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Visitors to the Gifford Pinchot National Forest should expect fewer services as the second Trump administration lays off federal workers.
The administration has not released an official tally of staff cuts, but nonprofit organizations that collaborate with the U.S. Forest Service are gathering whatever information they can about what’s happening locally.
CAMAS — Camas city officials have asked the state Department of Ecology to require cleanup at the Georgia-Pacific paper mill site extensive enough to make it safe for housing and other uses beyond heavy industry.
The Camas City Council passed a resolution Feb. 18 stating that city leaders “deeply value the role the G-P mill has played in the city’s history and recognize its continued significance as an economic driver,” but want to ensure the 661-acre downtown Camas site has a range of redevelopment possibilities should G-P ever decide to close the paper mill.
The city of Vancouver will close the West Mill Plain Boulevard sound wall to camping March 5 after almost a year of complaints from neighbors.
Winter weather delayed the city’s original goal of closing the camp in February, said Jamie Spinelli, the city’s homeless response manager.
Vancouver police are investigating the disappearance of a 51-year-old Vancouver man who was reported missing Feb. 17.
Police received reports that Cannon Sullenberger didn’t show up for business appointments, which his loved ones said was unusual for him. According to Sullenberger’s family, he was last seen Feb. 16 near his business, Body Design Fitness, 4857 N.W. Lake Road, Suite 205, Camas.
A Vancouver man is facing an allegation of attempted murder after police say he intentionally crashed his car into the motorcycle his son was riding, landing his son in the hospital.
Keith M. Altamirano, 52, appeared Thursday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree attempted murder. At the prosecutor’s request, the judge also found probable cause for allegations of vehicular assault and hit-and-run resulting in injury.
