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December 11, 2025
Cohen Butler of Camas (132) runs in the Nike Cross Nationals 5,000-meter men’s
championship race on Saturday at Glendoveer Golf Course in Portland. He posted a time of 15 minutes, 59.2 seconds. (Ken Martinez/West Coast XC)

Cohen Butler of Camas places 55th at nationals

After chasing down a Class 4A state championship in record time and winning the Nike Cross Regional Northwest Championships, Camas senior Cohen Butler capped a busy monthlong stretch with a memorable experience competing in the Nike Cross Nationals on Saturday.

December 11, 2025
A meadow sits inside a forested tract of land at the Vancouver Innovation Center site in east Vancouver. The city of Vancouver has purchased the 14.3-acre site for $4.3 million and plans to turn it into the city’s next park. (Contributed photo)

Vancouver plans community park

Parks leaders are celebrating the city of Vancouver’s official acquisition of a 14.3-acre parcel of undeveloped, forested land in east Vancouver set to become the city’s newest community park.

December 4, 2025

Councilors sworn into office

Camas and Washougal city councilors were sworn into office during council meetings on Dec. 2. In Camas, incumbents Tim Hein (Ward 2), Martin Elzingre (Ward 2) and Marilyn Boerke…

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.