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October 12, 2017

Educators vie for school board seat

Of the three Washougal School Board positions voters will see on the Nov. 7, 2017 General Election ballot, only one, the district three seat, is contested. Board member Cory Chase…

October 12, 2017
Families gather at the Washougal Harvest Festival in 2016. Contributed photo

A hauntingly good harvest time

We’ve had a few rainy days this fall but, so far, October is shaping up to be one of those wonderfully crisp, sunny months that are perfect for harvest festivals…

October 5, 2017
Vancouver novelist and artist Gary Watson at his home studio in late September, prepares for his upcoming art show at the Second Story Gallery, above the Camas Library at 625 N.E. Fourth Ave. The show runs Oct. 6-28. Here, Watson shows his painting of "Mara," an African elephant featured in his last novel, Mercy in Masquerade. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Art meets advocacy

An upcoming October show at Camas’ Second Story Gallery, which kicks off tomorrow with a Camas First Friday reception, will focus on more than just beautiful artwork.

October 5, 2017
The Camas City Council listens to city staff during an Oct. 2 meeting at Camas City Hall. The councilors voted 5-2 in favor of accepting a new salary schedule for non-represented city employees at the Monday night meeting.

Camas OKs new salary scales

Camas City Council members on Monday voted 5-2 to adopt a somewhat contentious set of salary scales for the city’s “non-represented” employees — those who are not part of a union or represented by a collective bargaining agreement.

October 5, 2017
Lesa Sims, a retired youth pastor from the Camas Church of the Nazarene, holds a brochure advertising her church's upcoming informational seminar on human trafficking. The free seminar is designed to educate the public about global, regional and local human trafficking, and teach people how to help prevent sexual and labor exploitation in their own communities.

Forum: ‘Are more slaves now than ever’

Dozens of Camas-Washougal community members turned out Sunday night to learn more about the pervasive but often-hidden issue of human trafficking. Lesa Sims, a former youth pastor at the Camas…

September 28, 2017

State denies coal permit

The Washington Department of Ecology has thrown a wrench into Millennium Bulk Terminals’ hopes of building the largest coal export terminal in North America, possibly killing a plan that would add 16 slow-moving, 1.3-mile-long coal trains to Camas-Washougal rail lines each day.

September 28, 2017
Lesa Sims, a retired youth pastor from the Camas Church of the Nazarene, holds a brochure advertising her church's upcoming informational seminar on human trafficking. The free seminar is designed to educate the public about global, regional and local human trafficking, and teach people how to help prevent sexual and labor exploitation in their own communities.

Church shines spotlight on local human trafficking

Towns like Camas and Washougal — and the children who live here — are probably not the first thing people think about when they hear the startling statistics related to human trafficking in the United States. But make no mistake, says Lesa Sims, a retired youth pastor from the Camas Church of the Nazarene, small-town Clark County is not immune from the realities of modern-day slavery.