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Stories by Doug Flanagan

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August 25, 2022
Port of Camas-Washougal Commissioner Cassi Marshall charges her electric vehicle (EV) at the Port's new EV charging station for the first time on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. (Photos by Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Port of Camas-Washougal adds EV chargers

The Port of Camas-Washougal has installed a charging station in front of its Washougal office in an effort to encourage electric vehicle (EV) use and bring more visitors to East Clark County.

August 25, 2022
Camas resident Kadie Frazier sits next to a mural she painted on an East County Little League equipment shed at Lower Hathaway Park, in Washougal, during the summer of 2022. (Contributed photos courtesy of Kadie Frazier)

Camas-Washougal volunteers pitch in after Little League mural vandalized

On Thursday, May 17, East County Little League (ECLL) president Danielle Neumann received a text message from volunteer coach Micah Harpel that contained a photo and some distressing news about the league’s storage shed at Lower Hathaway Park. Harpel had discovered that at some point earlier that day or previous evening, vandalizers broke into the shed and tagged it with graffiti, ruining the baseball-themed mural on the side of the building.

August 18, 2022
Children participate in the TreeSong Nature Awareness and Retreat Center's Circle Keepers Nature Immersion Program in 2022. TreeSong plans to launch a new Forest School, an outdoor nature education program with a focus on academics, on Sept. 6, 2022. (Contributed photos courtesy of Michelle Fox)

TreeSong to launch ‘forest school’ for children

Michelle Fox had been wanting to expand the children’s programming at the TreeSong Nature Awareness and Retreat Center for the past several years, but couldn’t come to a final decision until earlier this year, when a series of events lined up perfectly to create an opportunity for the Washougal nonprofit orgnization’s next evolution.

August 18, 2022
Cathy Lehmann
is Mount Pleasant School's new  superintendent and principal

Mt. Pleasant welcomes new superintendent

Cathy Lehmann hopes to bring stability to the Mount Pleasant School District, which has undergone a series of leadership changes since the end of the 2019-20 school year.

August 11, 2022

Police investigate Smead’s Pub vandalism

The owner of Smead’s Pub in Washougal says that an “inexperienced arsonist” threw two incendiary devices onto her establishment’s roof in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 31, causing damage to the building but no injuries.