl pellet, a golf ball-sized chunk of fur and bits of bone. Read story
October 19, 2011, 5:00pm Clark County News
RANDLE -- On a brilliant fall day, with the maples and cottonwoods beginning to turn, a deep quiet settled over a remote section of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest on the northwest edge of the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. South of this depressed timber town, in the Green… Read story
October 19, 2011, 5:00pm Business
Sharp Solar this week announced two new products at the Solar Power International show in Dallas as the company adds new jobs in Clark County. The business recently relocated to Camas from Southern California. Eric Hafter, a Sharp senior vice president who heads the company's Solar Energy Solutions Group, said… Read story
