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Stories by Kelly Moyer

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September 19, 2024
A variety of fireworks fill a table inside the Mean Gene Fireworks tent on Southeast Eighth Avenue in Camas, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Mortar fireworks ban in Camas now includes possession

Two weeks after voting 4-3 in favor of a mortar fireworks ban, Camas officials have added the word “possession” to the ordinance, effectively banning Camas residents from possessing aerial fireworks with reloadable shell kits that are more commonly referred to as “mortars.”

September 12, 2024
The front of Camas City Hall is pictured in August 2018. (Post-Record files)

Camas PFAS treatment, probe expands

Camas officials heard this month that ongoing efforts to evaluate the city’s water system for toxic “forever chemicals” and to design a treatment for Well 13, which has shown higher levels of the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), will be more involved than officials may have anticipated.

September 12, 2024
Washougal School District's interim superintendent, Aaron Hansen (right), swears in the Washougal School Board's newest member, Jane Long (left) during the Board's meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Contributed photo courtesy of the Washougal School District)

Washougal School Board appoints Hancock replacement

The Washougal School Board has appointed Jane Long, a human resources and business operations professional and mother of two Washougal elementary school students, to fill the Board seat vacated by Angela Hancock in June.

September 5, 2024
Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files 
 A variety of fireworks fill a table inside the Mean Gene Fireworks tent on Southeast Eighth Avenue in Camas, Tuesday, July 2, 2024.

Camas bans mortar fireworks

Camas officials have officially banned the sale, purchase and discharge of mortar-style fireworks.

September 5, 2024
Artists paint outdoors during the 2023 September First Friday “Plein Air” art event in Camas. This year’s “plein air” event will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, throughout downtown Camas, ahead of the 5 to 8 p.m. First Friday festivities. (Contributed photo courtesy of the Downtown Camas Association)

Art is in the air for Camas First Friday

Local artists will set up their easels in downtown Camas this Friday for the annual “plein air” art event that precedes the Downtown Camas Association’s (DCA) September First Friday festivities.