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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.”

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.