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In case you missed it, here are some of the top stories of the week:
A chorus of hundreds on Tuesday sang familiar but very different refrains on the oil terminal proposed for the Port of Vancouver.
It’s an economic bounty.
It’s an environmental disaster.
We can do this safely.
We can’t do this safely.
Their discordant voices echoed throughout the enormous Hall B at the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds. State and local representatives who will play a large role in determining the fate of what would be the nation’s largest oil transfer terminal listened on as the voices continued through the afternoon and late into the evening. More than two years after the Port of Vancouver commission unanimously approved the project, the rhetoric for and against the project remained as heated as ever.
Read more about the hearing.
The lines appear to have already been drawn for the recently expanded Clark County council.
In their first meeting Tuesday, the now five-member Clark County council voted 3-to-2 to repeal eight resolutions championed by Republican Councilor David Madore that covered a spectrum of transportation and zoning issues. It also voted, by the same breakdown, to revisit the 2 percent property tax levy decrease the county council approved early last month, laying the groundwork for that decision to be reversed.
Learn more about how the new County Council’s first meeting went.
Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar will be the first restaurant at Grant Street Pier in downtown Vancouver’s future, $1.3 billion, mixed-use waterfront project, Gramor Development announced Wednesday.
The Spokane-based restaurant company signed a lease with Columbia Waterfront LLC, a private investors’ group led by Gramor Development.
Read more about Twigs Bistro.
Downtown Vancouver is playing musical chairs, of sorts. New stores are coming in, others are moving down the street, and some old establishments have closed up shop.
It’s par for the course for Bradley Richardson, who as curator at the Clark County Historical Museum takes people on walking tours and talks about the businesses and people that used to occupy these historic buildings.
Learn more about the changes in downtown Vancouver.
Having been reminded of an incident from my past by the History Channel, I feel compelled to share.
Sometime in the early 1980s, a cousin and I were coming home in the afternoon from a fruitless deer hunting day in the area of Bear Prairie, northeast of Washougal.
Read the rest of R.J. “Bob” Rodgers’ story.
BRUSH PRAIRIE — The county recently lost a ton of community leadership very quickly. It includes people who — over the past few years — have been mayor of Battle Ground, a city councilor, presidents of two local Rotary Clubs and a Clark College trustee.
Other community losses include a recent Loaves and Fishes committee chairman, an incident commander in the state’s emergency management system, executive director of a nonprofit teen center and recent board members with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and North County Food Bank.
That’s not all Mike and Gilda Ciraulo did. Learn more about the couple.
