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Stories by Kelly Moyer

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October 25, 2019

Camas man killed in officer-involved shooting

The victim of a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred outside a police station in Hillsboro, Oregon, on Monday, has been identified as Jason Livengood, 39, of Camas.

October 24, 2019
Kayaking on the East Fork Lewis River from the John Pollock Water Trail Park in La Center toward Paradise Park State Park on Oct. 13. (Photos by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Blazing trails by kayak

Alifelong lover of lakes, rivers, oceans, pools and pretty much all things swimmable, I’ll admit I was overly excited last spring, when my partner, Andy, told me he wanted to go shopping for kayaks.

October 23, 2019

Serial complaint filer targets Camas

A Thurston County, Washington, man the Seattle Times once called a “serial filer of campaign-finance complaints aimed at Washington’s Democratic candidates and organizations” has extended his reach into Camas.

October 23, 2019
Camas Mayor Shannon Turk (left) and Camas City Councilor Melissa Smith (center) are pictured here with City Councilor Don Chaney (right) at a 2018 city council meeting. Smith recently announced her write-in candidacy to replace Turk as Camas' next mayor. (Post-Record file photo)

Council veteran jumps into mayoral race

The Camas mayoral race wasn’t expected to be a big deal this election season. In fact, Mayor Shannon Turk was running completely unopposed until just a few weeks ago, when whispers of write-in campaigns started to get louder.

October 23, 2019

Post-Record wins top honors in journalism contest

The Camas-Washougal Post-Record recently won a first-place General Excellence award for newspapers its size in Washington state at the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association (WNPA)’s 2019 Better Newspaper Contest. This was the second year in a row the newspaper has won this first-place honor.

October 10, 2019
Members and volunteers from a Villages NW group in Portland enjoy an outing. A newly formed Villages Clark County group seeks to help seniors age in place. (Contributed photo courtesy of Villages Clark County)

Nonprofit organizes volunteers to help seniors age in place

In Hillary Clinton’s book, “It Takes a Village,” the former Secretary of State is referring to an African proverb that says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” But the same could be said of helping seniors “age in place.”

October 10, 2019
Illustration by LSW Architects, courtesy of city of Camas 
 A design proposal shows what the Camas City Hall Annex building, located on Northeast Fourth Avenue, one block west of the main City Hall building in the former Bank of America space, will contain once renovations are complete. The Annex is expected to become a new permitting center for the city and also provide room for the Camas-Washougal Fire Marshal's office.

Camas OKs $1M to fix up City Hall

Camas city councilors on Monday approved a nearly $1 million contract for the renovation of the Camas City Hall lobby and the new City Hall Annex building.

October 9, 2019

Election season heats up

With a mayor’s race that now has two write-in candidates; a hotly debated $78 million community-aquatics center bond proposal; and several contested city council, school board and port commission seats headed to voters in the Nov. 5 general election, there is no shortage of political information flowing through Camas and Washougal this election season.