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Stories by Doug Flanagan

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July 7, 2022
Zoe Nash, the new manager of the Washougal Community Library, worked for the Orange County,  Calif., library system for 10 years prior to coming to Washougal in 2022. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

New Washougal library manager ready to ‘make connections’

Zoe Nash developed an interest in library sciences relatively later in life, somewhat by chance. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in cultural anthropology from the University of California-Santa Barbara in 2006 and intended to pursue a career as an archivist, but eventually realized that occupation wasn’t for her and discovered her true passion in another walk of life.

July 7, 2022
Washougal School District facilities, maintenance and grounds manager Jessica Beehner took "before and after" photos outside Hathaway Elementary School's portable buildings to show what the area looked like "before," in 2021, (left) and after the district installed LED lights in 2022 (right). (Contributed photos courtesy of Jessica Beehner)

Washougal School District invests in brighter, ‘greener’ LEDs

During a Washougal School Board meeting earlier this year, Washougal School District facilities, maintenance and grounds supervisor Jessica Beehner clicked through a PowerPoint presentation that contained side-by-side photos of Hathaway and Gause elementary schools, Washougal High School and two other district locations, taken in 2021 and earlier this year.

July 7, 2022
Washougal High School Principal Sheree Gomez-Clark delivers a commencement address during the school's graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 11, 2022. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Washougal High School on the hunt for a new principal

Sheree Gomez-Clark wasn’t planning on leaving her job as the principal at Washougal High School at the end of the 2021-22 school year. But, as she says, the universe sometimes works in weird and unexpected ways. It certainly did for her last month.