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In case you missed it, here are some of the top stories of the week:
Vancouver’s BNSF railyard has a venerable visitor for the next few days: a working steam locomotive.
The Southern Pacific 4449 arrived at midday Monday for a few days of video production work, which will see it running periodically through the Columbia River Gorge to Wishram, a railroad town about 100 miles east of Vancouver.
The Malt Shop and Grill and adjoining Chicken & Rib House at the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds were consumed by a fire early Wednesday morning.
Flames destroyed much of the property inside the single metal building, and owners Betty and Larry Bowman said they’re unsure how they will recover.
“To rebuild and restock … everything is gone,” Betty Bowman said. “We’d like to return, but right now, financially, it’s looking hard.”
A Hudson’s Bay High School student was just tryna catch the beat when he brought a record player to his physics midterm this week.
When Eric Saueracker, a math and physics teacher at the Vancouver high school, told his students they weren’t permitted to bring their phones to the physics midterm Wednesday, even for music, one student found a loophole.
One morning in late February, Eric Temple decided he’d had enough.
Temple is the president of Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad, the company that holds the lease with Clark County to operate the rail line that runs through Chelatchie Prairie. For the last several months, Temple has been arguing with Clark County staff over how to implement a change to state law that would allow industrial development on farmland along 33 miles of the underutilized line.
A man accused of stabbing his 69-year-old grandfather in the neck Wednesday morning at his home in the Minnehaha area is being held without bail as he awaits the judge’s order for a competency evaluation that was requested by his attorney.
The victim, Richard LaFountain, was in serious condition at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center as of Thursday afternoon, according to a hospital spokesman.
LaFountain’s grandson, 24-year-old Zakary A. French, appeared Thursday morning in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree assault.
