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January 18, 2018
Sandra Gangle stands inside her new Camas home, near some of the artwork she's created to remember the many places she and her husband have visited over the years. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

New group takes fight out of foreign affairs

Tired of fighting about politics? Want to learn more about what’s really going on in the world — and maybe make some like-minded friends while you’re at it? You may want to check out the newly formed Camas chapter of the national Great Decisions foreign policy discussion group.

January 11, 2018
Kayakers enjoy a sunny spring day on Lacamas Lake in Camas. City leaders are working to secure properties along the lake's northern shores, to conserve natural spaces and start to build a trail that will someday encircle the lake. (Contributed photo courtesy of A. Paul Newman)

Making space for nature in Camas

Two months after the Board of County Councilors approved $7 million worth of land conservation projects, including a $4.8 million Camas effort to preserve 100 acres near the northern edges of Lacamas Lake, local leaders are working with landowners to secure natural space and forest land before it can be developed — and pave the way for a planned multi-use trail system that will someday encircle the lake.

January 11, 2018
Camas-Washougal Fire Department firefighters attack a commercial fire burning through a storage yard in Washougal in July of 2017. (Post-Record file photo)

Camas eyes partnership with ECFR

How does a growing city address the possibility of increased fire and emergency medical service (EMS) calls without taxing its current system or going overboard by spending millions on future stations that may or may not be needed?

January 4, 2018
Italian artist Maria Grazia Repetto (left) discusses her artwork, painted on round canvasses she found in the Southwestern United States, with Camas Gallery co-owner Marquita Call (right) on Friday, Dec. 29. The gallery is featuring Repetto's art throughout the month of January, and will host an art reception during First Friday, from 5 to 8 p.m., Jan. 5.

Italian inspiration

When Maria Grazia Repetto moved from her native Italy to the Pacific Northwest in 1995, she immediately fell in love with eastern Washington’s cowboy-country charm and Seattle’s moody, rain-soaked landscapes.

December 21, 2017
School bus drivers in the Washougal School District are among the hundreds of classified employees who will get a 5-percent salary bump.

School district, employees OK contract

More than one month after going into mediation over contract bargaining conflicts, the Washougal School District and its classified employees have come to an agreement.

December 21, 2017
Phlebotomists Jake Cole (left) and Leah Hauge (right) with Bloodworks Northwest, handle donated blood on Monday, Dec. 18, at the Camas Public Library. The two Bloodworks Northwest employees said donors are needed this week and throughout the holidays to help replenish blood supplies after a fatal train crash north of Olympia killed three people and sent more than 70 passengers to regional hospitals.

DONORS NEEDED NOW

Local blood banks sent out an urgent appeal for donors this week, after an Amtrak passenger train derailed off an Interstate 5 overpass between Tacoma and Olympia Monday morning, killing three people and injuring more than 70 others.

December 21, 2017
Chris Marlahan (left) and Michelle Marlahan (right), of Washougal, look through binoculars to see wintering waterfowl inside the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday, Dec. 13. The gate near the couple leads to a spur trail, which is closed from Oct. 1 to May 1 to help protect the wintering wildlife from human interaction.

Walking in Washougal’s Winter Wonderland

It’s one of the coldest days of the year, but the sun is radiant and the air invigorating — and we all know that the never-ending rains are coming our way — so it’s not too surprising to see a few cars parked at the Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge, just outside Washougal’s eastern city limits, off Highway 14.