Camas School Board bumps up levy rate
Camas School District
Camas School District
Several downtown Camas businesses are gearing up for the annual “Little Box Friday” and “Shop Small Saturday” shopping events that follow the Thanksgiving holiday and kick-off the winter holiday season of gift-giving.
Starbucks, the iconic Seattle coffee chain, prides itself on offering customers a consistent, almost identical cafe experience no matter where they might be ordering their latte or iced mocha.
When most people think of solar-powered homes, they envision solar panels affixed to a flat roof or sitting in rows in a field.
Landscaping plans for the future traffic roundabout at Lake Road and Everett Street in Camas received head nods of approval from Camas City Council members this week, after staff pared down the original landscaping ideas.
Camas City Council members Monday night unanimously agreed to raise the amount of money the city can levy from property taxes by 1 percent, the maximum annual increase allowed by state law.
It has been more than six years since Camas City Council members approved an agreement designed to guide future development of the city’s “North Shore,” an 800-acre swath of land that extends from Lacamas Lake to Camas’ northern city limits and has long been touted for its potential to house Camas’ burgeoning population, provide parks and open spaces for future generations and build the city’s inventory of commercial and industrial land.
There are only seven weeks left in 2019, which means the holiday gift-giving season is rapidly sneaking up on us.
“Get around to it” piles happen to the best of us. These are the boxes and bags we keep in our garages, basements and attics that are filled with broken necklaces we meant to repair, dull knives we meant to sharpen and antique gadgets we meant to take to an expert to see if they’re worth keeping.
One of two last-minute write-in candidates has won the Camas mayoral race. As of today’s vote count, write-in candidate Barry McDonnell had garnered 53 percent of…