Vancouver’s love of baseball wasn’t debated this morning as the board of Clark County commissioners agreed to sign a non-binding letter of intent with Short Season LLC which hopes to relocate the Yakima Bears minor league team to Vancouver. But commissioners and the public in attendance did debate the proposed finance ...
Vancouver’s City Council stepped into the batter’s box last night to hear its first formal presentation by Short Season LLC, a California company which hopes to move forward with plans to relocate the Yakima Bears minor league baseball team to Vancouver. The presentation was an overview of a proposal to ...
In a Feb. 18 interview with Lars Larson, Oregon state Rep. Tina Kotek said that North Portland has to make sure it has “better transit connections” into Clark County. In June, transportation analyst John Charles told the Bridging the Gaps audience that Tri-Met, the entity that operates Portland’s light rail, is ...
It all started with garlic at NW Organic Farm in Ridgefield. “But we soon learned you can’t live on garlic,” co-owner Joyce Haines says. The farm that she and her husband operate now produces everything from garlic and lettuce to snap peas and more than 3,000 tomato plants. Haines says the farm ...
The Vancouver City Council voted to adopt the resolution amending its code of ethics during its July 18 meeting without adding a conduct policy. The council agreed that the revised policy is an improvement over the former document, but Councilwoman Jeanne Stewart cautioned that a conduct provision should be added to ...
Earlier this year, one-time 3rd Congressional District candidate David Hedrick appeared on Clark County Today where he shared his story of alleged domestic violence that resulted in his arrest last October, followed by a trial and acquittal in February of this year. Since that interview Hedrick has brought a tort claim against the Clark County Sheriff’s Office for alleged violation of
It has taken two years of construction, more than 160,000 man hours and 3.8 miles of shelf space, but the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District is ready for its next chapter as it debuts Vancouver’s newest library July 17. The new facility replaces the old main community library that has stood at the corner of Mill Plain and Fort Vancouver Way for nearly fifty years.
The executive director of C-Tran did not ask the transit agency’s board of directors to review additional Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project* documents as was scheduled to continue during Tuesday evening’s board meeting. The board reviewed the CRC draft environmental impact statement during its June meeting and was scheduled ...
The Bonneville Power Administration is in the planning process for the potential construction of a new electrical transmission line in Southwest Washington. As part of that planning process, the BPA expects to release a draft environmental impact statement later this year, so Doug Johnson and Mark Korsness from BPA stopped by couv.com to talk about the planning process in the latest episode of Cla
A Washington voter initiative to ban rush-hour toll increases appears headed for the November ballot, after organizers collected more than 327,000 signatures. The proposal, Initiative 1125, would, among other things, require that toll rates be set by the Washington Legislature, and that the rates would be steady throughout the ...
The Vancouver City Council continued a review of its Ethics and Conduct Policy Monday night, with City Attorney Ted Gathe and Policy Development Manager Jan Bader leading the council through proposed changes that picked up where a prior discussion in June left off – that council members charging another council member ...
1999 Dec. 20, 1999: City Council passes an ethics policy. Code of Ethics, City of Vancouver. PDF File, 258 MB 2010 Sept. 14, 2010: Jeanne Harris has an outburst during City Council meeting and demands mayor “gavel down” a citizen addressing the council. After the meeting ended she tells fellow ...
“I don’t remember my life very much,” said Tyler Presnell as he sat down to share his story with COUV.COM. From a black shoulder bag he pulled four pictures: One of his practically unblemished face while he slept in a coma, one of of his bare chest revealing a 12-inch ...
Architect Kevin Peterson stopped by COUV.COM to share his transit and transportation planning knowledge in the latest episode of Clark County Today. Peterson has more than 30 years of experience that includes work on transportation projects the world over, including design and consultation on at least a half-dozen bridge projects and ...
The impact of the Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project* on neighborhoods will be significant, according to CRC Environmental Manager Heather Gunderson in a presentation to the Vancouver City Council during a workshop session on June 27. Vancouver Transportation Policy Director Thayer Rorabaugh and CRC Director Nancy Boyd joined Gunderson ...
Pat Johnson helps people to create and grow nonprofit organizations as the founder and executive director of Ministry 911, and her journey to this point has been anything but ordinary. As a child her home was plagued with dysfunction and alcohol. It was such a stressful environment that by age ...
Matt and Jen Schwab of Ridgefield’s Inspiration Plantation explain why they operate their diversified farm with natural practices and how people in the community can become consumers of local food. To see COUV.COM’s previous coverage of Inspiration Plantation and to experience a day-in-the-life on the farm, see ‘Life at Inspiration ...
Listen to an audio podcast of this interview here: There are 100 missing children in Clark County and there’s a good chance many of those kids been taken for the purpose of sex trafficking, says Cyndi Romine. Romine, of ‘Called to Rescue’ says this community’s position along the I-5 corridor makes it ...
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