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In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories from the week:
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office has fired a deputy photographed wearing, and who apparently merchandises, apparel affiliated with the Proud Boys, a far-right group known for its white nationalist rhetoric and frequent appearances in the middle of political violence locally and nationwide.
The sheriff’s office placed Deputy Erin Willey on leave for an internal investigation in response to The Columbian’s reporting, after the office was shown a photograph of Willey wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with a Proud Boys logo. She was terminated on Tuesday after the investigation was completed.
A 37-year-old woman died Wednesday evening after falling in the Potholes area below the dam at Lacamas Lake Park.
According to the Camas-Washougal Fire Department, the incident was reported about 7 p.m. Firefighters arrived to find the woman had died of traumatic injuries. A technical rescue team spent three hours to safely recover her body.
Craig Cheek knew even in his retirement he’d hardly be dormant.
Even before stepping down as a vice president at Nike two years ago after 26 years with the athletic apparel giant, the Vancouver native was planning his next move.
Cheek, 56, is now the founder and president of the Portland Diamond Project, heading the most recent, and perhaps most organized, effort to bring a Major League Baseball team to Portland.
Construction is underway on a new, 10,500-square-foot Goodwill in Orchards.
As first reported in December, this new, fully fledged retail store will be its sixth in Clark County. The store will be staffed by 40 workers and boast a drive-thru donation area and three loading docks to handle people’s donated clothes, furniture, toys and other goods.
A woman involved in the beating and fatal shooting of a man whose body was found in a shed at her Hockinson-area residence pleaded guilty last week to second-degree murder, as part of a cooperation agreement.
Traci Lynn Mendez has agreed to testify against her four co-defendants: Neil Allen Alway, 40, Ashley Lorraine Barry, 32, John Michael West, 44, and Ashley L. Wideman, 24, all transients, court records show.
