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February 17, 2022
Canyon Creek Middle School student Rylan Stalnaker shows his 3D design prototype is being piloted to help the Washougal School District's facilities and custodial departments with the hand sanitizer spillage. (Contributed photo courtesy of the Washougal School District)

Classroom skills blend with on-the-job learning

A new Washougal High School program is helping students earn school credits while connecting the things they’ve learned in their career and technical education classes with real-world work skills.

February 17, 2022
A "Black History Highlights of Southwest Washington" exhibit sits outside the Clark County Historical Museum in Vancouver in February 2022. (Contributed photo courtesy of the NAACP Vancouver)

‘Black History Highlights of Southwest Washington’ exhibit opens Feb. 18

The Vancouver National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 1139 and the Clark County Historical Museum (CCHM) will present a new outdoor exhibit, “Black History Highlights of Southwest Washington,” at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 18, at the museum, 1511 Main St., Vancouver.

February 10, 2022
A "No Drug Detox Next to Dorothy Fox" stands in Camas' Prune Hill neighborhood on March 16, 2021. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Judge rules against Dorothy Fox Safety Alliance

A Clark County Superior Court judge has ruled against the Dorothy Fox Safety Alliance in its land-use appeal against the city of Camas, paving the way for the Discover Recovery substance abuse treatment and recovery facility to operate in Camas’ Prune Hill neighborhood.

February 10, 2022
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Camas eyes zoning limits on drug rehabs

A proposal that would severely limit where drug and alcohol treatment and recovery centers – as well as transitional “sober living” homes – can operate in the city of Camas will soon make its way to the Camas City Council.

February 10, 2022
Doug Flanagan/Post-Record 
 Washougal resident Mike Amodeo lowers his boat into the Columbia River at Parker's Landing Marina on Jan. 25, 2022.

Port reverses controversial permit decision

In response to pleas from several marina users, Port of Camas-Washougal commissioners have voted to reinstate a popular permit program that offers an annual permit for people who regularly use the launch ramp at the Parker’s Landing Marina in Washougal.

February 10, 2022

Public meetings for week of Feb. 10-16, 2022

Camas City Council: The Council will hold its second day of its 2022 annual planning conference during a remote meeting at 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 11. For more information, visit cityofcamas.us/yourgovernment/minuteagendavideo.

February 3, 2022
Washougal students gather at Fishback Stadium on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, to protest a Washington state mandate requiring students to wear face coverings inside K-12 school buildings to help curb the spread of COVID-19. (Screenshot of video by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Washougal students protest state’s mask mandates

A group of Washougal students this week protested Washington state’s mask mandates for K-12 schools.  The students, who call themselves “Freedom Fighters of Washougal,” are being…

February 3, 2022
Several people who refused to follow public health rules regarding face coverings sit inside the Washougal School District's meeting room before a Washougal School Board meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. (Contributed photo courtesy of Wendi Moose)

Anti-maskers shut down Washougal School Board meeting

The Washougal School Board said it postponed a public meeting after multiple people in the audience refused to follow a state mandate requiring face coverings inside public school board meetings to help curb the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

February 3, 2022
"Option A" shows preliminary land-use concepts for the city of Camas' North Shore, including parks and open spaces (green), business park-light industrial (blue), commercial (red), higher- and lower-density residential (dark and light yellow) and mixed-use (brown). (Illustrations courtesy of the city of Camas)

Camas North Shore vision beginning to take shape

Preliminary land-use concepts for Camas’ North Shore show a mix of residential, commercial, mixed-use and business park-light industrial zones abutting a thick band of city-owned green space along the northern shores of Lacamas Lake.