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Columbian seeks Halloween photos

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

Spooky or scary, creative or cute? How does your Halloween look this year? Read story

Hayden Crouse, 5, shows off a paper jack-o'-lantern he crafted in Laura Tomberlin's classroom on Oct. 22 at La Center Elementary School.

La Center schools embrace Halloween as way to celebrate community spirit

Hayden Crouse, 5, shows off a paper jack-o'-lantern he crafted in Laura Tomberlin's classroom on Oct. 22 at La Center Elementary School.

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

LA CENTER -- If you want to see an explosion of excitement, just ask a group of kindergartners about their favorite candy. Read story

What’s Up With That? Flat sewer rate reflects cost of service

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Community

It has puzzled me that a household with one person pays the same amount for wastewater (just went up to $70 a month) as a family of four or more. I was told that the wastewater department doesn't have a way to monitor the amount of sewage each household generates.… Read story

North county librarian selected for leadership training

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

La Center and Woodland -- Justin Keeler, the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District community librarian for La Center and Woodland, went to Port Townsend in mid-October for a week of "cultivating leadership skills in library staff," he said, via the Pacific Northwest Library Association's Leadership Institute. Read story

Camas: DECA students at Camas High School held their Hot Dogs for MDA fundraiser on Oct. 15 and 17.

Camas students vie to be top dog for charity

Camas: DECA students at Camas High School held their Hot Dogs for MDA fundraiser on Oct. 15 and 17.

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Schools

Camas -- Camas High School students vied to be the top dog of hot dogs when the DECA club held its Hot Dogs for MDA fundraiser on Oct. 15 and 17, benefitting the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Club members in four groups ran hot dog stands with names such as "Buns… Read story

Hockinson: Author Dan Strawn was recently nominated for a 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Sellers Association award for his novel &quot;Black Wolf's Return.&quot;

Hockinson author nominated for regional book award

Hockinson: Author Dan Strawn was recently nominated for a 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Sellers Association award for his novel &quot;Black Wolf's Return.&quot;

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

Hockinson -- Hockinson author Dan Strawn was recently nominated for a 2014 Pacific Northwest Book Sellers Association award for his novel "Black Wolf's Return." The book released in July by Bluewood Publishing tells a story spanning 300 years about the "parallel fates of both wolves and the Nez Perce Indians… Read story

Washington’s first test tube baby, a Brush Prairie boy, celebrates 30th birthday

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Brush Prairie -- Did you know that Washington state's first test tube baby grew up in Brush Prairie? Chris Easter, who now lives in Portland and turned 30 this past week, has been the subject of recent media attention. Easter was born in Spokane in 1983 to Kathy and Patrick… Read story

Fruit Valley: Leah Greenwood, who led Vancouver's Affordable Community Environments to a strengthening merger with a sister agency in Portland, has been honored for her leadership by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission.

Greenwood named a Friend of Housing

Fruit Valley: Leah Greenwood, who led Vancouver's Affordable Community Environments to a strengthening merger with a sister agency in Portland, has been honored for her leadership by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission.

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Fruit Valley -- The woman who steered teetering nonprofit housing agency Affordable Community Environments back from the brink, and led the way to a merger with Portland housing agency REACH, has been honored as a Friend of Housing by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. Leah Greenwood "put the housing… Read story

Scholarships honor dedicated soccer lover

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Esther Short -- The late Darin Thorp's greatest love, aside from his children, was soccer. Read story

Hudson's Bay: Greg Shine, chief ranger and historian at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, was recently named the National Park Service's Pacific Northwest 2013 Freeman Tilden Award winner.

Shine shines with book about Vancouver Barracks

Hudson's Bay: Greg Shine, chief ranger and historian at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, was recently named the National Park Service's Pacific Northwest 2013 Freeman Tilden Award winner.

October 29, 2013, 5:00pm Truckies

Hudson's Bay -- Greg Shine, the chief ranger and historian at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, has been honored as the National Park Service's Pacific Northwest 2013 Freeman Tilden Award winner. Read story