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Sunday, December 3, 2023

Dec. 3, 2023

Evergreen, Vancouver public schools brace for staff cuts in 2024

It’s still 2023, but local school districts are already preparing for next year’s budget. Both Evergreen and Vancouver anticipate serious shortfalls requiring staff cuts, all while students are still struggling to recover from lingering effects of the pandemic.

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Sharol Lucey, a 76-year-old Vancouver resident, is among the longest-living heart transplant patients in the region. She sits near a picture of her heart donor, Steven Haugen, who died in 1997, making her life possible.

Two families, one heart: OHSU heart transplant patient from Vancouver lives life to the fullest almost three decades after surgery

The heart that brought two families together 26 years ago still beats rhythmically in Sharol Lucey’s chest.

Clark County News

Mount Adams rises above Trout Lake in Klickitat County. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Cascades Volcano Observatory is proposing to install five real-time monitoring stations around the volcano to detect lahars, which would give neighboring communities time to evacuate.

A lahar on Mount Adams would put thousands at risk but monitoring stations would warn of dangerous flows

As Pat Arnold plucked weeds from her yard with a view of snow-capped Mount Adams, she navigated around large boulders that hint at the volcano’s destructive past.

Life

Engineering and landscape architecture firms presented three designs for the city of Washougal’s Town Center Revitalization Project, including a preferred option (pictured) and two alternatives, to the Washougal City Council Monday, Nov. 20, 2023.

Washougal considers ‘preferred’ option for town center project with outdoor community space near future library

Washougal City Council members are leaning toward one design option for the city’s future Town Center Revitalization Project, but said they will require more detailed information before making a final…

Clark County News

Crown Park has been Camas’ living room for decades, but many of its facilities are getting old. The city’s parks commission hopes the city council will approve plans to spend $6.3 million to update the entire park.

Long-awaited remodeling of Crown Park in Camas on cusp of realization

The long-awaited remodeling of Crown Park, Camas’ “outdoor living room,” is on the cusp of realization.

Clark County News

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The Beacock Music Jazz Band brings the swing to Clearwater Springs Assisted Living one morning in November. Senior homes are “a great circuit” for senior musicians, said bandleader Gene Burton, on saxophone at front right.

‘Music makes everybody happy’: Beacock Music Jazz Band keeps senior musicians busy and musically sharpSubscriber Exclusive

If you thought that life in retirement was quiet, get a load of the huge, happy noise the Beacock Music Jazz Band pumps out.

Clark County

Pedestrian killed in hit-and-run collision in Hazel Dell early Saturday morningUpdated 32 mins ago

A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run incident early Saturday morning on Highway 99 in Hazel Dell, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office reported.

Business

Betsy Quiroa shops at a market-style food pantry at the Carver Center in Port Chester, N.Y., Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. A growing number of states are working to keep food out of landfills over concerns that it is taking up too much space and posing environmental problems. Some states including New York are requiring supermarkets and other businesses to redirect food to food pantries.

Tackling climate change and alleviating hunger: States recycle and donate food headed to landfills

When Sean Rafferty got his start in the grocery business, anything that wasn’t sold got tossed out.

Northwest

Visitors look at a replica of NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity during its unveiling ceremony at the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum in Bengaluru on June 1, 2023.

NASA feels a ‘sense of urgency’ to get to Mars. Idaho scientists could help us get there

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Sports

Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. celebrates after the team defeated Oregon in the Pac-12 championship NCAA college football game Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, in Las Vegas.

Washington to play Texas in semifinal at Sugar Bowl

Any anxiety the Texas Longhorns experienced over whether they would be included in the College Football Playoff lifted Sunday when the selection committee matched them…

Politics

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump, right, is introduced by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott at the South Texas International Airport Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023, in Edinburg, Texas. Abbott and Trump help serve a Thanksgiving meal to Texas state troopers and guardsmen.

Trump calls Biden the ‘destroyer’ of democracy despite his own efforts to overturn 2020 election

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to turn the tables on his likely rival in November, President Joe Biden, arguing that the man whose…