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October 10, 2024

Public meetings: Oct. 10-16, 2024

Camas School District: The Camas School Board will hold a workshop at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, at Zellerbach Administration Center, 841 N.E. 22nd Ave., Camas. The workshop also will be livestreamed, with video available on the district’s website. To send a written comment, email [email protected]. For more information, visit camas.wednet.edu/about-csd/school-board/meetings-minutes

October 10, 2024
Fifth-graders from Columbia River Gorge Elementary School help catalog flora and fauna at Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Washougal in September 2024.

Washougal students explore Steigerwald refuge

Even though the Columbia River Gorge Elementary School (CRGE) fifth-graders’ recent field trip took them just one mile from their school, it brought them to a completely different world, teeming with scenic landscapes and ecosystem diversity.

October 10, 2024
The city of Washougal’s homeowners association and neighbhorhood registry (above) displays an interactive map of Washougal and contact information of registered HOAs or neighborhoods (outlined in yellow, green and blue). (Screenshot by Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Washougal launches neighborhood registry

Sherry Montgomery recently conducted an unofficial count of the neighborhoods in Washougal as part of her latest project in her role as the city of Washougal’s community aesthetics program coordinator. She said that she was surprised when her count added up to about 200.

October 10, 2024
John Svilarich (left) and his lawyer, Vancouver defense attorney Jon McMullen (right) appear in Judge John Fairgrieve’s Clark County Superior Court courtroom on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (Screenshot by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Svilarich makes first appearance in Superior Court

Camas City Councilman John Svilarich, 66, who is facing second-degree felony assault and reckless endangerment charges stemming from an Aug. 31 argument with a fisherman along the Washougal River Greenway trail in Camas, made his first appearance in Clark County Superior Court Wednesday, Oct. 2.

October 10, 2024
People stand in line before the opening of the new Goodwill superstore in Washougal, Oct. 3, 2024. (Photos by Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Goodwill Bargain Hunting

Washougal’s newest business is bringing a bit of goodwill — figuratively and literally — to East Clark County.

October 3, 2024
A sign welcomes visitors to Skyridge Middle School in Camas on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Washougal man arrested for unsafe gun storage

Camas police have referred an 11-year-old boy to Clark County’s juvenile prosecuting attorney following an incident involving “multiple firearms and a knife” outside Skyridge Middle School Tuesday, Sept. 24.

October 3, 2024
A poster on a wall at Jemtegaard Middle School in Washougal thanks students for keeping their cell phones off and in their backpacks during classtime. (Contributed photo courtesy of Washougal School District)

WSD: No sudden changes to cell phone policy

Washougal School District (WSD) leaders say they will focus on enforcing the district’s existing cell-phone policy rather than make any sudden changes, such as banning students from having cell phones available to them during the school day.

October 3, 2024
Camas residents Dawn (right) and John Hendricks, of Camas, play pickleball on a shared-use tennis-pickleball court at Crown Park in Camas,  Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Crown Park neighbors frustrated by ‘really loud’ pickleball courts

Following a flood of noise and livability complaints from residents who live near Crown Park’s shared-use tennis-pickleball courts, Camas city officials and parks commissioners are rethinking how they might accommodate pickleball, one of the nation’s fastest growing sports.