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WASHOUGAL — On any given day, Exterior Wood has dozens of tractor-trailers driving in and out of its yard at the Port of Camas-Washougal Industrial Park. So when the Washington State Department of Transportation proposed building two roundabouts on state Highway 14, company leaders got a little nervous.
“I had very mixed feelings — still do,” said Dave Perry, president of Exterior Wood.
An eighth-grade teacher at Laurin Middle School is facing charges of domestic violence assault after allegedly attacking his wife on more than one occasion.
Battle Ground Public Schools has not yet decided whether Michael Jon Brotherton will be placed on administrative leave pending the criminal case.
“We’re aware that the charges have been filed and are investigating,” school district spokeswoman Rita Sanders said Monday.
Investigators and the family of a Vancouver woman and mother of four who went missing in February still have scant little information to work from, and are pleading for the public’s help.
Family members last saw Ashanti A. Conde, 27, on Feb. 19, according to the Vancouver Police Department, which is investigating her disappearance.
Police officers pursued a driver from Vancouver into Portland’s Jantzen Beach area Tuesday afternoon, and attempted to run the driver off the road before ending the chase.
The chase started after 3:30 p.m., when, according to Vancouver Police Department spokeswoman Kim Kapp, an officer on patrol attempted to pull over a driver for reckless driving near St. Johns Road and Fourth Plain Boulevard.
After 20 years in operation, Clark County’s only ice rink is closing this summer.
Mountain View Ice Arena recently posted a letter on its Facebook page, alerting people to the closure and thanking them for their business. All passes and punch cards will expire on Aug. 31, the last day people can skate.
The east Vancouver ice rink is owned by Portland-based City Bible Church, which in 2016 signaled that it would remodel the building and open an elementary school.
