Scott Hewitt

In summer 2019, southern-rock trendsetters Lynyrd Skynyrd said their concert at Clark County’s RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater was part of a farewell tour. Probably. Unless, you know, things turn out differently.

The Indigenous legend of Grandmother Camus is a story of love, sacrifice and transformation.

If you’re a newspaper reader, you probably already know the depressing conventional wisdom about print journalism: It’s been on the decline for decades thanks to an obsolete business model. Given the glut of free (albeit low-quality) news and free classified advertising available on the internet, daily newspapers reliant on subscriptions and ads for cashflow just can’t keep up.

CAMAS — Healthful exercise can require serious effort and focus, like maintaining yoga’s difficult boat pose, which requires balancing on your bottom while holding up your legs and torso rigidly, forming a human V.

Over the past few decades, community builders have bemoaned the loss of organized American togetherness as team, club and congregation membership has dwindled. From Sunday morning church services to Thursday night bowling league, people just don’t assemble in friendly groups like they used to — or so goes the theory outlined by sociologist Robert Putnam’s 2000 bestseller, “Bowling Alone.”

This year, you could visit the Columbia River Gorge to take in its breathtaking views, its unique geology, its brilliant wildflowers.

Whatever you do, do it big. So big, even the folks up in the nosebleed seats can’t miss it.

In a 1923 book called “The Principle of Relativity,” Albert Einstein seemed to call out to better-equipped scientists of the future to establish the truth of his mind-bending theoretical work.

Depending on whom you ask, the closure of several art galleries in downtown Camas is either a sad coincidence or a gloomy economic indicator for brick-and-mortar art shops.

People were walking around this beautiful region long before it became known as Southwest Washington.