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Stories by Doug Flanagan

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June 12, 2025
The Little Bronze Girl statue sits in the back of Camas police Officer Ryan Devaney’s vehicle in preparation for its trip back to downtown Camas on May 31. (Contributed by the Camas Police Department)

Little Bronze Girl found

The Little Bronze Girl, a 3-foot-tall metal statue of a child reading a book, has been a beloved part of downtown Camas since being installed on a bench at the corner of Northeast Fourth Avenue and Northeast Cedar Street in 2002.

June 12, 2025
Port of Camas-Washougal employees work on the port’s new boathouse at Parker’s Landing Marina on June 6. (Photos by Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Rentable boathouse docks at Port of C-W marina

Right before Port of Camas-Washougal Facilities Director Eric Plantenberg broke a bottle of Cook’s champagne on the bow of the port’s new boathouse on the morning of June 6, a port employee said the vessel should have a name before entering the Columbia River, Plantenberg replied, “Hope floats?”