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August 15, 2024
Boy Scout Troop 562 scouts (left to right) Alex Sample, Harris Royer, Vance Gooch, Reece Sample and Mac Clark gather after receiving their Eagle Scout awards in Camas, Aug. 10, 2024. (Contributed photo courtesy of Lisa Sample)

‘A pretty big accomplishment’

Five members of Camas-based Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Troop 562 achieved the rank of Eagle Scout during a ceremony on Aug. 10 at the Camas Church of the Nazarene.

August 8, 2024
Washougal resident Susan Fronckowiak will participate in her first art show at the 2024 Washougal Art and Music Festival, to be held Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Reflection Plaza. (Contributed photo courtesy Susan Fronckowiak)

Washougal Art and Music Festival returns Saturday

Susan Fronckowiak’s two young children enjoyed the playhouse their father built for them on the family’s rural Washougal property after they relocated to Clark County in the late 2000s, but naturally grew out of it as they got older.

August 8, 2024
Rachel Grice and her dog, Rusty, take a walk near Grice's Washougal home off Southeast 356th Avenue in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area in 2018. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

County denies mining company’s road proposal near ‘Washougal Pit’

The Clark County Council has unanimously approved a recommendation to deny a proposal from a Ridgefield-based mining company to redesignate a private residential road in rural Washougal as a public thoroughfare, delivering another blow to the company’s long-standing hopes of resuming mining activity in the area.

August 1, 2024
James Cook performs at the 2023 Washougal Songcraft Festival. (Contributed photos courtesy of Washougal Songcraft Festival)

Second annual Washougal Songcraft Festival returning bigger than before

The 2024 Washougal Songcraft Festival (WSF) will feature more concerts, more performers and more venues than it did in 2023, its inaugural year. Some of that growth is by design and some of it is happening as the result of some unexpected news delivered by the owner of one of the 2023 festival’s host venues.

August 1, 2024
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 The Port of Camas-Washougal will replace the dirt and concrete trail behind the Black Pearl event center (above) with a pathway, featuring safety lighting and guardrails, that will connect Washougal Waterfront Park and Parkers Landing Marina. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Port plans pedestrian pathway

The Port of Camas-Washougal is connecting two of its primary riverside attractions with a short-but-safe walking path.