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October 19, 2017
Camas City Councilman Tim Hazen sits behind the council table for the last time on Monday, Oct. 16. Hazen, who was in the middle of his second term on the council, announced his surprise resignation at Monday night's city council meeting.

Camas councilor quits abruptly

Halfway through his second term on the Camas City Council, Tim Hazen unexpectedly resigned his council seat Monday, saying he wanted to devote more time to work.

October 19, 2017

District, classified workers head to mediation

Washougal School District and its classified employees have hit a stumbling block in their contract negotiations and will soon enter into mediation. “We’ve met 12 times and can’t come to…

October 12, 2017
Brandon Pasa (left) and his 10-year-old daughter, Savannah (right), promote Hidden River Roasters, the company Pasa co-founded with Aaron Baldwin (not pictured), outside Pasa’s Columbia Chiropractic & Massage business during the Oct. 6 Camas First Friday event. The coffee roastery will soon have its own downtown Camas location when it moves into the former B&B Fish Market at 536 N.E. Fifth Ave.

Craft coffee comes to Camas

It started innocently enough: just two guys talking about their shared love of really, really good coffee. But then one thing led to another. There were trips to Mr. Green…

October 12, 2017

Educators vie for school board seat

Of the three Washougal School Board positions voters will see on the Nov. 7, 2017 General Election ballot, only one, the district three seat, is contested. Board member Cory Chase…

October 12, 2017
Families gather at the Washougal Harvest Festival in 2016. Contributed photo

A hauntingly good harvest time

We’ve had a few rainy days this fall but, so far, October is shaping up to be one of those wonderfully crisp, sunny months that are perfect for harvest festivals…

October 5, 2017
Vancouver novelist and artist Gary Watson at his home studio in late September, prepares for his upcoming art show at the Second Story Gallery, above the Camas Library at 625 N.E. Fourth Ave. The show runs Oct. 6-28. Here, Watson shows his painting of "Mara," an African elephant featured in his last novel, Mercy in Masquerade. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Art meets advocacy

An upcoming October show at Camas’ Second Story Gallery, which kicks off tomorrow with a Camas First Friday reception, will focus on more than just beautiful artwork.

October 5, 2017
The Camas City Council listens to city staff during an Oct. 2 meeting at Camas City Hall. The councilors voted 5-2 in favor of accepting a new salary schedule for non-represented city employees at the Monday night meeting.

Camas OKs new salary scales

Camas City Council members on Monday voted 5-2 to adopt a somewhat contentious set of salary scales for the city’s “non-represented” employees — those who are not part of a union or represented by a collective bargaining agreement.

October 5, 2017
Lesa Sims, a retired youth pastor from the Camas Church of the Nazarene, holds a brochure advertising her church's upcoming informational seminar on human trafficking. The free seminar is designed to educate the public about global, regional and local human trafficking, and teach people how to help prevent sexual and labor exploitation in their own communities.

Forum: ‘Are more slaves now than ever’

Dozens of Camas-Washougal community members turned out Sunday night to learn more about the pervasive but often-hidden issue of human trafficking. Lesa Sims, a former youth pastor at the Camas…

September 28, 2017

State denies coal permit

The Washington Department of Ecology has thrown a wrench into Millennium Bulk Terminals’ hopes of building the largest coal export terminal in North America, possibly killing a plan that would add 16 slow-moving, 1.3-mile-long coal trains to Camas-Washougal rail lines each day.