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Here are some of the stories that grabbed readers’ attention this weekend.
The number of homicides in Clark County climbed to 16 in 2017, but that five-year high doesn’t necessarily indicate a trend.
The Vancouver Police Department handled 11 of those cases. Suspects have been named or arrested in all of them except one — the Dec. 30 shooting of 23-year-old Vincent Trevino.
In 2016, the county saw 11 homicides; the prior totals for 2012-15 were six, 13, 10 and 11. That’s according to an annual pamphlet prepared by the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office with the help of victim advocates. It’s possible some cases have been overlooked. Even so, 2017 was among the worst for homicides in some time.
Learn more about the deaths in Clark County in 2017.
Some trendy new residential communities are rising around Clark County and they’re showing what one might call “moxie.”
Offering gyms, movie theaters and even in-house hairstylists, the buildings are booking fast even though they aren’t open yet. Rents start in the low $1,000s and only go up from there.
These are not downtown high-rises aimed at the millennial generation. They are senior living facilities.
Read more about the increase in senior living facilities and the rising need.
Erin Maher waited 496 days to hear the news her oncologist delivered on Dec. 11.
Since that summer day in 2016 when Maher — 32 years old and 14 weeks pregnant — was diagnosed with breast cancer, she’s wanted to hear that her aggressive cancer had been beaten back, forced to retreat from her body.
And after chemotherapy, a lumpectomy, induced labor, more chemotherapy, radiation and one more round of chemotherapy, Maher learned that it had worked.
No evidence of disease.
“This is the end,” Maher said. “I need to be confident that it’s not coming back. I need to move forward.”
But, in the back of her mind, Maher knows she’s not in the clear. Not yet.
Read more about Erin Maher’s battle with cancer.
LONGVIEW — If Federal Election Commission reports are like pulse checks for political campaigns, the latest quarterly filings indicate WSU Vancouver professor Carolyn Long is off to a healthy start in her bid to unseat Southwest Washington Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler.
But there’s still a yawning chasm separating Long from the Republican incumbent and her closest Democratic opponent.
Long reported raising $40,106 since formally announcing her candidacy on Nov. 30, with $34,606 of that coming from individual donors.
Learn more about the candidates hoping to unseat the congresswoman.
CAMAS — It’s not every day that a wedding comes with its own movie blurb and rating.
Then again, it’s not every day that a wedding is held at the Liberty Theatre in Camas. Weddings in the theater don’t really happen on any day, as Liberty Theatre Managing Director Rand Thornsley attested after the marriage of Nick Calais, 31, and Tami Weidert, 33, in the Main Theatre on Friday afternoon.
“One-time event, and it will never happen again. This is it,” Thornsley said. “It’s a good thing for the community.”
Learn more about the couple and their wedding.
