The City Council meeting rolled out recognition for citizens by opening with a proclamation for AmeriCorps Week. Vancouver AmeriCorps volunteers work to improve education, public safety, health and the environment. The mayor also read a proclamation for breast reconstruction awareness or BRAVE Day. BRAVE stands for Breast Reconstruction Advocacy Victory ...
During a Smarter Bridge Committee tour to highlight bridge alternatives to the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project, COUV.COM chatted with member Ron Buel. “The local governments weren’t really involved in making the decision to choose this particular project. The lobbyist hand-picked the task force to do it,” Buel ...
Community Development Grants Manager Peggy Sheehan had both good and bad news to impart to Vancouver City Council at its Mar. 5 meeting. Working in conjunction with HOME (Home Investment Partnership Program) and CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) and Program Coordinator Martin Greenlee, she began by outlining all the terrific ...
After a week of behind the scenes compromises, the midnight deadline loomed and waned as Washington lawmakers failed to pass a state budget. That puts a special session on the horizon. According to the Olympia Report, the bone of contention was a provision added by Democrats that would have delayed ...
As part of the general effort to restructure and expand parks and recreation services that has been underway since February of 2010, city staff is considering introducing an initiative to form a Vancouver Metropolitan Park District (MPD). First enacted into Washington State law in 1907, MPD’s are governmental entities created ...
Working in conjunction with Vancouver’s Police and Fire Departments, City officials are considering modifications to local fireworks ordinances that could change the way residents celebrate Independence Day for years to come. Current policy permits the use of approved firework devices within city limits from July 1st to July 4th and ...
As advertised, the C-Tran meeting on bus rapid transit for the Fourth Plain corridor was all about what the project could look like and not much else. Sponsored by the Vancouver Planning Commission and facilitated by their Vice Chair Robert Haverkate, the meeting took place in the void left by ...
Efforts to balance industrial and residential interests in the Countryside Woods neighborhood continued during the March 5th meeting of Vancouver’s City Council. The Evergreen Pit, located on the corner of NE 18th and NE 155th, has served as a valuable local source of gravel for decades, but the details surrounding ...
The fact that Washington State would be completely responsible for toll collection and bridge maintenance has been one of the many fine-print details of the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail tolling project to go largely unreported. The information is included in a financial review of the Columbia River Crossing Light ...
Vancouver’s city attorney and City Council members are looking at a proposal that would prohibit retail stores from exposing minors to implements associated with drug use. Responding to the efforts of a local community organization, late last year the City Council began examining ways in which legal ordinances might be ...
Saturday, Mitt Romney won the GOP caucuses in Washington. The former Massachusetts governor led throughout the day giving little hope to other candidates. In a statement issued by his campaign, Romney said, “I’m heartened to have won the Washington caucuses, and I thank the voters for their support.” Romney placed ...
OAKRIDGE, Ore. — Vancouver-based forensic accountant Tiffany Couch finished some Oregon number crunching. The City of Oakridge hired the high profile fraud investigator to get to the bottom of the city’s disappearing money. In July 2011, a discrepancy in the city budget – that could not be reconciled – had ...
During the citizen comments portion of the Monday, Feb. 13 city council meeting, Vancouver resident Steve Herman came forward as a self-confessed critique of the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail Tolling project. The back and forth sparring with Mayor Tim Leavitt caught on CVTV shows Herman accusing the mayor of ...
“Daddy? It’s Corrie. Mom put me in a halfway house,” begins the trailer for the film “Dancing on the Edge.” The Highland Light Productions film, directed by Alexander Mackenzie, was shot in familiar places around Vancouver including Columbia Dance which is highlighted in the trailer along with recognizable venues near ...
COUV.COM has been named a winner in the 33rd annual Telly Awards for a documentary on Pearson Field Airport.
The Telly Awards honors the very best film and video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs.
Vancouver fitness company Nautilus Inc. reported that a New York investor and his wife purchased a 5.4 percent stake in the company for $3.5 million. Norman H. Pessin spent about $3.2 million and his wife Sandra spent about $326,000 in the deal. Both used personal funds to buy the shares, ...
Unemployment eased slightly in Washington State during 2011, moving from 9.2 percent at the year’s midpoint to 8.6 percent at the end of the year. The latest figures released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metropolitan statistical area the ratio was a little ...
The magical wardrobe-without-boundaries world of Narnia has thrilled generations of readers. Now the seminal work of C.S. Lewis has been adapted with original music and new adventures, and is being presented to Vancouver audiences by the Christian Youth Theater. Starring in the production as Lucy Pevensie is Myah Carley, an ...
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