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1. ‘Perfect storm’ of things hits Washington apple farmers, driving bankruptcies, consolidation
WAPATO — An ideal storm of financial challenges is pushing Washington apple farmers out of enterprise.
Small orchardists say they’re unable to maintain losses for years on finish amid financial situations they really feel will solely proceed to worsen. The closures are fueling a wave of personal equity-backed farmland consolidation.
4. A staple in Uptown Village, Important Road Dealer, will shut store in late January
After 43 years in Vancouver’s Uptown Village, a family-owned all-wood furnishings retailer is closing Jan. 26.
Important Road Dealer, on the nook of twentieth and Important streets, introduced the closure in a Dec. 26 Fb publish.
5. Sexual misconduct case in opposition to Hudson’s Bay Excessive College instructor dropped as a result of statute of limitations expiring
Citing the statute of limitations, prosecutors Thursday dropped the sexual misconduct case in opposition to a Hudson’s Bay Excessive College English instructor who was accused of getting intercourse with a 16-year-old feminine pupil in school in 2013.
Shadbreon Gatson, 43, had appeared Dec. 23 in Clark County Superior Court docket on suspicion of first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor. He was arrested Dec. 20 after the previous pupil, now 27, reported to Hudson’s Bay workers and Vancouver police earlier this month that she was sexually victimized.