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Washougal High School students spent their Friday afternoon collecting and loading food onto school buses during the annual Stuff the Bus event, which was created by the Camas-Washougal Business Alliance.
Washougal High School students spent their Friday afternoon collecting and loading food onto school buses during the annual Stuff the Bus event, which was created by the Camas-Washougal Business Alliance.

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December 2, 2021
A fire engine is pictured at the Camas-Washougal Fire Department Station 42 in Camas on Dec. 6, 2019. (Courtesy of The Columbian files)

Consultants: Camas-Washougal fire merger ‘not sustainable’

A nearly decade-long partnership between Camas and Washougal that formed the Camas-Washougal Fire Department in 2013, “has too many gaps to represent a sustainable model moving forward,” consultants told Camas and Washougal city officials during a Nov. 18 Zoom meeting.

March 15, 2018
Camas High School junior Monica Chang helped bring the national "Girls Who Code" club to Camas High School and, with another Camas High student, developed "Girls Represent," a campaign that encourages girls to pursue careers in male-dominated fields.

Finding balance

Camas High School junior Monica Chang is only six months into her junior year and has managed to take first place at the Oregon Bioscience Showcase, write a first-place, award-winning essay for The Fort Vancouver Sons of the American Revolution and help organize a school walkout honoring Parkland shooting victims — all on top of a class schedule filled with Advanced Placement (AP) classes and after-school clubs, including “Girls Who Code”, DECA and the Southwest Washington Red Cross Youth Council.

March 15, 2018

March Cheers & Jeers

The National School Walkout is happening as this paper goes to print, so we’ll kick off our March Cheers & Jeers with a giant CHEERS to all the students who participated in the 17-minute walkout to remember the Parkland, Florida school shooting victims and to push for sane gun control measures.

March 15, 2018

Making up for lost time

After a surprise storm in February, the snow days seem to be over for the 2017-18 school year.