Thirty years ago, I spent a year as a visiting scientist at Harwell Laboratory in England, during which my wife and I lived in Oxford.…
Posts published in “Community”
Wildfire season is just beginning, but in November, one neighborhood association in a rural part of Clark County already had fire danger on its mind.…
Ridgefield — Ridgefield School District officials recognized the May Employee and Students of the Month at a recent board meeting. The Employee of the Month…
WEST VANCOUVER — The Foundation for Vancouver Public Schools raised a record $300,000 at its 17th annual luncheon on May 7 at the Hilton Vancouver…
All of us have had a once-in-a-lifetime learning experience that changed our lives. My amazing lesson happened in 1947. I was age 11, in sixth…
Lauren Smith frequently drives by a mural in Orchards depicting local life in the early 1900s. The 70-foot-long mural has a prune-picking family standing in…
BATTLE GROUND — Five second-graders at Tukes Valley Primary School were the featured artists earlier in June and in Mayat Battle Ground City Hall. They…
RIDGEFIELD — Two Ridgefield High School students were honored for their artwork entered in the 46th annual Superintendent’s High School Art Show at the Office…
WOODLAND — Horticulture students at Woodland Middle School are learning a great deal about growing plants. Joe Bosch, a science and math teacher who also…
Matthew Merz has carried several eerie stories related to Southwest Washington in his memory since childhood. As a writer, he wanted to retell, or repurpose,…