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April 6, 2023
Washougal School District Director of Teaching and Learning Tracey MacLachlan (center) talks to attendees at the school district's "listening tour," held Tuesday, March 28, 2023, at Washougal High School. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Washougal School District launches listening tours ahead of levy vote

After the Washougal School District’s replacement educational programs and operations and technology and capital projects levy proposals failed in February, district leaders knew that they had to revamp their communication process and engage in “straight talk,” in the words of WSD Superintendent Mary Templeton, if they hoped to convince enough community members to vote for the measures on Tuesday, April 25.

April 6, 2023
The front of Camas City Hall is pictured in August 2018. (Post-Record files)

‘Fix Camas’ petition deemed insufficient

Clark County elections officials say the Fix Camas group spearheading a referendum petition to send the city of Camas’ new 2% utility tax to voters did not collect the required number of valid signatures.

April 6, 2023
Caroline Mercury (right), chair of the Citizen Advisory Group tasked with updating the public about the Georgia-Pacific paper mill cleanup, talks to community members at a downtown Camas event on May 22, 2022. (Contributed photo courtesy of the Downtown Camas Association)

Mill cleanup group sets sights on education, goes out for second grant

Members of a community advisory group that acts as a conduit between the public and the ongoing environmental cleanup work at Georgia-Pacific paper mill in downtown Camas say they hope to receive a second public participation grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology.

April 6, 2023
Port of Camas-Washougal Commissioner Cassi Marshall cleans a section of garden at Parker's Landing Historic Park in 2023. (Contributed photos courtesy of Parkersville National Historic Site Advisory Committee)

Parker’s Landing cleanups set

The Parkersville National Historic Site Advisory Committee (PAC) will host “park cleanup” sessions at Parker’s Landing Historical Park in Washougal from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, and Tuesday, May 16, in preparation for the second annual Parkersville Day event.

April 6, 2023

Public meetings for April 6-12, 2023

Camas School District: The Camas School Board will hold a workshop at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 10, 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-b oard/meetings-minutes