Subscribe

Latest News

April 8, 2021
Washogual High School junior Aidan Davis-Cosmo holds a trophy after participating on the school's Unified teams which took first and third place their division at the Special Olympics Washington's Virtual Winter Games e-gaming competition. (Contributed photo courtesy Washougal School District)

Washougal Unified teams place at esports tournament

Special Olympics Washington cancelled all Unified high school sports during the 2020-21 school year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the group encouraged schools to participate in its “Virtual Winter Games,” which included a wellness cup, a fitness heptathlon and an esports tournament.

April 8, 2021
Camas School District Superintendent Jeff Snell (left) speaks to Doug Hood, the district's director of elementary education, after a Camas school board meeting on April 1, 2021. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas names interim schools head

The Camas School Board voted unanimously on Thursday, April 1, to appoint Doug Hood, the district’s director of elementary education, as the district’s interim superintendent for the 2021-22 school year.

April 8, 2021
Brittni Nester, a preschool teacher at Gause Elementary School, watches student Madisyn Deaver work on a project in November 2020. (Contributed photo courtesy of Washougal School District)

New 3-foot rule gives local schools reopening leeway

School district leaders in Camas and Washougal say a new COVID-19 social distancing guideline inside school classrooms will allow local elementary, middle and high schools the ability to ramp up in-person learning.

April 1, 2021
Camas School District Superintendent Jeff Snell (left) talks to the district's director of elementary education, Doug Hood (right) after a special Camas School Board meeting held Thursday, April 1, 2021. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas school board names interim superintendent

The Camas School Board voted unanimously Thursday evening to appoint Doug Hood, the district’s director of elementary education, as its interim superintendent for the 2021-22 school year.

April 1, 2021
A "No Drug Detox Next to Dorothy Fox" sign points to the site of Fairgrate Estates in Camas' Prune Hill neighborhood, where Discover Recovery hopes to open a 15-bed, inpatient drug treatment and recovery center, on March 16, 2021. (Post-Record file photo)

Prune Hill drug detox center decision pending

Camas Hearings Examiner Joe Turner will rule by the end of this month on a conditional-use permit that would allow a substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation center to operate in Camas’ mostly residential Prune Hill neighborhood.

April 1, 2021

Public meetings for the week of April 1-8, 2021

Camas School District: The Camas School Board will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1, to discuss a new 3-foot social distancing guideline and update the community about the district’s search for a new superintendent. To attend the meeting in-person, call Gail Gast at 360-833-5412. All people inside the board room must wear face coverings. The board room, at 841 N.E. 22nd Ave., Camas, has limited seating available and can accommodate 20 community members. There will not be any citizen comments at this special meeting. To join the virtual webinar, visit camas-wednet-edu.zoom.us/j/83474323807 at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1.