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March 11, 2021
Silver Star Search and Rescue volunteers train for a wilderness rescue near Camas' Round Lake in 2015. (Post-Record file photo)

Washougal search-and-rescue group seeks new headquarters

Silver Star Search and Rescue is conducting a new search — this time, though, instead of finding missing hikers in the wilderness or lost children in the city, the Washougal-based search and rescue operation is looking for a new home.

March 11, 2021
Washougal High School seniors Chase Baldwin (left) and Oliver Evers lead the 2020-21 Washougal boys golf team. Baldwin and Evers both qualified for the 2A state tournament in 2020, which was ultimately canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Washougal golfers lead Panthers to championship match

In the fall of 2019, Washougal High School golfers Trevor Evers and Chase Baldwin qualified for the 2020 2A state tournament. which was scheduled for May but eventually canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 4, 2021
Washougal High School senior Lauren Snedeker (7), a Seattle Pacific University commit, is a midfielder -- and top scorer -- for the Washougal Panthers' girls soccer team. (Post-Record file photo)

Ready to compete: more spring sports return as COVID-19 rates drop

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned fall sports into winter-and-early-spring sports for most Washington high schools, including Camas and Washougal, where athletes and coaches have returned to their softball diamonds, volleyball courts and soccer pitches with great enthusiasm.

March 4, 2021
Tonya Wright/Nest & Love Photography 
 Washougal resident Taylor Aube doesn't have a particular sense of style, according to her friend, Tonya Wright. "I think she just likes to be comfortable," Wright said. "She can pull anything off."

Washougal woman makes mark on social media

Taylor Aube had an epiphany as she walked through the meatpacking district of Manhattan in New York City one night several years ago on her way to take photographs at a fashion show featuring the work of Jeremy Scott, one of the world’s most well-known designers.

February 25, 2021
Washougal residents Andy and Heidi Dryden take a photo with their children Eli and Johnny at Big Bend National Park in southern Texas. (Contributed photo courtesy Heidi Dryden)

Washougal family makes most of pandemic, hits the road

Washougal resident Andy Dryden started talking with his wife, Heidi, about embarking on a cross-country road trip last summer after he learned that he would be working remotely and their two young sons would be learning remotely in the fall because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

February 25, 2021
Washougal Mayor Molly Coston holds an "ark" charity box. The city of Washougal recenlty purchased 100 boxes from ARK Clark County, a Vancouver-based grassroots effort to spread "random acts of kindness." (Contributed photo courtesy of Rose Jewell/city of Washougal)

Washougal will distribute charitable-giving ‘arks’

In December 2020, the Vancouver-based Chabad Jewish Center of Clark County launched the ARK Clark County campaign, selling piggy bank-like plastic boxes in an effort to encourage community members to give to people or organizations in need.