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April 13, 2023
Jemtegaard band performs at Trail Blazers game
Jemtegaard Middle School music students delivered a clutch performance on the biggest of stages last month.
Jemtegaard Middle School music students delivered a clutch performance on the biggest of stages last month.
After the Washougal School District’s replacement educational programs and operations and technology and capital projects levy proposals failed in February, district leaders knew that they had to revamp their communication process and engage in “straight talk,” in the words of WSD Superintendent Mary Templeton, if they hoped to convince enough community members to vote for the measures on Tuesday, April 25.
The Parkersville National Historic Site Advisory Committee (PAC) will host “park cleanup” sessions at Parker’s Landing Historical Park in Washougal from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, and Tuesday, May 16, in preparation for the second annual Parkersville Day event.
Mark Bauer stood in a nearly empty Gause Elementary School gymnasium on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 28, wiping “silly string” from his face and clothes.
A nonprofit organization that supports breweries in Southwest Washington says that its former distribution company is “strong-arming” and “bullying” its businesses, including Washougal’s 54-40 Brewing Company and Trap Door Brewing, and Camas’ Grains of Wrath Brewing, by assigning them to “alternate distributors” without consulting them.
Barb Seaman closely interacts with teenagers on a daily basis in her role as Washougal High School’s library media instructor. As such, she sees them when they’re at their best and she sees them at their worst. Lately, she’s seen more of the latter.
Hannah Schrager didn’t consider herself to be particularly “outdoorsy” when she was growing up, even though she thought at one point that she wanted to become a vegetable farmer. But now, every time she sees the leaf of a Trillium flower or trout lily delicately emerging from recently thawed ground in springtime, she experiences feelings of wonder and awe.
Washougal School District Facilities Director Jessica Beehner and her staff received an unwelcome Christmas gift this year.
The Washougal School District will likely have to eliminate all of its sports programs for the 2023-24 school year if voters knock down the district’s replacement levies in the April 23 special election.
