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January 30, 2020
Camas officials meet for the Camas City Council's annual planning retreat on Friday, Jan. 24, at Lacamas Lake Lodge. Pictured from left to right (around the table) are Camas School District Superintendent and planning retreat mediator Jeff Snell, Camas Mayor Barry McDonnell and Council members Ellen Burton, Bonnie Carter, Shannon Roberts, Steve Hogan, Melissa Smith and Greg Anderson. Audience members seated to the left of city officials included Camas Police Chief Mitch Lackey (back row, far left). (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Officials reflect on failed $78 million community-aquatics center bond

Camas City Council members and Camas Mayor Barry McDonnell reflected this week on lessons they learned from the November 2019 general election, when a clear majority (90 percent) of voters shut down the city’s proposed $78 million community-aquatics center construction bond.

January 23, 2020
Former Camas mayors Dean Dossett (left), Nan Henriksen (center) and Paul Dennis (right) attend a dedication ceremony for the Washougal River Greenway Trail in 2010. Dossett, who served as Camas' mayor from 1992 to 2002, died at the age of 77 on Jan. 18. (Post-Record file photo)

Former Camas mayor Dossett dies

A former Camas mayor and city councilman is being remembered this week for his dedication to the community he led during most of the 1990s.

January 23, 2020
Sen. Ann Rivers

Rivers opposes three environmental protection bills

Less than two weeks into the Washington State Legislature’s 60-day 2020 session, which runs from Jan. 13 to March 12. Senator Ann Rivers, the Republican representing Camas-Washougal voters in the state’s 18th Legislative District, has voted “no” on three environmental protection bills.

January 16, 2020
Octavio Gutierrez, an associate with Mahlum Architects, shows an illustration of the future Joyce Garver Theater lobby to the Camas school board on Monday, Jan. 13. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Stage set for Camas’ Garver Theater revamp

One of the final pieces of the $119 million construction bond passed by Camas School District voters in February 2016 — the renovation of the historic Joyce Garver Theater — is set to begin this spring.

January 9, 2020
State Senator Ann Rivers (standing, right) a Republican representing Washington's 18th Legislative District, speaks to consituents at a town hall held Saturday, Jan. 4, at the Port of Camas-Washougal headquarters in Washougal. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

GOP legislators pack port building

A standing-room-only crowd greeted lawmakers from Washington’s 18th Legislative District at a Saturday morning town hall held inside the Port of Camas-Washougal’s headquarters.

January 9, 2020

Camas to hire spokesperson

Camas city leaders are preparing to move ahead with the hiring of a communications manager.