A Clark County Superior Court judge has ruled against the Dorothy Fox Safety Alliance in its land-use appeal against the city of Camas, paving the way for the Discover Recovery substance abuse treatment and recovery facility to operate in Camas’ Prune Hill neighborhood.
A proposal that would severely limit where drug and alcohol treatment and recovery centers – as well as transitional “sober living” homes – can operate in the city of Camas will soon make its way to the Camas City Council.
When Camas elementary school teacher Julie Savelesky says she’s a “groundhog ambassador,” she’s not hyperbolizing.
Preliminary land-use concepts for Camas’ North Shore show a mix of residential, commercial, mixed-use and business park-light industrial zones abutting a thick band of city-owned green space along the northern shores of Lacamas Lake.
The Camas City Council is poised to add another date to the city’s list of official, paid holidays.
The Camas City Council is expected to pass a resolution this month that would help protect the privacy of people who provide public comments during public city meetings.
The family of Ric Mason – better known to many locals as “Painless Ric,” the owner of Painless Ric’s Tattoo Parlor – will host a celebration of life for the longtime downtown Camas business owner from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, at the Black Pearl on the Columbia, 56 S. First St., Washougal.
Chuck and Janessa Stoltz, the owners of Camas’ unique, Lacamas Lake-adjacent Acorn & the Oak restaurant, had already weathered more than their fair share of hurdles when the city’s planning manager emailed another piece of bad news earlier this month: the city could not approve the couple’s plans to build a permanent cover over their back patio.
Camas-area residents eager to see environmental cleanup work being done at the Georgia-Pacific (GP) paper mill site will likely need to settle for “later rather than sooner.”
An independent investigator concluded this week that Camas High School students likely directed “some sort of inappropriate language” toward members of a visiting Portland basketball team in December 2021,…
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