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Stories by Kelly Moyer

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January 4, 2018
Italian artist Maria Grazia Repetto (left) discusses her artwork, painted on round canvasses she found in the Southwestern United States, with Camas Gallery co-owner Marquita Call (right) on Friday, Dec. 29. The gallery is featuring Repetto's art throughout the month of January, and will host an art reception during First Friday, from 5 to 8 p.m., Jan. 5.

Italian inspiration

When Maria Grazia Repetto moved from her native Italy to the Pacific Northwest in 1995, she immediately fell in love with eastern Washington’s cowboy-country charm and Seattle’s moody, rain-soaked landscapes.

December 21, 2017
School bus drivers in the Washougal School District are among the hundreds of classified employees who will get a 5-percent salary bump.

School district, employees OK contract

More than one month after going into mediation over contract bargaining conflicts, the Washougal School District and its classified employees have come to an agreement.

December 21, 2017
Phlebotomists Jake Cole (left) and Leah Hauge (right) with Bloodworks Northwest, handle donated blood on Monday, Dec. 18, at the Camas Public Library. The two Bloodworks Northwest employees said donors are needed this week and throughout the holidays to help replenish blood supplies after a fatal train crash north of Olympia killed three people and sent more than 70 passengers to regional hospitals.

DONORS NEEDED NOW

Local blood banks sent out an urgent appeal for donors this week, after an Amtrak passenger train derailed off an Interstate 5 overpass between Tacoma and Olympia Monday morning, killing three people and injuring more than 70 others.

December 21, 2017
Chris Marlahan (left) and Michelle Marlahan (right), of Washougal, look through binoculars to see wintering waterfowl inside the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday, Dec. 13. The gate near the couple leads to a spur trail, which is closed from Oct. 1 to May 1 to help protect the wintering wildlife from human interaction.

Walking in Washougal’s Winter Wonderland

It’s one of the coldest days of the year, but the sun is radiant and the air invigorating — and we all know that the never-ending rains are coming our way — so it’s not too surprising to see a few cars parked at the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge, just outside Washougal’s eastern city limits, off Highway 14.

December 14, 2017

Delivery driver assaulted in attempted robbery

Police say a delivery driver who had pulled off of Washougal River Road near milepost 7.5 this afternoon to arrange items in his vehicle was the victim of an assault…

December 14, 2017
Washougal school bus drivers, seen here pulling into the district's new transportation facility in May, are among the hundreds of classified employees at the Washougal School District who will soon get a 5-percent salary bump, thanks to a new two-year contract approved by the school district this week and ratified by employees in November. (Post-Record file photo)

Washougal school employees, district reach agreement

After working more than three months without a contract, classified employees in the Washougal School District have ratified a two-year contract. The 2017-2019 contract, approved by the district this week…

December 14, 2017
Worshipful Master Art Liss, head of the North Bank No. 182 Masonic Lodge in Washougal, points to the cornerstone of the historic lodge, located at 888 Washougal River Road, Washougal.

‘Secret Society’ to unlock doors

With a member list that reads like a textbook of the world’s most powerful men — including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, J. Edgar Hoover, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Winston Churchill, Jesse Jackson, Salvador Allende, John Wayne, Shaquille O’Neal and all of the Ringling brothers — a 500-year history shrouded in secrecy and “door keepers,” who literally guard two sets of doors to ensure no interlopers pass into the inner sanctum of the masonic lodge, it’s little wonder conspiracy theories envelop the world of the freemasons.