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May 8, 2025
Crowds gather at the Downtown Camas Association’s 2024 Camas Plant and Garden Fair in downtown Camas. This year’s fair, set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, will feature nearly 100 vendors selling a huge array of plants, flowers, vegetable starts and garden art. (Courtesy of the Downtown Camas Association)

Camas Plant & Garden Fair returns to downtown this Saturday

One of the Downtown Camas Association’s most popular springtime events, the 26th annual Camas Plant & Garden Fair, will fill downtown Camas streets with a huge array of plants, vegetable starts, fruit trees, flowers, planters, garden art, outdoor furniture and everything a person might need to spruce up their gardens this year.

May 8, 2025
Suzanne Grover displays her love of Washougal with a chalk drawing during the 2018 Washougal Art Festival. (Courtesy of Rene Carroll)

Mural to honor late Washougal city employee and her art

After Washougal artist Suzanne Grover died from lung cancer in May 2023 at the age of 53, Janice Ferguson wanted to do something to honor her longtime friend’s contributions to Washougal as an artist and longtime city employee.

May 8, 2025
The Columbia River snakes through the Columbia River Gorge, seen from the Cape Horn lookout in May. The Columbia River Gorge Commission oversees the national scenic area. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)

Gorge agency funding restored

When the Washington House and Senate stripped all funding for the Columbia River Gorge Commission from their proposed budgets during heated negotiations at the end of March, the future looked bleak for the bistate agency. But on Monday, the agency learned that its funding had been restored — or at least some of it.

May 1, 2025
Krista Bashaw, here at Falling Leaf Lake Park, is retiring after a 30-year career organizing special events for the Camas Parks and Recreation Department. (Taylor Balkom/The Columbian)

‘She will be sorely missed’

Ask any Camas resident what they love most about their city and the response is likely to include the city’s “hometown feel.”

May 1, 2025
Construction crews install playground equipment at Crown Park in Camas on Friday, April 25, 2025. City of Camas leaders hope to reopen parts of the historic park, including the new inclusive playground, to the public this summer. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Crown Park remodel makes progress

Construction is still in full swing at Camas’ historic Crown Park, but city leaders say the end of the extensive, $6.3 million park remodeling project is finally in sight.