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Meadow Homes: The first housing project to be completed with city of Vancouver Affordable Housing Fund money opened on Aug 22. Meriwether Place is a three-story, 30-unit development providing permanent supportive housing to low-income and formerly homeless individuals.

First project using city affordable housing funds opens in Vancouver

September 19, 2018, 5:23am Community

Meriwether Place, the first housing project to be completed using city of Vancouver Affordable Housing Fund money, opened Aug 22. Read story

West Vancouver: The Hough Shazamroxx won the championship game of the fifth annual summer neighborhood coed kickball league.

Hough neighbors wins fifth annual summer kickball league

September 15, 2018, 5:25am Community

The Northwest Fireballs finished atop the standings in the regular season of the fifth annual summer neighborhood coed kickball league, but the Hough Shazamroxx took home the league title thanks to its playoff performance. Read story

Battle Ground: Members of the Kangas family at their 70th annual family reunion, held Aug. 18 at Lewisville Park in Battle Ground. The family has held its reunion at the park every year.

Kangas family holds 70th family reunion in Battle Ground

September 12, 2018, 6:05am Community

The Kangas family held its 70th annual family reunion on Aug. 18 at Lewisville Park in Battle Ground. The family has held its reunions annually at Lewisville’s Juniper picnic area for all 70 years. More than 80 people attended the family reunion this year, coming from as far away as… Read story

The Columbian, May 1, 1957: “Gene Nordstrom, seated, a junior at Fort Vancouver High School, was city manager of Vancouver today as students from Vancouver’s two high schools and Providence Academy participated in Student Government Day at city hall. The youthful administrator receives some pointers on the duties of his office from his official counterpart, City Manager James E. Neal. Some 30 youngsters, appointed to the city’s top administrative positions, observed city government in action during the day.

Everybody Has a Story: As city manager for a day, he made a lasting contribution

September 12, 2018, 6:05am Clark County Life

When I woke up that spring morning in 1957, I found myself looking forward to a day in my life that would be like no other. At the age of 17, and a junior at Fort Vancouver High School, I was about to take charge of the city of Vancouver,… Read story

Camas High School senior Monica Chang, seen during her junior year, spent 39 days this summer in Indiana, where she was one of 36 students selected to participate in the Summer Science Program in Biochemistry.

Camas senior spends summer in exclusive science program

September 12, 2018, 6:04am Community

Camas High School senior Monica Chang was one of 36 students from around the world to participate in the Summer Science Program in Biochemistry at Purdue University in Indiana, where she and others used wet lab techniques and modeling software to study an enzyme from a fungal pathogen and to… Read story

Ridgefield welcomes new schools, hosts service project

Ridgefield: New Ridgefield High School students spent part of their first day participating in Spudder Day activities, including a service project to help build a 2,000-foot trail at the Ridgefield Outdoor Sports Complex.

September 12, 2018, 6:04am Community

Classes started Sept. 4 in Ridgefield, with the district opening its new grades 5-8 campus, home to Sunset Ridge Intermediate School and the new View Ridge Middle School. It was Assurance Day at View Ridge as staff devoted the entire first day to only incoming seventh-graders and new eighth-graders. At… Read story

Battle Ground intersection will change to all-way stop

Battle Ground: The intersection of Southeast Rasmussen Boulevard and Southeast Grace Avenue will become an all-way stop intersection in the coming weeks with the installation of a stop sign and painted stop bar on both the north and southbound lanes of Grace Avenue.

September 12, 2018, 6:03am Community

The intersection of Southeast Rasmussen Boulevard and Southeast Grace Avenue will transition from a two-way stop to an all-way stop intersection with the installation of stop signs and painted stop bars on both the north and southbound lanes of Grace Avenue. The all-way stop will facilitate east and westbound traffic… Read story

Vancouver Vineyard Church meets in park for services in August

Vancouver Vineyard Church took some time this summer to break from its normal setup to host Prayer in the Park events in August. The congregation met at Quarnberg Park behind the church for four straight Sundays. In the church’s latest newsletter, pastor Marshal Prewitt wrote that one concern church officials… Read story