Why: Benny’s Rod & Custom Pizza Cafe opened in 2006. The restaurant’s menu focuses mainly on classic sandwiches and burgers, as well as a variety…
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Last year’s first try at a height-of-summer tamale festival in Washougal was a victim of its own success. Overwhelmed by lots of eager tamale fans,…
The grand opening of a Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum branch in Hazel Dell could offer a once-in-a-lifetime event for car enthusiasts Friday with…
Julie Burger’s memory and cognition are slowly fading, but she has a plan for that. Burger, 79, started to notice changes to her recall in…
On a Friday afternoon Lisa Spiegel throws a heft of sweet, yeasty dough onto her kitchen counter and asks, “What do you want to be?”…
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…
Gwendolyn Morgan has crossed paths with some serious celebrities since she was named Clark County Poet Laureate last year, but none of them transformed her…
Jon O’Keefe’s journey to becoming chief cookie officer of his own company, Woke Baking, started two years ago. At age 36, he developed Bell’s palsy…
Why: El Buen Gusto has been open for two years serving authentic Mexican favorites. The family owned and operated restaurant may not have a big…








