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December 4, 2025

Councilors sworn into office

Camas and Washougal city councilors were sworn into office during council meetings on Dec. 2. In Camas, incumbent Martin Elzingre, who ran unopposed, took the oath of office. In Washougal,…

December 4, 2025
Crews sort recyclables at West Van Material Recovery Center in November 2023. The state’s ban on single-use plastic bags appears to be having little impact on reducing plastic coming into landfills and recycling centers. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)

Cost of plastic bags to rise 4 cents

Shoppers in Washington will soon begin paying 4 cents more per plastic bag at grocery stores and other retailers. The price for plastic bags will increase to 12 cents a bag, plus tax, on Jan. 1, but the bags themselves won’t be any thicker.

December 4, 2025

Colleagues, friends remember Coston

The Washougal City Council honored the legacy of former mayor Molly Coston, who died on Nov. 18 at 77, at its Dec. 1 meeting. Coston served as a Washougal…

December 4, 2025
Veterinary students and scientists look over elk hooves recovered from a harvested elk. Research continues in an attempt to understand how Treponema Associated Hoof Disease infects elk in the wild. (WSU College of Veterinary Medicine)

Discovering the ‘how’ in elk hoof disease

Dr. Margaret Wild, the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine scientist heading up the effort to study hoof disease in elk, will soon be retiring.

November 26, 2025
Black Drongo Brewery co-founders Devin Nail, left, and Tim Smith pose for a photo at their Yilan City, Taiwan, brewery. (Contributed by Black Drongo Brewery)

Camas graduates brew up success in Taiwan

Tim Smith and Devin Nail have known each other since the late 1990s when they became tomodachi (friends) in a Camas High School Japanese class. As adults, they both got into the Portland beer scene and started homebrewing in 2004. They eventually reunited in Taiwan. Nail moved to the Asian island in 2008, followed by Smith in 2010. There, they began brewing once again, motivated by their new country’s relative lack of quality craft brews.