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Here are the highest tales on columbian.com this week:
Coming quickly? Trader Joe’s recordsdata for liquor license at new Skyview Station in Salmon Creek
Long-rumored anchor tenant Trader Joe’s has filed for a liquor license on the new Skyview Station in Salmon Creek.
Still, the grocery store has but to verify the placement at Northeast 139th Street and Northeast tenth Avenue is for certain.
Washington makes one other run at warmth pump guidelines
Controversial necessities aimed toward getting electrical warmth pumps put in in newly constructed homes, residences and business buildings cleared a ultimate regulatory hurdle Tuesday.
The suite of changespermitted by the Washington State Building Code Council, is a part of a broader effort by the state to slash carbon emissions and improve vitality effectivity in residential and business development.
Vancouver Police Okay-9 Hota has a nostril for detection, sniffs out digital storage units
The Vancouver Police Department’s latest Okay-9 officer sat close to the door of a room on the division’s West Precinct. The sweet-faced black Labrador retriever seemed to his companion for path.
“Ready to work? Ready to work?” Vancouver police Detective Jake Carlow requested Okay-9 Sahota, or Hota for brief. “Let’s get to work.”
Vancouver lecturers union recordsdata grievance about particular schooling coverage change, says it violates collective settlement
The Vancouver Education Association filed a grievance Monday with Vancouver Public Schools that alleges a change within the district’s particular schooling coverage violates pupil rights and the union’s collective bargaining settlement.
In a weekly publication to workers Nov. 13, the district requested for some middle- and high-school particular schooling college students to be moved to basic schooling school rooms for science, social research and well being lessons by the beginning of the second semester Jan. 30. The publication states the three topics aren’t types of “specifically designed instruction,” that means they shouldn’t be taught by particular schooling workers.
A pew with a view: Couple plan new cocktail lounge, occasion house in renovated former Ridgefield church
RIDGEFIELD — When Renee Serface and her husband, Justin, purchased the old white church in downtown Ridgefield in May 2021, they thought it could take about six months to renovate the house and reopen it as a cocktail lounge.
Although a lot has modified within the intervening two and a half years, their aim stays the identical. Serface stated they wish to create an area their patrons will expertise, not simply go to.