If you know any newspaper reporters, you probably know our minds are usually thinking one to two weeks ahead of the calendar date and our short-term memory can be iffy. That’s why writing the monthly Cheers & Jeers editorial requires us to flip through every story we’ve published that month to find the issues that deserve a thumbs up — and those that deserve to be called out in a “jeers.”
Fire chief appreciates voters’ support
While drones are coming of age in firefighting, they are also establishing a foothold in restoring fire-scorched forests.
As this newspaper was headed for the printer, we all received tragic news: a young teen boy, out for a late afternoon of fun with his friends, had drowned in Camas’ Lacamas Lake.
Guns have changed, now laws must change
Donald Trump says everyone is tired of the word racism.
The recent livestock debate in Washougal — or the “pig and chicken fight” as we’ve been calling it at editorial meetings — is a classic tale of a once-rural town growing into its new urban limbs.
Sweden and Washington State are very similar. Both have strong “green” movements and are quickly moving to eliminate all carbon-emitting fuels from cars and power plants. The caution for…
The horror of last weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio was still fresh when more than 400 Clark County school administrators gathered inside Camas’ Discovery High School Monday morning…
The massive floodplain restoration project slated for Washougal’s Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge clicked into high-gear last month.
