September 8, 2022, 6:00am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
One of Vancouver’s historic imprints in the sky slowly came down Wednesday as construction crews began disassembling the Providence Academy’s smokestack brick by brick. Read story
September 6, 2022, 6:02am Business Subscriber Exclusive
By looking at Fourth Plain’s past, historians are identifying ways to combat gentrification and community displacement along Vancouver’s international corridor. Read story
August 21, 2022, 6:03am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
In another era, he might have been described as an all-American boy. He was a hardworking farm kid who crank-started the tractor by himself when he was 14. He saved his dollar-a-week allowance to buy a chemistry set. At the library, he checked out science books. Read story
August 14, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life
Hudson’s Bay Company employees played cricket games at Fort Vancouver, but baseball wasn’t played in the area until after the Civil War. As base ball (two words) started congealing into one word (baseball) shortly before the Civil War, it popped up still as two words across the Pacific Northwest a… Read story
July 17, 2022, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Picture Vancouver’s primary crosstown boulevard — busy with traffic, tightly lined by businesses and homes — as a primitive wagon road linking the original Fort Vancouver to a sprawling farming community miles to the northeast. Read story
July 16, 2022, 3:46pm Clark County News
At the rear of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site replica, underneath two green tents marked National Park Service, 20 children ages 8 to 12 knelt in the dirt next to five rectangular holes observed in the ground Saturday morning. Read story
July 7, 2022, 6:03am Clark County News
A Vancouver park received a new title nearly a year ago to honor past generations and their resiliency through hardship. Read story
July 5, 2022, 7:56pm Clark County News
More than 20 college students kneeled in the warm July heat, sifting through small square holes in the freshly dug ground on the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, searching for nails, ceramic remnants and other relics from the past. Read story
June 28, 2022, 6:02am Clark County News Free
The Clark County Council is accepting applications for the Historical Promotion Grants program. Under the program, local organizations are eligible to receive grants for historic preservation and programs, including preservation of historic documents. Read story
June 1, 2022, 6:04am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
Frank Wallace watched as 500 copies of his hometown’s newspaper, dated from May 30, 1925, zoomed on belts overhead. Read story