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September 1, 2022
A couple walks near the intersection of Northwest Brady Road and 16th Avenue on Aug. 1, 2022. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Camas Station moves forward

An independent hearings examiner has cleared the way for Camas Station, a gas station-car wash-retail complex, to be developed at the corner of Northwest Brady Road and Northwest 16th Avenue in Camas’ Prune Hill neighborhood.

September 1, 2022
Camas High School football players listen to their coaches after a practice at Cardon Field, behind Camas High, on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. The Papermakers kick off their 2022 football season this week with an away game against Yelm on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

CHS football team ready to defend league title

Camas head football coach Jack Hathaway has gathered his Papermakers into a giant huddle on Camas High’s Cardon Field to give some words of advice and psych the players up for their season opener.

September 1, 2022
Mark Castle
Washougal High School principal

Washougal High names principal

The Washougal School District has named Mark Castle as Washougal High School’s next principal, replacing Sheree Gomez-Clark, who accepted a job at the Camas School District in July.

August 25, 2022
An illustration shows how "Hyas Point" might be incorporated into a mixed-use development project on the Washougal waterfront. RKm Development announced in August 2022, that the development will be named Hyas Point. (Contributed graphic courtesy of the Port of Camas-Washougal)

Welcome to Hyas Point: Washougal waterfront development has a new name

From its inception in the early 2010s until earlier this month, the Port of Camas-Washougal’s Washougal waterfront development project was unnamed. Most of the time, Port officials and project leaders colloquially referred to it as “the waterfront development,” or by its more formal, but still unofficial, moniker, “The Waterfront at Parker’s Landing.”

August 25, 2022
Camas Engineering Manager James Carothers (right) discusses maps showing possible zoning changes in the city's North Shore area, located northeast of Lacamas Lake, during an open house at Lacamas Lake Lodge on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas North Shore: ‘Growth will happen here, so we have to manage it the best we can’

As Camas city officials inch closer to implementing policies that will shape the look and feel of Camas’ North Shore area — while staying true to the eight-point North Shore Vision approved by the Camas City Council in the fall of 2020 — community members continue to weigh in on what they would like to see in the mostly undeveloped, 800-acre, mixed-use area located off the northeast section of Camas’ Lacamas Lake.