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November 22, 2011

A special Thanksgiving for the Papermakers

As many of us will be enjoying spending time with our husbands, wives, children and grandchildren on Thursday, members of the Camas High School football team will be gathering with the people who many of the boys have described as their "second" family -- their teammates.

November 22, 2011

Letters to the Editor for Nov. 22, 2011

Entire County should vote on C-Tran tax increases There is no reason to be puzzled by the fact that voters approved the C-Tran Proposition 1 while favoring Initiative 1125 to limit tolling. If all voters where allowed to participate in the C-Tran vote, it's likely Proposition 1 would have failed. A successful C-Tran vote was made possible through a cynical gerrymander.

November 22, 2011

Council should ignore strategic planning survey

Why should the Washougal City Council ignore the conclusions of the Strategic Planning Team? Much of the work done so far has been based on a precariously unscientific survey. The Strategic Planning Team's survey results demonstrate the danger of relying upon data that may not be meaningful.

November 15, 2011

Letters to the Editor for Nov. 15, 2011

Are school buses always needed? I did not walk 10 miles in 5 feet of snow to get to school, but I did walk a mile through the stubble of a newly cut buckwheat field, and I did walk a mile to high school. With a 10-subject curriculum, I carried lots of books, heavy books.

November 8, 2011

Citizens deserve answers

As profiled in an article in today's Post-Record, for the second time this year Washougal earned State audit results that were clean, and included no findings. This is very good news in the wake of a report issued in October 2009 that stated approximately $100,000 in city revenues were missing, a revelation that was followed by then-Mayor Stacee Sellers' abrupt resignation.

November 8, 2011

Letters to the Editor for Nov. 8, 2011

Message from a soldier I am a Washougal resident and local middle school history teacher who enlisted in the Army in 2008. Today, I said goodbye to my family to join my team in deploying to Afghanistan for a year. Since so many people in the media and in politics so often love to speak on the behalf of soldiers, I wanted to write you and share with you why I'm doing this, in my own words:

November 1, 2011

It’s time to vote

With the General Election just a week away, the time has come for the procrastinators to cast those ballots, which must be postmarked by Nov. 8 to be counted.

November 1, 2011

Letters to the Editor for Nov. 1, 2011

What are Steve Bang's motives? I wasn't going to write a letter to the editor, but after seeing the "Write-in" signs for Steve Bang pop up in the last couple of days, I decided I should.