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January 18, 2024
Children take advantage of newly fallen snow to sled down a hill behind Skyridge Elementary School in Camas, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Storms bring freezing wind, ice and snow to Camas-Washougal

Back-to-back winter storms, fueled by cold arctic air and wind speeds that reached over 50 miles per hour (mph) in the Columbia River Gorge, blanketed the Vancouver metro area in snow and ice this week, causing power outages, downed tree limbs and a wind-driven residential fire that damaged a home on Southeast Blair Road, north of Camas-Washougal.

January 18, 2024
Washougal School District maintenance supervisor Jessica Beehner (left) talks with superintendent Mary Templeton in Washougal High School's boiler room in 2023. (Post-Record file photo)

Washougal schools manager honored for conservation efforts

Jessica Beehner, the Washougal School District’s facilities, maintenance and grounds manager, is being honored by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)’s Columbia River chapter for her commitment to energy conservation and sustainability.

January 18, 2024
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4278 honors Scout Eldridge (fourth from left), a student at Gause Elementary School in Washougal, as a winner of the statewide Junior Essay Contest in January 2024. (Contributed photo courtesy of the Washougal School District)

Washougal students recognized by VFW for essays

  Washougal students recently earned recognition in three local Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) essay competitions. Veterans from VFW Post 4278 visited classrooms across the Washougal School District last month…

January 11, 2024
Discovery High School students (from left to right) Jax Goetzen, Angel Harp, Zimri Baxter and Hannah Cuffel-Leathers gather at a booth on the corner of Northeast Fourth Avenue and Northeast Cedar Street in downtown Camas during the Downtown Camas Association's First Friday event on April 7, 2023. The students are calling for the Camas School District to reconsider budget cuts that will impact their project-based learning high school. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas School Board hears update on district’s ‘choice schools’

It has been nine months since Camas students, staff and families flooded Camas School Board meetings in the spring of 2023 to support their unique “choice schools” in the wake of the district’s announced budget cuts and Discovery High School students participated in a planned walk-out the day before their 2022-23 spring break to protest the district’s plan to unify the project-based learning Discover High with the remote K-12 Camas Connect Academy (CCA).

January 11, 2024
Port of Camas-Washougal CEO David Ripp speaks at the Port's industrial park in Washougal, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Port of Camas-Washougal CEO to retire

Port of Camas-Washougal Chief Executive Officer David Ripp has announced he intends to retire in 2024, following a port management career that has spanned nearly three decades.