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Students play during rehearsal April 23 at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is heading up a new youth orchestra for Southwest Washington students.

‘We are expanding everything we do’: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra develops youth orchestra

Students play during rehearsal April 23 at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is heading up a new youth orchestra for Southwest Washington students.

May 10, 2025, 6:14am Clark County Life

Against a backdrop of disappearing federal dollars for arts and culture nationwide, and budget cuts at state and local arts and culture organizations, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra keeps growing. Read story

Check It Out: Determine doorway for delights

May 10, 2025, 6:10am Clark County Life

We library staff are surrounded by books all day, but one of the most challenging questions will always be “Can you recommend a good book?” Here’s an insight, readers: we know a lot of books, but we don’t know what YOU like. Nancy Pearl, a retired Seattle librarian who has… Read story

Coreopsis Moonbeam, left, and Geranium Rozanne, below, are my favorite long blooming perennial flowers. They are quite compatible together.

Gardening with Allen: Perennials look best in groups of 3, 5 or 7

Coreopsis Moonbeam, left, and Geranium Rozanne, below, are my favorite long blooming perennial flowers. They are quite compatible together.

May 10, 2025, 6:06am Clark County Life

What perennial flowers would you suggest to plant so I can have color all spring, summer and fall? Read story

Nancy Funk of Vancouver harvests vegetables in the heritage garden at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in August 2019. The first garden was established 200 years ago at the fur tradition post’s first location, near the present-day Washington School for the Deaf.

Clark County history: Fort Vancouver’s first farm

Nancy Funk of Vancouver harvests vegetables in the heritage garden at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in August 2019. The first garden was established 200 years ago at the fur tradition post’s first location, near the present-day Washington School for the Deaf.

May 10, 2025, 6:05am Clark County Life

The arrival of European settlers to the Columbia River brought the establishment of vegetable gardens and farms. A year before John Jacob Astor built Fort Astoria in Oregon, Nathan Winship sailed up the Columbia River on the sailing vessel Albatross. Read story

David Corenswet performs in a scene from “Superman.” (Warner Bros.

Superheroes returning to theaters this year

David Corenswet performs in a scene from “Superman.” (Warner Bros.

May 10, 2025, 6:02am Entertainment

Superman already has a lot on his broad shoulders. It seems unfair to add the fate of Hollywood to his worries. Read story

“American Impresario: William F.

Teenager’s fan letter led to friendship with William F. Buckley

“American Impresario: William F.

May 10, 2025, 6:00am Entertainment

You could trace Lawrence Perelman’s “American Impresario” to a Facebook post in the aughts. Or to a letter he wrote in 1994. Or to his family moving to St. Paul, Minn., from the Soviet Union in the 1970s, shortly before Perelman was born. Read story

Orogenesis Collective Executive Director Gabriel Tiller has logged thousands of miles in his truck on mountain bike scouting missions to explore lost and abandoned trails that could potentially become part of Orogenesis, the world’s longest mountain bike trail.

See the Washington segment on 5,000-mile mountain bike trail along West Coast

Orogenesis Collective Executive Director Gabriel Tiller has logged thousands of miles in his truck on mountain bike scouting missions to explore lost and abandoned trails that could potentially become part of Orogenesis, the world’s longest mountain bike trail.

May 10, 2025, 6:00am Life

Craving a novel Evergreen State adventure this summer? Saddle up your bike and ride the Loowit Tier, a 197-mile mountain bike route in the state’s southern Cascades range that was unveiled to the public last month. Read story

Juan Carlos Toapanta receives an acupuncture treatment in the sanctuary of St. Paul’s-San Pablo Lutheran Church, which recently added wellness sessions as part of its migrant ministry, in Minneapolis, Sunday, April 27, 2025.

Churches add wellness to migrant ministry

Juan Carlos Toapanta receives an acupuncture treatment in the sanctuary of St. Paul’s-San Pablo Lutheran Church, which recently added wellness sessions as part of its migrant ministry, in Minneapolis, Sunday, April 27, 2025.

May 10, 2025, 5:59am Churches & Religion

Right after Sunday worship at St. Paul’s-San Pablo Lutheran Church, Juan Carlos Toapanta lay in a lounge chair set up by the altar, needles sticking out of his forehead, wrist and foot for an hourlong acupuncture session. Read story

How should I care for indoor plants?

May 10, 2025, 5:57am Life

Bamboo on the bookshelf, chrysanthemums in the corner and a ficus in the foyer — many of us are putting plants everywhere in our homes lately. Not only are plants great decorative items in our home, but they’re also great for our health. Here are my tips for keeping your… Read story

Joe Metzger, co-owner of Safer Babies, makes a basement staircase safer for 13-month-old Sushil Laroia, who is cruising around the house with his mom, Sarah. (Photos by Alejandro A.

Old homes, young kids

Joe Metzger, co-owner of Safer Babies, makes a basement staircase safer for 13-month-old Sushil Laroia, who is cruising around the house with his mom, Sarah. (Photos by Alejandro A.

May 10, 2025, 5:56am Life

No one wants to think of their home as a potential death trap. Sometimes parents just can’t help it. Read story