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December 24, 2020
A group protests school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic in front of the Washougal School District headquarters on Dec. 17, 2020. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Washougal greenlights school reopenings

Several dozen parents and students gathered in front of the Washougal School District office on Dec. 17 for an informal rally, waving signs in front of honking automobiles and calling for the district to reopen its buildings for in-person instruction.

December 17, 2020
Parents, guardians and their kindergarten students line up outside Helen Baller Elementary School in Camas on Nov. 9, 2020. (Contributed photo by Doreen McKercher, courtesy of the Camas School District)

Camas revises school reopening plan

Four weeks after a group of Camas parents rallied in front of school district offices to reopen schools, the Camas School Board has unanimously approved a plan to offer small-group, in-person learning to all K-12 students by the end of March 2021.

December 3, 2020
Washougal High School (Courtesy of The Columbian files)

Students say they’re struggling

The Washougal School Board recently heard from several students who say the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the school district’s remote-learning situation is taking a toll on their social-emotional wellbeing.

December 3, 2020

Jemtegaard students take on ‘A Christmas Carol’

COVID-19 may have canceled most in-person plays and musicals in Camas and Washougal this year, but a group of Washougal middle schoolers have not let that stop them from bringing the arts to the community this holiday season.

November 12, 2020

Dorothy Fox PTA launches shoe drive fundraiser

The Dorothy Fox Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association in Camas has launched a shoe drive fundraiser to help enhance educational opportunities and support teachers and staff. The PTA will collect worn,…

November 12, 2020
Kindergarten teacher Marilyn Canfield leads students at Helen Baller Elementary School in Camas on Monday, Nov. 9, the first day of in-person kindergarten classes at the school district since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered classrooms throughout Clark County in March 2020. (Contributed photo by Doreen McKercher, courtesy of the Camas School District)

Local kindergarteners head back to school

Hundreds of Camas-Washougal kindergarten students experienced their classrooms for the first time this week, after leaders in both school districts OK’d the reopening of school buildings for their youngest learners.