Local Community, Vancouver WA

Even though Bill Turlay has been a Navy fighter pilot and business executive, he still had a touch of the jitters reciting the oath of office Jan. 9 to become the newest member of the Vancouver City Council.

Random bits about the importance of FIRST robotic

A behind-the-scenes look at the life of Washougal-based Elvis tribute artist Mark Stevenz. Stevenz, who spends his days as a landscape worker, dreams of one day being a full-time Elvis tribute artist on a cruise ship or in a casino.

There's the road you travel, there's the 'road not taken,' as so eloquently written about by poet Robert Frost, and in Clark County there is also the road that takes you straight into the dirt. It's the new Roots to Road program.

Things are growing at Dilish Farm in Vancouver where Dillon Haggerty and Patricia Kent are well into their first season of urban farming.

Bill Leigh, owner of the Kiggins Theatre building, was approached by several people encouraging him to put the Kiggins, located at 1011 Main St., on the National Register of Historic Places, but he felt the designation presented 'too many restrictions and not enough benefits.'

When you ask Clark County kids what they like best about playing outside you hear a variety of responses from ladybugs, snails and worms, to a quick dash down a playground slide for pure pleasure.

Vancouver parks and recreation catalog

Local pilots and flight enthusiasts share their love of flight and appreciation of Pearson Field.

I don't remember my life very much, said Tyler Presnell as he sat down to share his story with COUV.COM. From a black shoulder bag he pulled four pictures: One of his practically unblemished face while he slept in a coma, one of of his bare chest revealing a 12-inch scar, and two pictures of what put him in the hospital - the crushed car that wrapped his body around a telephone pole.