February 29, 2012, 12:00am Community
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February 29, 2012, 12:00am Community
Are there any plans to make improvements on First Street between 164th and 192nd Avenues? The pavement is a mess, the paint is faded, and there is no lighting or sidewalk along most of this stretch!Keli, your question sent Vancouver's public works spokeswoman, Loretta Callahan, scurrying to a bevy of… Read story
February 29, 2012, 12:00am Community
Pleasant Highlands -- A long-standing nuisance property near the Washington State University Vancouver campus has seen some changes this year. Read story
February 29, 2012, 12:00am Community
Burton-Evergreen Three generations gathered recently to celebrate reaching the three-quarter century, half-century and quarter-century marks. Carolyn Timmermann, 75, her daughter, Cindy Wilhelm, 50, and her granddaughter, Stacie Ehrig, 25, marked the milestone years. Read story
February 29, 2012, 12:00am Community
These pets are among those available for adoption from noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Humane Society for Southwest Washington, 1100 N.E. 192nd Ave., Vancouver. Fees -- which can include registered microchip, health exam, a spay or neuter certificate… Read story
February 29, 2012, 12:00am Community
Three years ago, I was invited to go with a group that was visiting the Barrow Whaling Festival. With great anticipation, we began our journey to Barrow, a city on the Bering Sea and the most northern city in Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle. We left Anchorage airport at… Read story
February 23, 2012, 4:00pm Community
The Columbian held a live Web chat at noon today, Friday, Feb. 24, to discuss heart health and the issue of screening teen athletes for heart conditions. We will be joined by Matt Nipper, an exercise physiologist at PeaceHealth Heart & Vascular Center. Read story
February 21, 2012, 4:00pm Community
The small Venersborg Cemetery isn't full, but the plots have long been sold and the idea of expanding the cemetery has been around for years. Read story
February 21, 2012, 4:00pm Community
My mother, Jean, completed a degree in retailing at New York University, and by the late 1930s was employed as a buyer for Macy's on 5th Avenue. Tom, whom she'd known in high school in Albany, Ore., where their families still lived, was now writing for the Seattle Times. They… Read story
February 21, 2012, 4:00pm Community
Back in the late 40s and early '50s, when the Interstate Highway System was being developed, I vaguely remember being told that it would be a non-toll road system and that construction, improvements and maintenance would be a federal obligation paid for through taxes. Am I mistaken? Has there been… Read story
