Camas-Washougal Post-Record

February 1, 2024

Camas, Washougal students to perform in honor band

February 1, 2024

Public meetings: Feb. 2-8, 2024

Camas City Council: The Council will hold a workshop at 4:30 p.m. and regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5, at Camas City Hall, 616 N.E. Fourth Ave., Camas, and online via Zoom. For more information, including remote log-in details, visit cityofcamas.us/yourgovernment/minuteagendavideo and click on the agendas for the Feb. 5, 2024, workshop and meeting.

January 25, 2024

Screenshot by Doug Flanagan/Post-Record
Trevor Evers (left), the city of Washougal's public works director, and Sergey Tarasov, a principal for the Redmond, Washington-based FCS Group, talk about the city of Washougal's new utility rates during a Washougal City Council workshop on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023.

Washougal OK’s utility rate hikes

Washougal utility customers will see increases in their water, sewer and stormwater bills over the next five years.

January 25, 2024

Construction on a mixed-use building that will feature 46 apartments, 49 off-street parking spots and 1,200 square feet of retail space takes place in downtown Washougal, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Work on mixed-use building in downtown Washougal leaves some scratching heads

A construction project happening in the heart of downtown Washougal has raised many people’s hopes that the long-awaited, new Washougal library building is finally going up.

January 25, 2024

Camas school levy supporters get out the vote ahead of Feb. 13 election

Camas School District voters will soon decide the fate of two replacement levies that supplement state and federal funding and account for approximately 15% of the school district’s annual revenues.

January 25, 2024

Skyridge Middle School staff survey classrooms for water damage Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. A winter storm that hit the Camas-Washougal area over the three-day Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, Jan. 13-15, 2024, caused two pipes to freeze and burst inside the Camas middle school, impacting 22 classrooms and the library. Camas School District leaders said this week that the storm-related damage will cost at least $250,000 to repair.

Camas schools damaged during winter storms

Camas schools suffered at least $250,000 worth of damage during last week’s winter storms that blanketed the region in snow and ice over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, Jan. 13-15, and again on Tuesday, Jan. 16.

January 25, 2024

Contributed photo courtesy Angela Bunda
The Bitchins, a Portland-based rock-and-horn band, reunites once per yaer to put on a benefit concert to raise money for the Parkinson's Resources of Oregon nonprofit organization.

Local musicians prepare for annual ‘benefit bash’

Angela Bunda decided to step back from her music career in 2015 after the birth of her first child. But since then, the 1999 Washougal High School graduate has been able to maintain a connection to her passion for music thanks to her involvement with The Bitchins, a Portland-based rock/horn band that performs just once per year to raise funds for people affected by a disease that afflicts one of its members.

January 25, 2024

A sign greets visitors at the Port of Camas-Washougal's Grove Field airport, located north of Camas, Jan. 21, 2021. (Post-Record file photo)

Camas company to build hangars at Grove Field airport

A local business is planning to expand its stable of privately owned airplane hangars at Grove Field near Camas later this year.

January 25, 2024

Washougal resident Donna Sinclair (right) and former United States Forest Service forest supervisor Gloria Brown talk about their book,

Washougal historian Donna Sinclair to open Clark County Historical Museum’s 2024 Speaker Series

Washougal historian Donna Sinclair opens museum’s 2024 Speaker Series with Feb. 1 presentation

January 25, 2024

Public meetings: Jan. 25-31, 2024

Camas City Council: The Council will meet at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, and at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27, for the Council’s annual two-day planning conference. For more information, including location and remote log-in details, visit cityofcamas.us/meetings

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