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…
Posts published in “neighbors”
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,…
Battle Ground — Ethan Clarke, 9, just finished basketball practice back in February and was walking to his grandmother’s car. He got in the car…
Minnehaha — Furry Friends provided volunteer labor for the Acro-Cats shows held on May 25 and 26 at the Aladdin Theater in Portland. The no-kill,…
CAMAS — While reviewing some rules at a Camas-Washougal Aviation Association meeting inside a hangar in May, Kent Mehrer, the club’s president, gave members a…
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is a phrase I have heard many times. Yet I never dreamed of the different ways that…