Camas-Washougal Post-Record

January 26, 2023

A welcome sign greets visitors at the Camas School District's headquarters Aug. 24, 2021. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

CSD kicks off 2023-24 budget process

The Camas School District (CSD) kicked off its 2023-24 budget process this month, but CSD Director of Business Services Jasen McEathron told Camas School Board members on Monday, Jan. 23, that a plan to hold cost growth to 2% may be tough amid historic inflation,

January 19, 2023

Enspire Arts' 2022-23 arts ambassadors and scholarship recipients (from left to right) Jacob Crabtree, Bianca Flores and Keilene Brown gather for rehearsal on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Lightfoot, Enspire Arts)

Camas nonprofit to celebrate student arts ambassadors at Feb. 4 benefit concert

“The arts can have a tremendous impact on the world around us,” said Camas piano teacher Sarah Lightfoot.

January 19, 2023

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

Camas to revisit utility tax

Less than two months after passing a 2% utility tax on the city’s water, stormwater, sewer and garbage utilities, the Camas City Council has voted to revisit the issue in the near future.

January 12, 2023

Ken Shold, of Washougal, who will turn 100 on Jan. 23, 2023, is pictured throughout his life (clockwise from upper left): in basic training for the United States Army in 1942; at his home in Washougal in January 2023; as an infant with his mother, father, three brothers, sister and the family dog in Port Townsend, Wash., in 1923; during his first trip to Alaska at the age of 18, in 1941; and at the Camas pulp and paper mill, where he worked as a superintendent for more than three decades, in the 1960s. (Photos courtesy of Gayle Ann Jarvie)

‘Good genes and good luck’: Washougal’s Ken Shold shares secrets to long, happy life ahead of 100th birthday

Good genes and good luck. If there’s a secret to living a long, happy life, says Washougal resident Ken Shold, those two things are definitely involved.

January 12, 2023

Washougal City Manager David Scott (right screen) tells Camas Mayor Steve Hogan (center, left screen), Camas City Council members and Camas' interim city administrator, Jeff Swanson (right, left screen) during a Jan. 3, 2023, Camas City Council workshop that city of Washougal officials are in favor of signing a contract with a public relations firm to help the Camas-Washougal Fire Department before sending a fire facilities bond and emergency medical services levy renewals to voters later this year. (Screenshot by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas mulls hiring PR firm ahead of Camas-Washougal Fire Department bond, levy renewals

The Camas City Council is considering hiring a public relations firm to help the Camas-Washougal Fire Department work on messaging and public education ahead of a fire facilities bond and emergency medical services (EMS) levy renewals that could come before Camas-Washougal voters later this year.

January 5, 2023

Top: An American flag flies at half-staff outside the Camas Public Library on April 19, 2018. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)
Bottom: The Camas library is pictured in 1940. (Contributed photo courtesy of Camas Public Library)

A Century in the Books: Camas library to celebrate centennial

The Camas Public Library will kick off a yearlong celebration this week, with the first of many 2023 events honoring the library’s 100th birthday.

January 5, 2023

Photos show the impacts of the October 2022 Nakia Creek wildfire on trees located in the city of Camas' Boulder Creek and Jones Creek watershed on the south side of Larch Mountain. (Contributed photo courtesy of the city of Camas)

Camas OKs harvesting fire-damaged trees, replanting area

Camas city officials learned this week that the city is still feeling the impacts of the Nakia Creek wildfire, which burned more than 1,900 acres near Larch Mountain northeast of Camas-Washougal in October 2022, and forced “go now” evacuations for thousands of Camas-Washougal area residents.

January 5, 2023

Mount Pleasant School second/third-grade teacher Cara Ramsey helps students Ole Stiles, McKinley Williams, Lilly Blaisdell and Audrey Morales with a science project Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record files)

Mt. Pleasant School closed due to ‘substantial water leak’

The Mt. Pleasant School in east Washougal is closed today and undergoing emergency repairs for what Principal Cathy Lehman described in a letter to Mt. Pleasant families sent…

December 29, 2022

Clockwise from upper right: The American Empress riverboat docks at Parker’s Landing Marina in Washougal for the first time June 8, 2022. (Post-Record files); YBA Architects’ new renderings of the Hyas Point waterfront development project show the first phase of construction, which will include four mixed-use buildings and several streets and get under way in 2023. (Contributed graphic courtesy of the Port of Camas-Washougal); Vehicles carrying Camas School District students and staff line up at the school district’s COVID-testing site at Doc Harris Stadium Jan. 18, 2022. (Contributed photo courtesy of the Camas School District); Camas Police Chief Mitch Lackey (right) and the city’s finance director, Cathy Huber Nickerson, attend the 2022 Camas State of the Community on Sept. 15, 2022. (Post-Record files); and Democratic candidate for Washington's 3rd Congressional District Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, right, looks skyward while Republican candidate Joe Kent gives his closing remarks on Saturday during a debate at the Vancouver Community Library. (Contributed photo by Taylor Balkom, courtesy of The Columbian files)

Camas city, school leaders mull 2023 legislative priorities

Camas city and school district leaders are in the process of nailing down their list of legislative priorities they hope state legislators from the newly redrawn 17th District will fight for during the 2023 Washington State Legislative session.