Camas High School football coach Adam Mathieson was selected as the 2024 Seattle Seahawks’ High School Football Coach of the Year in early December. A few days later, on Dec. 7, Mathieson’s Papermakers saw their hopes of a perfect season dashed in a loss to Sumner High Spartans in the Class 4A state championship game at Husky Stadium in Seattle.
More than one and a half years after voters approved a capital projects and technology levy to help upgrade Washougal school buildings, the Washougal School District is moving forward with several facility improvement projects.
East County Fire and Rescue (ECFR)’s new chief has held firefighting jobs for almost 20 years, but he views himself as a teacher as much as anything else.
Before the first Empty Bowls Camas event in September 2024, event organizer Jamie St. Clair told Nancy Wilson, the director of the Inter-Faith Treasure House in Washougal, that she hoped to raise $2,000 for the nonprofit organization, which provides food assistance to local residents in need.
Camas School District leaders say they will take the results of a community-wide survey that captured input from nearly 1,000 respondents into account as they begin to prepare budget cut recommendations expected to slash the district’s general fund budget by at least 10% before the 2025-26 school year.
The city of Washougal has received a $3.4 million grant for a project to widen a portion of Shepherd Road, allowing for on-street parking, a shared-use path, traffic calming and drainage improvements, and improved access to the Sandy Swimming Hole.
The Camas Parks and Recreation Commission has rejected a series of possible remedies that could have helped soothe neighborhood complaints about loud noises coming from the shared-use tennis-pickleball courts at Crown Park.
Hundreds of visitors filled the streets of historic downtown Camas last week for the annual Hometown Holidays celebration, held Friday, Dec. 6.
A Washougal School Board member is calling for more transparency from Washougal School District (WSD) leaders, who he claimed failed to notify the Board in a timely manner about a financial warning the district received from the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI).
The Washougal School District (WSD) has launched its search for a permanent superintendent.
