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November 26, 2025
Black Drongo Brewery co-founders Devin Nail, left, and Tim Smith pose for a photo at their Yilan City, Taiwan, brewery. (Contributed by Black Drongo Brewery)

Camas graduates brew up success in Taiwan

Tim Smith and Devin Nail have known each other since the late 1990s when they became tomodachi (friends) in a Camas High School Japanese class. As adults, they both got into the Portland beer scene and started homebrewing in 2004. They eventually reunited in Taiwan. Nail moved to the Asian island in 2008, followed by Smith in 2010. There, they began brewing once again, motivated by their new country’s relative lack of quality craft brews.

November 26, 2025

Port collecting items for people in need

The Port of Camas-Washougal has partnered with the Camas-Washougal Fire Department’s Christmas Activities Relief Organization Limited program, which provides happier holidays for east Clark County residents in need in through…

November 26, 2025

WCGHS receives support from Raising Cane’s

Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers in Vancouver is supporting the West Columbia Gorge Humane Society this holiday season by donating all of the proceeds from its Cane’s Holiday Plush Puppy promotion…

October 2, 2025
Customer Al Schmid of Washougal strolls the aisles at Lutz Hardware in Camas on Monday afternoon. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian)

Lutz Hardware celebrates 75 years of family ownership in Camas

On Christmas Day of 2022, Aaron Lutz received word from one of his regular customers that the family had lost water service at their house due to freezing weather. Lutz didn’t hesitate to act, temporarily pausing his own holiday festivities to save somebody else’s.