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September 9, 2022
Washougal School District Superintendent Mary Templeton welcomes students, parents and district employees back to school for the beginning of the 2022-23 school year in a video on Tuesday, Aug. 30. (Screenshot by Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

WSD superintendent defends hiring practices

Washougal School District Superintendent Mary Templeton lauded the district’s employment practices after a group of Washougal residents asked district leaders and Washougal School Board members to “refine and clarify” their hiring policies, which have led to, in their opinion, “inappropriate hires” during the past several years.

September 9, 2022
Katherine Baxter, a special education teacher at Canyon Creek Middle School, received the 2022 Public School Employees of Washington (PSE) Honorary Member of the Year award at the PSE Annual Convention on Saturday, July 23.  The PSE Honorary Member of the Year award honors individuals who have supported classified school employees in a significant way. (Contributed photo courtesy Washougal School District)

Washougal teacher earns PSE honor

Katherine Baxter, a special education teacher at Canyon Creek Middle School in Washougal, received the 2022 Public School Employees of Washington (PSE) Honorary Member of the Year award at the PSE Annual Convention on Saturday, July 23.

September 9, 2022
Trap Door Brewing opened a second location in downtown Washougal last month, bringing its award-winning beers and a pizza kitchen to East Clark County. (Photos by Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Downtown Washougal ‘moving in the right direction’

Earlier this year, representatives from dataPARC, a Vancouver-based technology company, reached out to Ed Fischer and asked him to help them find a new home for their growing business. They told Fischer, a commercial real estate agent and the former owner of Camas Bike and Sport, that they preferred to land in Camas or east Vancouver if possible.

September 1, 2022
Washougal Association of Educators President James Bennett (right) speaks during a Washougal School Board meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. (Contributed photo courtesy Washougal Association of Educators)

Washougal teachers contract in limbo

Washougal Association of Educators (WAE) members began the 2022-23 school year without a new teacher contract after failing to reach an agreement with the Washougal School District by the first day of school on Tuesday, Aug. 30.

September 1, 2022
Mark Castle
Washougal High School principal

Washougal High names principal

The Washougal School District has named Mark Castle as Washougal High School’s next principal, replacing Sheree Gomez-Clark, who accepted a job at the Camas School District in July.

August 25, 2022
An illustration shows how "Hyas Point" might be incorporated into a mixed-use development project on the Washougal waterfront. RKm Development announced in August 2022, that the development will be named Hyas Point. (Contributed graphic courtesy of the Port of Camas-Washougal)

Welcome to Hyas Point: Washougal waterfront development has a new name

From its inception in the early 2010s until earlier this month, the Port of Camas-Washougal’s Washougal waterfront development project was unnamed. Most of the time, Port officials and project leaders colloquially referred to it as “the waterfront development,” or by its more formal, but still unofficial, moniker, “The Waterfront at Parker’s Landing.”