kelly.moyer@camaspostrecord.com
May 14, 2021
City of Camas will seek interim mayor
Three days after Mayor Barry McDonnell resigned unexpectedly, Camas officials have started their search for an interim mayor to guide the city through the Nov. 2, 2021…
Three days after Mayor Barry McDonnell resigned unexpectedly, Camas officials have started their search for an interim mayor to guide the city through the Nov. 2, 2021…
More than 20 Camas-area residents — including the owner of a Washougal pediatric health clinic and several parents who have pulled their students out of public Camas schools — wrote letters and spoke at an in-person Camas School Board meeting on Monday, May 10, lambasting mask mandates and other COVID-19 safety measures; remote learning; racial justice and equity programs; and “woke agendas.”
One and a half years after the contentious “pool bond” election of November 2019, in which more than 90 percent of Camas voters shut down the city’s bid to build a $78 million public community-aquatics center and hundreds of Camas residents loudly complained in online forums of a perceived communications breakdown between city officials and the community, the city has launched Engage Camas, an online platform designed to be “an alternative to traditional public engagement.”
A little more than one year after winning a write-in campaign to lead the city of Camas, Mayor Barry McDonnell is stepping down and handing the reins to…
Gov. Jay Inslee this week approved an update to the guidance documents for spectator events and religious and faith based organizations that allows facilities to increase capacity by adding sections…
Camas-Washougal area voters will decide the fate of 15 open positions on city councils, school boards and other commissions this year, beginning with the primary election on Aug. 3.
The city of Gresham, Oregon, has not selected Camas City Administrator Jamal Fox to be its next city manager. Fox, who began his position in Camas eight months ago, was…
Camas Hearings Examiner Joe Turner has ruled in favor of granting a conditional-use permit to Discover Recovery, a substance-abuse treatment and recovery center hoping to operate in Camas’ mostly residential…
Dozens of Camas residents and public officials have urged the state’s Department of Ecology to look beyond the current heavy-industrial use at the Geogia-Pacific paper mill in downtown Camas and push for more restrictive cleanup standards.
Camas’ “Dancing Lady” knows the feeling of unbridled joy.
