Auditor Greg Kimsey said there are about 2,700 contested votes left to count, and several hundred more should trickle in during the coming days. Dalesandro would have to pick up 81 percent of those contested ballots to win.
Learn more about Boldt’s win and all of the election results.
With pitchforks, shovels and a backhoe, Vancouver Public Works employees on Wednesday cleaned up blocks of trash left behind after police ordered a large homeless camp to disperse earlier this week.
City crews conducted rolling, temporary street closures on West Lincoln Avenue from West Mill Plain Boulevard south to West 12th Street during the work, which began around 10 a.m. Portions of West King, West 13th and West 14th streets also were barricaded temporarily.
Read more about cleaning the site of the former homeless camp.
For the first time in 14 years, the Clark-Vancouver Regional Drug Task Force has its own drug detection dog.
“I love our human counterparts, but there’s nothing like a dog,” Clark County Sheriff Chuck Atkins said.
Piper, a 2-year-old black Labrador retriever, was sworn in Wednesday, becoming the first four-legged officer to join the task force since 2001. Piper replaces police K-9 Shadow, who worked in the drug unit until her handler, Tim Hudlicky, died of a brain aneurysm and Shadow was reassigned to patrol duty.
Met Piper and read about her busy week.
Fred Meyer’s Orchards store is among the first in the regional grocery chain to launch a new online shopping service that allows grocery shoppers to complete the task without setting foot in the store.
Fred Meyer’s “ClickList” service, launched Monday at the Orchards store, allows shoppers to choose grocery items, including meat and produce, online from a computer or mobile device. The order must be made a day in advance of pickup. The company says 40,000 items are available and more are being added. A “Favorites” list on the order form can be used to store regularly purchased items for future reference.
The next step for a customer is to schedule a pickup time, any time between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Groceries are brought to the car in a newly developed pickup area on the west side of the store, 7411 N.E. 117th Ave. Customers don’t have to leave their cars: payments are taken by Fred Meyer employees using tablets.
Learn more about how it works.
Darrell Eugene Lee, the once-prominent Clark County businessman and attorney whose most notable client was child killer Westley Allan Dodd, died Tuesday morning at a Vancouver care facility. He was 74 years old.
Lee, who had his own law firm, also owned several cardrooms in Clark County, and opened the first in La Center in 1985. Later, he transitioned into real estate development in Vancouver, Fiji and south Texas.
As Dodd’s attorney, he helped the notorious killer achieve his wish to be executed. He became the first person to be executed in Washington since 1965. Dodd, then 31, was sentenced to die after pleading guilty to molesting and killing Vancouver brothers William and Cole Neer, ages 10 and 11, and Lee Iseli, 4, of Portland.
Read more about Lee.
CAMAS — Kong rises high into the air. Football in hand. Anger in his eyes.
And here come the Camas Papermakers.
The players rush through the air-inflated tunnel — Kong’s legs — onto the field at Doc Harris Stadium, and a packed house screams in anticipation for the big game.
The expression on Kong, the giant Papermaker, never changes. Focused. He looks fierce. Just like the players.
The fans, though, are encouraged to smile, to enjoy, to embrace more than a football game. This is a community experience.
Join the community spirit.
