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November 12, 2020
Kindergarten teacher Marilyn Canfield leads students at Helen Baller Elementary School in Camas on Monday, Nov. 9, the first day of in-person kindergarten classes at the school district since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered classrooms throughout Clark County in March 2020. (Contributed photo by Doreen McKercher, courtesy of the Camas School District)

Local kindergarteners head back to school

Hundreds of Camas-Washougal kindergarten students experienced their classrooms for the first time this week, after leaders in both school districts OK’d the reopening of school buildings for their youngest learners.

November 5, 2020

Washougal School District to form equity committee

The Washougal School District will form a community-wide team to address equity, diversity and inclusion in the district and help eliminate inequities among students and staff members.

November 5, 2020

Port of Camas-Washougal nabs $3 million federal grant

The Port of Camas-Washougal recently learned that it will receive a $3 million federal grant to help construct a new, 50,000-square-foot industrial building at the Port’s Washougal-based industrial park.

November 5, 2020
Contributed photo courtesy Amara Farah
Washougal High School student Amara Farah sits at a "Piano Push Play" in Portland on June 28, 2019.

Washougal student honored for leadership, volunteer work

In 2014, Washougal resident Gina Farah took a “Guiding Good Choices” class through Unite! Washougal, and quickly became a valued member and passionate supporter of the community coalition, which works to support youth and promote healthy choices.

October 29, 2020
Washougal residents Eric Dodge (left) and Jason Dodge talk about a prize during one of their "Chubby Leprechaun" YouTube videos. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Washougal brothers give back

Jason Dodge died in his Washougal home during the early morning hours of May 6, 2013, but was brought back to life by Washougal police officers and an automated external defibrillator three minutes later. He awoke from a medically induced coma one week later, diagnosed with sudden cardiac death syndrome. He still has no recollection of what happened to him that night.