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February 23, 2023

Speaker Series to highlight League of Women Voters

The Clark County Historical Museum continues its 2023 Speaker Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 2, with “Defending Democracy: Founding of League of Women Voters in Clark County,” at the…

February 23, 2023
Jennifer Senescu (right) answers questions during a Camas City Council interview at Camas City Hall on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. (Screenshot by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas Council fills vacant Ward 3 seat

The Camas City Council has appointed Camas-Washougal Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jennifer Senescu to fill former Councilman Greg Anderson’s vacant Ward 3 Council seat.

February 23, 2023

Public meetings, Feb. 23 through March 1, 2023

Camas School District: The Camas School Board will hold a regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, in the Dennison Board Room of the Zellerbach Administration Center, 841 N.E. 22nd Ave., Camas. The workshop also will be livestreamed, with video available on the district’s website. To send a written comment, email [email protected]. For more information, visit camas.wednet.edu/about-csd/school-board/meetings-minutes

February 23, 2023
Ron Chant (left) and Outlaw Country Radio disc jockey Sam Morris stand outside the Washougal Times on Jan. 23, 2023. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Washougal songwriter’s dream comes true

Ron Chant fell in love with country music as a boy growing up on a dairy farm in New Mexico, where he would sit in front of a small radio in his parents’ barn on Saturday nights to catch the latest songs from Johnny Horton, the Kershaw Brothers, a young Elvis Presley and many more on the famed Louisiana Hayride Show.

February 16, 2023
Stephanie "Sam" Westby, center, hugs her attorney Steve Thayer while her other attorney, Jacy Thayer, right, looks on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 9, 2023, in Clark County Superior Court. A judge acquitted her of second-degree murder and first-degree assault charges in the September 2019 fatal shooting of her husband. (Contributed photo by Becca Robbins, courtesy of The Columbian)

Camas woman acquitted in fatal shooting of husband

Stephanie “Sam” Westby sobbed as she embraced friends and family Thursday after a judge acquitted her of murder and assault charges in the September 2019 fatal shooting of her husband at their Camas home.