Camas-Washougal Post-Record

July 21, 2022

Washougal High School baseball player Damien Panko (left) plays in a home game against Centralia in March 2022. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record files)

New Panther Foundation nonprofit to help student-athletes

Since moving to Washougal in 2014, parents Michael and Jessica Minnis have enthusiastically supported Washougal High School athletics.

July 21, 2022

Washougal resident Gracie Olmos (second from left) is surrounded by her Greenberry Lady A's 12UB teammates after making the final out of the 2022 USA Softball of Washington state tournament, held July 1-3, 2022, in Vancouver. (Contributed photo courtesy of Jeanette Blunt)

Camas softball club team takes state title

The Camas-based Greenberry Lady A’s 12U softball club players don’t tend to display a lot of emotion, even after winning big games.

July 14, 2022

Graffiti is painted on a building in Washougal in 2022. The city of Washougal is exploring options to eliminate the growing issue of graffiti. (Contributed photos courtesy of the city of Washougal)

Washougal leaders say ‘costly, destructive’ graffiti getting worse

Washougal leaders say the city’s graffiti problem seems to be getting worse.

July 14, 2022

An artist's rendering shows Building 20, the Port of Camas-Washougal's newest addition to its industrial park. The Port expects the new building to be completed in early 2023. (Contributed photos courtesy of the Port of Camas-Washougal)

Recluse Brewing Company heading to Washougal

The Port of Camas-Washougal is ready to welcome a brand-new brewery to its brand-new industrial building in 2023.

July 7, 2022

Contributed photo courtesy Rene Carroll
Friends of the Washougal Library fundraising group members pose for a photograph in front of a sign at hte future home of the new Washougal library in 2021.

Farm-to-table event will add to Washougal library building fund

Judy Musa believes that The Get To-Gather Farm and the yet-to-be-built new Washougal library have one important thing in common.

July 7, 2022

Then-Washougal High School students (from left to right) Brevan Bea, Julien Jones, Jakob Davis and Dalton Payne fish along the Washougal River on Nov. 11, 2019. (Post-Record file photo)

Which Watershed? Washougal wants public’s input before starting stormwater plan

Washougal officials are asking local residents to help them decide which Washougal watershed — either Gibbons Creek or the Washougal River — city leaders should select for an upcoming stormwater management plan.

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.

June 30, 2022

Washougal mayoral candidate Molly Coston (center) celebrates her election lead with Washougal City Councilwoman Joyce Lindsay (right) and Cathy Morton (left) at 54 40 Brewing on Nov. 8, 2017. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

All hail Camas Days’ ‘Queen Molly’

For the past several years, Molly Coston was known as “Mayor Molly.” Now, she may be known as “Queen Molly.”