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Riah Tua leads the Skyview football team in a post-game prayer after the Storm beat Richland 21-14 in a non-league football game at Kiggins Bowl on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024.

Playing game helps ease pain of Skyview football players after death of teammate William Sloan

October 12, 2024, 10:26pm Editor's Choice

Junior lineman died suddenly in his sleep three nights before Storm's game against Richland Read story

U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, left, faces off with congressional opponent Joe Kent during a candidate forum hosted by the Skamania County Chamber of Commerce in Stevenson on Oct. 1. The event was one of multiple meetings between the two candidates before the election, who also ran against each other for the seat in 2022. The race has garnered national attention because the seat could decide control of the U.S. House next year where Republicans hold a slight majority.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Joe Kent slug it out in rematch for 3rd District seat

October 12, 2024, 6:14am Clark County News

Tension crackled between Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican challenger Joe Kent during an Oct. 2 debate at Lower Columbia College in Longview. Kent, wearing a crisp, tan suit, scowled. Perez, in red cowboy boots, a green dress and tweed blazer, repeatedly ran her hands through her tousled bangs. Read story

Volunteer Madison Glenn lends a hand in the kitchen at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

Cooking it old school: Fort Vancouver kitchen gives a lesson in 1840s kitchens

October 12, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

I could smell woodsmoke from Fort Vancouver’s kitchen as soon as I got out of my car in the Fifth Street visitor lot. The aroma led me to the weathered wood building behind the reconstructed Chief Factor’s House, where John McLoughlin and his family would have lived in the fort’s… Read story

Courtesy of Don Newell
Don Newell, left, and Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, in Vietnam in 1969.

From the Newsroom: We lost a faithful reader

October 12, 2024, 6:13am Clark County News

The Columbian lost a faithful subscriber last week. And I lost a good friend. Read story

Outside investment in Clark County is making its housing market even more competitive, experts say.

Clark County’s growth, economy and housing market attract outside investors — and new residents

October 12, 2024, 6:10am Business

Clark County is no longer Portland’s quiet, orchard-filled neighbor, and people from other states — and even countries — are catching on, U.S. Census Bureau data shows. Read story

Check It Out: Possums, beavers and owls, oh my!

Dorothy Gale, of “Wizard of Oz” fame, was obviously not from the Pacific Northwest. If she was, she’d have known that lions and tigers don’t live in forests. She’d also have known that you are far more likely to see smaller creatures in the forest than larger ones — like,… Read story

Clark County history: Vancouver and the Chinese riots

U.S. troops, possibly part of the 14th Infantry from Vancouver Barracks under command of Brig. Gen. John Gibbon, lined up in front of a downtown Seattle hotel during the anti-Chinese mob violence in February 1886.

Local rowdies beat Moy Ling after he left a Methodist church, reported the Clark County Register in January 1881. This single local incident demonstrates the anti-Chinese feelings festering within the Washington Territory. Read story

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