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May 15, 2025
A notice of proposed development sign stands on the city of Camas’ Well 13 property off Southeast Cramer Lane on Thursday, May 8, 2025. A Camas hearings examiner will oversee a public hearing at 5 p.m. May 29 at Camas City Hall to consider the city’s plan to build a treatment facility on the Well 13 site to remove toxic PFAS, known as “forever chemicals,” from the public drinking water well. (Kelly Moyer/The Columbian)

Camas well tainted by PFAS to return to service

To meet increased water demand during the summer months, the city of Camas plans to bring Well 13 back online this week, even though it has the city’s highest levels of toxic “forever chemicals.”

May 1, 2025
Audience members listen to U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, answer questions Thursday during a town hall at the Luepke Center in central Vancouver. Hundreds of constituents lined up for the event with signs expressing their anger over Perez’s voting record. (Photos by Taylor Balkom/The Columbian)

Gluesenkamp Perez feels heat at town hall

A line of more than 500 people wrapped around the Luepke Center in central Vancouver for U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s April 24 town hall. Most of them were there to criticize the Skamania Democrat for siding with Republicans on recent controversial votes. Many of them had voted for her.

April 17, 2025
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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez defends vote in favor of SAVE Act

Southwest Washington’s Marie Gluesenkamp Perez was one of just four Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to vote in favor of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, also known as the SAVE Act — a controversial bill that would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.