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May 30, 2024
Camas Police Chief Tina Jones (right) presents an award to Camas police officer Casey Handley, the police department's 2023 Sworn Staff Member of the Year, during the inaugural Camas Police Department Awards Ceremony, held at the Grace Foursquare Church in Camas, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas police honored at inaugural awards ceremony

The stories shared during the Camas Police Department’s inaugural awards ceremony on Thursday, May 25, showed a wide range of brave and heroic acts — running toward a burning vehicle to help save its occupants; rushing alone into a middle school to confront an armed student trying to access a locked classroom; talking suicidal people off roofs and bridges; performing life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); chasing down sexual assault suspects; and cracking open a decade-long elder-abuse case.

May 30, 2024
The Port of Camas-Washougal has named its top three chief executive officer (CEO) finalists: (clockwise from upper right) Port of Columbia County Director Guy Glenn, Washington Public Ports Association Deputy Director Chris Herman, and Camas Parks and Recreation Director Trang Lam. The Port's current CEO, David Ripp, plans to retire in the fall of 2024. (Photos courtesy of the Port of Camas-Washougal)

Port names top three CEO finalists

The Port of Camas-Washougal has named its top three finalists in the search to replace its retiring chief executive officer (CEO) David Ripp.

May 30, 2024

Public meetings: May 30-June 5, 2024

Camas City Council: The Council will hold a workshop at 4:30 p.m. and regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, June 3, at Camas City Hall, 616 N.E. Fourth Ave., Camas, and online via Zoom. For more information, including remote log-in details, visit cityofcamas.us/yourgovernment/minuteagendavideo and click on the agendas for the June 3 workshop and meeting.

May 23, 2024
The setback levees constructed during the Steigerwald Reconnection Project between 2020 and 2021, kept water from flooding Port of Camas-Washougal property in 2022. (Contributed photo courtesy of the Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership)

Port, federal agency mull land swap near Steigerwald

The Port of Camas-Washougal is negotiating a land-swap transaction with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFW) that would expand the Port’s inventory of usable, and possibly developable, land near the Steigerwald refuge.