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Stories by Kelly Moyer

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April 14, 2023
Brad Richardson (right), the executive director of the Clark County Historical Museum, leads a walking history tour throughtout downtown Camas during the Downtown Camas Association's

Camas history comes alive during First Friday

Camas history came alive during the Downtown Camas Association’s “Spring into History” First Friday event, held Friday, April 7, throughout downtown Camas. Historian Virginia Warren was on hand at Caffe…

April 13, 2023
Discovery High School students (from left to right) Jax Goetzen, Angel Harp, Zimri Baxter and Hannah Cuffel-Leathers gather at a booth on the corner of Northeast Fourth Avenue and Northeast Cedar Street in downtown Camas during the Downtown Camas Association's First Friday event on April 7, 2023. The students are calling for the Camas School District to reconsider budget cuts that will impact their project-based learning high school. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Discovery High students react to district’s budget cuts

Camas School District leaders sounded the alarm in 2022, and tried to warn the community that the district’s lower enrollment rates, combined with less money from the state, would force budget cuts in 2023-24, but the news still came as a shock for those most affected by the district’s $6 million cuts.

April 13, 2023
The Camas community garden, located at 726 N.E. Fifth Ave., in downtown Camas, is pictured in June 2022. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Camas community garden plots available

Interested in growing your own food but don’t have the space or tools available at your own Camas-area home? The Camas community garden is now accepting applications for the 2023 growing season.

April 6, 2023
The front of Camas City Hall is pictured in August 2018. (Post-Record files)

‘Fix Camas’ petition deemed insufficient

Clark County elections officials say the Fix Camas group spearheading a referendum petition to send the city of Camas’ new 2% utility tax to voters did not collect the required number of valid signatures.

April 6, 2023
Caroline Mercury (right), chair of the Citizen Advisory Group tasked with updating the public about the Georgia-Pacific paper mill cleanup, talks to community members at a downtown Camas event on May 22, 2022. (Contributed photo courtesy of the Downtown Camas Association)

Mill cleanup group sets sights on education, goes out for second grant

Members of a community advisory group that acts as a conduit between the public and the ongoing environmental cleanup work at Georgia-Pacific paper mill in downtown Camas say they hope to receive a second public participation grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology.

March 30, 2023
Skyridge Middle School teacher Michael Sanchez, vice president of the Camas Education Association union representing Camas School District educators, speaks to Camas School Board members about the district's plan to cut $6 million from its 2023-24 budget, during a school board meeting held Monday, March 27, 2023, at the school district's administration offices. (Screenshot by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

CSD begins budget cut notifications

Camas School District administrators this week began reaching out to staff members who will likely be impacted by the district’s looming budget cuts.