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August 15, 2024
A Camas mural painted on Northeast Fourth Avenue near Camas City Hall and the Camas Public Library is seen in downtown Camas, May 21, 2023. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Camas kicks off 2025-26 budget process; utility tax fight looms

The city of Camas kicked off its 2025-26 budget process this month with a bit of bad news: while the City’s general fund expenses have increased by $12.9 million in the four-year span between 2021 and 2025, the City’s general fund revenues did not keep pace, increasing by $5 million over the same time period.

August 15, 2024
Boy Scout Troop 562 scouts (left to right) Alex Sample, Harris Royer, Vance Gooch, Reece Sample and Mac Clark gather after receiving their Eagle Scout awards in Camas, Aug. 10, 2024. (Contributed photo courtesy of Lisa Sample)

‘A pretty big accomplishment’

Five members of Camas-based Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Troop 562 achieved the rank of Eagle Scout during a ceremony on Aug. 10 at the Camas Church of the Nazarene.

August 8, 2024

Washougal says PFAS levels in water system have decreased

Recent testing results show a “downward trend” in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) levels in Washougal’s drinking water, with levels down to two wells approaching the EPA’s adopted limit of…

August 8, 2024
Washougal resident Susan Fronckowiak will participate in her first art show at the 2024 Washougal Art and Music Festival, to be held Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Reflection Plaza. (Contributed photo courtesy Susan Fronckowiak)

Washougal Art and Music Festival returns Saturday

Susan Fronckowiak’s two young children enjoyed the playhouse their father built for them on the family’s rural Washougal property after they relocated to Clark County in the late 2000s, but naturally grew out of it as they got older.

August 8, 2024
Rachel Grice and her dog, Rusty, take a walk near Grice's Washougal home off Southeast 356th Avenue in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area in 2018. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

County denies mining company’s road proposal near ‘Washougal Pit’

The Clark County Council has unanimously approved a recommendation to deny a proposal from a Ridgefield-based mining company to redesignate a private residential road in rural Washougal as a public thoroughfare, delivering another blow to the company’s long-standing hopes of resuming mining activity in the area.