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June 12, 2025
Shared-use pickleball-tennis courts at Camas’ Grass Valley Park sit empty on Friday evening, June 6, 2025 (Photos by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Parks chief seeks solution to pickleball-tennis conflict

As long as there have been shared tennis-pickleball courts in Camas, there have been clashes — among players vying for more court time, neighbors tired of hearing the recognizable “thwack” of a pickleball racket hitting the ball, and other park users frustrated by crowded parking lots and what they say are an influx of out-of-state pickleball players.

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?”

June 5, 2025
Discovery High School students gather in the east commons area of their project-based learning high school in Camas on Thursday afternoon, May 22. To make up for a $13 million revenue shortfall, the Camas School District is merging its two project-based learning schools, bringing Odyssey Middle School students and staff into the adjacent Discovery High School building this fall to create the district’s first 6-12 school. (Photos by Amanda Cowan/The Columbian)

Despite objections, Discovery, Odyssey to share one campus

There are still a few kinks to work out and likely a few worried students to convince, but the Camas School District’s plan to merge its project-based learning middle and high schools into one building seems to have found a path forward that quells most, if not all, of the concerns raised earlier this year when the district first announced the creation of its first 6-12 school.