Camas schools suffered at least $250,000 worth of damage during last week’s winter storms that blanketed the region in snow and ice over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, Jan. 13-15, and again on Tuesday, Jan. 16.
Angela Bunda decided to step back from her music career in 2015 after the birth of her first child. But since then, the 1999 Washougal High School graduate has been able to maintain a connection to her passion for music thanks to her involvement with The Bitchins, a Portland-based rock/horn band that performs just once per year to raise funds for people affected by a disease that afflicts one of its members.
A local business is planning to expand its stable of privately owned airplane hangars at Grove Field near Camas later this year.
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.
The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a winter storm warning for the greater Vancouver metro area, including Camas-Washougal, from 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 12, through 4 a.m.
During a visit to the Port of Camas-Washougal’s industrial park in Washougal on Friday, Jan. 5,
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).
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.
The Port of Camas-Washougal is set to join legal efforts to prevent what Port officials say is the state’s misuse of an aviation fuel tax meant to fund aviation-related programs.
Due to the holiday, there will be no garbage collection in the city of Camas on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 15. Residents…
