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December 27, 2024
Yuletides of Yesteryear
With its beloved traditions, family get-togethers and new year celebrations, the winter holiday season provides a perfect time to reflect on the past and look forward to what is to come.
With its beloved traditions, family get-togethers and new year celebrations, the winter holiday season provides a perfect time to reflect on the past and look forward to what is to come.
As an employee at Round Table Pizza in Camas, Washougal High School senior Emily Bishop has learned about the challenges people facing homelessness struggle with on a daily basis.
The city councils of Camas and Washougal have passed a joint resolution to put the formation of a Regional Fire Authority (RFA) on the April 22, 2025, Special Election ballot.
C-TRAN offering free service, extended hours this New Year’s Eve
Camas High School football coach Adam Mathieson was selected as the 2024 Seattle Seahawks’ High School Football Coach of the Year in early December. A few days later, on Dec. 7, Mathieson’s Papermakers saw their hopes of a perfect season dashed in a loss to Sumner High Spartans in the Class 4A state championship game at Husky Stadium in Seattle.
More than one and a half years after voters approved a capital projects and technology levy to help upgrade Washougal school buildings, the Washougal School District is moving forward with several facility improvement projects.
East County Fire and Rescue (ECFR)’s new chief has held firefighting jobs for almost 20 years, but he views himself as a teacher as much as anything else.
Before the first Empty Bowls Camas event in September 2024, event organizer Jamie St. Clair told Nancy Wilson, the director of the Inter-Faith Treasure House in Washougal, that she hoped to raise $2,000 for the nonprofit organization, which provides food assistance to local residents in need.
Camas School District leaders say they will take the results of a community-wide survey that captured input from nearly 1,000 respondents into account as they begin to prepare budget cut recommendations expected to slash the district’s general fund budget by at least 10% before the 2025-26 school year.
The city of Washougal has received a $3.4 million grant for a project to widen a portion of Shepherd Road, allowing for on-street parking, a shared-use path, traffic calming and drainage improvements, and improved access to the Sandy Swimming Hole.