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Pair of grants helps Evergreen schools with video equipment

February 9, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

Evergreen Public Schools -- Evergreen Public Schools recently received two grants, worth a total of $136,913, to improve some of its video production equipment to high-definition quality. The PEG grants from Comcast Cable, which airs school content on channels 27, 28 and 29, will let the district's Video Services Department… Read story

Salmon Creek: Fly fishers Bob Faust (left) Gene Caler, Ben Dennis and John Shaffer show off their big Northeast Highway 99 catch.

Fly Fishers reel in trash from Highway 99

Salmon Creek: Fly fishers Bob Faust (left) Gene Caler, Ben Dennis and John Shaffer show off their big Northeast Highway 99 catch.

February 9, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

Salmon Creek -- As part of Clark County Public Works' voluntary Adopt-a-Road program, six members of the Salmon Creek Fly Fishers hooked something other than fish on Feb. 1. They went out and cleaned up a portion of "old" Northeast Highway 99, removing more than 210 pounds of roadside trash.… Read story

Ridgefield: Ridgefield High School senior Kailie French recites her award-winning Poetry Out Loud reading of &quot;The Coming of the Plague,&quot; written by Weldon Kees.

All Ridgefield High language arts students recite Poetry Out Loud

Ridgefield: Ridgefield High School senior Kailie French recites her award-winning Poetry Out Loud reading of &quot;The Coming of the Plague,&quot; written by Weldon Kees.

February 9, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

Ridgefield -- All Ridgefield High School language arts students took part earlier this school year in Poetry Out Loud, a national memorization-and-recitation contest. It was previously optional and led up to an event at the Old Liberty Theater; this year it was mandatory. Each student recited a poem for classmates.… Read story

Battle Ground: Students and dads play dodgeball on the opening night of Watch DOGS at Captain Strong Primary School.

Dads welcomed to Captain Strong Primary School

Battle Ground: Students and dads play dodgeball on the opening night of Watch DOGS at Captain Strong Primary School.

February 9, 2014, 4:00pm Truckies

Battle Ground -- More than 120 Dads of Good Students, or DOGS, swarmed Captain Strong Primary School on Jan. 22 -- along with 200 kids. They were there to launch and celebrate Watch DOGS, a program that aims to get each dad (or father figure) to attend school with his… Read story

Florida-based Communities for Veterans is proposing to build this 69-unit apartment complex on the Veterans Affairs campus.

Vets’ housing proposed at VA

Florida-based Communities for Veterans is proposing to build this 69-unit apartment complex on the Veterans Affairs campus.

February 7, 2014, 4:00pm Business

A Florida-based developer has requested city review for an apartment complex at the Veterans Affairs campus in Vancouver. Read story

Neighbors Calendar

February 4, 2014, 4:00pm Community

A weekly list of association meetings in Clark County. Read story

You can help

February 4, 2014, 4:00pm Community

A weekly list of volunteer opportunities in Clark County. Read story

Maude Ryan

Ryan set to celebrate a century

Maude Ryan

February 4, 2014, 4:00pm Community

Brush Prairie -- Maude Ryan was born on the border between Arkansas and Louisiana on Feb. 8, 1914. She was the oldest of five children and is the only one still living. Read story

Everybody Has a Story: A tale of Laura Lee’s ‘tocaya’

February 4, 2014, 4:00pm Community

Once upon a time, many years ago, my mother went into the hospital to have me. She hired a baby sitter to watch after my four older brothers. Read story

Maggie Ferdig walks her dogs Stewie, left, and Z.J. at LeRoy Haagen Park.

Neighbors search for ways to deal with dog waste at parks

Maggie Ferdig walks her dogs Stewie, left, and Z.J. at LeRoy Haagen Park.

February 4, 2014, 4:00pm Clark County News

LeRoy Haagen Park in Vancouver's Fircrest neighborhood may occasionally act as a doggie commode. But at least it's a tidy one, with people tying up their pooches' poos in bags and throwing them away into waste bins. Read story