Camas-Washougal Post-Record

February 25, 2021

Emergency vehicles are parked outside the Camas-Washougal Fire Department Fire Station 41 in downtown Camas in May 2020. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Camas OKs creation of capital facilities plan for fire department

Camas City Council members agreed this month to move forward with the creation of a capital facilities plan for the Camas-Washougal Fire Department.

February 25, 2021

Camas School Board members (clockwise from upper left) Corey McEnry and Doug Quinn, board president Tracey Malone and board member Erika Cox discuss school reopenings at a Feb. 22, 2021, Camas school board meeting. The board members met in-person, with face coverings, at the school district offices, and the meeting was available via Zoom for members of the public. (Screenshot by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas school board pauses reopenings, gives staff time to transition

On Monday, Feb. 22, just one week before Camas elementary students were scheduled to return to full classrooms, four days a week, and high-schoolers would have entered a hybrid schedule with twice-weekly in-person classes, the Camas School Board agreed to pause the district’s school reopening rollout to give teachers, staff and families more time to adjust to the swift transitions.

February 18, 2021

Camas native and Earth Day founder Denis Hayes is pictured in the Bullitt Board Room of the Bullitt Center in Seattle. The building, which Hayes developed, opened on Earth Day in 2013 and is considered the most sustainable commercial office building in the world. Hayes will discuss creating

Creating ‘super green’ cities

A native son of Camas — Earth Day founder and internationally renowned environmental advocate Denis Hayes — will lead a discussion about building more sustainable communities at the Clark College Foundation’s virtual “Creating Super Green Cities” event on Tuesday, Feb. 23.

February 18, 2021