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Hobby Lobby, along with a bowling and amusement games venue, appear to be destined for the former Sears space at Vancouver Mall.
Seritage Growth Properties, the publicly traded New York company that owns the vacant storefront, lists the craft shop and the entertainment complex, called Round1, along with restaurant and retail space, as the planned uses. The plans for the Vancouver Mall property were among a list of 82 redevelopment projects listed in the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report issued Feb. 28.
The Vancouver Police Department identified two detectives Monday who were involved in the fatal shooting of a 43-year-old man Thursday in Hazel Dell.
The involved officers were detectives Dennis Devlin, 45, and Colton Price, 30, according to a police department news release. Both have been involved in separate officer-involved shootings within the past six years, according to Columbian archives.
A Camas woman who tried to slice and stab to death her live-in boyfriend with a samurai sword, because she believed he was unfaithful and spent too much time playing video games, was sentenced Monday morning to 19 years in prison.
Emily Javier, 31, pleaded guilty Jan. 23 in Clark County Superior Court to attempted first-degree domestic violence murder in the March 3, 2018, attack. Javier, who had no prior criminal history, faced a standard sentencing range of 15 to 20 years in prison.
Mac Potts, a busy Vancouver piano man who plays and sings everywhere from local restaurants like WareHouse ’23 to concert stages in Portland and New Orleans, is about to appear in an entirely new venue: the small screen and the 17th season of “American Idol.”
Potts is sworn to secrecy, but he did admit during a telephone interview that he personally auditioned before Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie for a slot on the TV singing competition, and that his audition performance will be aired sometime soon — but not before he participates in an important annual fundraising concert Friday at Ridgefield High School, he said.
Opening a new retail bookstore might seem like a risky venture in the era of Amazon, ebooks and online shopping, but Vancouver resident Kari Ferguson thinks she has a strategy to succeed: make the store a destination.
Her bookstore, Dickens Children’s Books and Publishing Lab, is scheduled to open Friday on Main Street in Vancouver’s Uptown neighborhood.
