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Check It Out: Handwritten correspondence brings special connection
Author: Jan Johnston

Do people still send postcards?

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As mediation program for tenants and landlords ends, evictions surge in Clark County
Author: Alexis Weisend

You can feel the stress in Room 302 of the Clark County Courthouse.

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You Can Help: Volunteer Opportunities
Author: The Columbian

Volunteers are needed for autumn events at Pomeroy Farm, 20902 N.E. Lucia Falls Road in Yacolt.

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She was a photographer who couldn’t see her art, but this Vancouver woman found a medium that touches her
Author: Alexis Weisend

Although Patty White’s eyes don’t see well, they light up when she describes her artistic process.

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Everybody Has a Story: Card party in the suburbs
Author: Bonnie Hennessey, West Hazel Dell

It was the Saturday morning after my first week of third grade in Des Plaines, Ill., about 20 miles west of Chicago, when I woke up to the sound of the vacuum cleaner. Mom was busy vacuuming, dusting and arranging extra chairs around the dining room table. I got up to see what was going on. She was getting out the highball glasses and fancy bowl from the china cabinet.

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How well do you know the trees in your Vancouver neighborhood?
Author: Scott Hewitt

How many trees call the city of Vancouver home? And what kinds of trees are they? Not even Charles Ray, Vancouver’s urban forester, knows all the answers.

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U.S. won’t have pandas for first time in 50 years
Author: Ryan Teague Beckwith and Courtney McBride, Bloomberg News

WASHINGTON — Giant pandas are everywhere at Washington, DC’s National Zoo. Three live in the zoo’s $50 million Asia Trail. T-shirts, trucker hats and refrigerator magnets bear their image. A 24-hour panda-cam broadcasts the trio’s every move. Even the QR code to reserve zoo tickets features a panda silhouette.

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Invasive mussels eat away at history in Great Lakes
Author: TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater were left so pristine they could practically fly again when archaeologists finally discovered them.

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Guinness World Records celebrates the ‘crazy, fun’
Author: MARK KENNEDY, Associated Press

NEW YORK — Do you know the highest average grossing movie franchise in history? That’s easy, “Avatar.” What about the record for the most balloons popped in one minute by a pogostick? Or the longest journey in a pumpkin boat?

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How will rural Americans fare during Medicaid unwinding? Experts fear they’re on their own
Author: Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, KFF Health News

Abby Madore covers a lot of ground each day at work.

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