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October 23, 2019

Post-Record wins top honors in journalism contest

The Camas-Washougal Post-Record recently won a first-place General Excellence award for newspapers its size in Washington state at the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association (WNPA)’s 2019 Better Newspaper Contest. This was the second year in a row the newspaper has won this first-place honor.

October 21, 2019
Submitted photo courtesy Camas-Washougal Fire Department

Washougal building destroyed by fire

Fundraisers have been established to help several businesses that were damaged or destroyed by a fire on Sunday, Oct. 20. The businesses affected by the fire at a building…

October 17, 2019
Jemtegaard Middle School Club 8 art student Abby Picho paints a section of a mural in Washougal on Saturday, Oct. 12. (Doug Flanagan/Post-Record)

Washougal students create mural

The 10 words at the bottom of Washougal’s newest public mural encapsulate the essence of the artwork: “I am unique. I am not you. I am me.”

October 17, 2019

Child rapist released from jail early

A former Washougal School District employee and employees union president who was sentenced in November 2018 to serve 11 years in prison for raping and molesting a child was released from Clark County Jail on Sunday, Oct. 13.

October 10, 2019
Ray Kutch, a Washougal resident since 1990, is running for re-election to his Council No. 5 position. "We're going to help each other," he said. "That's my goal, to try to help bring people to this community and make it better."

Newcomer challenges Washougal incumbent

In the only contested Washougal City Council race, councilman Ray Kutch is vying against challenger Denise Korhonen in the Nov. 5 general election to retain the council position 5 seat he’s held for nearly three years.

October 10, 2019
Members and volunteers from a Villages NW group in Portland enjoy an outing. A newly formed Villages Clark County group seeks to help seniors age in place. (Contributed photo courtesy of Villages Clark County)

Nonprofit organizes volunteers to help seniors age in place

In Hillary Clinton’s book, “It Takes a Village,” the former Secretary of State is referring to an African proverb that says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” But the same could be said of helping seniors “age in place.”

October 10, 2019
Illustration by LSW Architects, courtesy of city of Camas 
 A design proposal shows what the Camas City Hall Annex building, located on Northeast Fourth Avenue, one block west of the main City Hall building in the former Bank of America space, will contain once renovations are complete. The Annex is expected to become a new permitting center for the city and also provide room for the Camas-Washougal Fire Marshal's office.

Camas OKs $1M to fix up City Hall

Camas city councilors on Monday approved a nearly $1 million contract for the renovation of the Camas City Hall lobby and the new City Hall Annex building.

October 9, 2019

Election season heats up

With a mayor’s race that now has two write-in candidates; a hotly debated $78 million community-aquatics center bond proposal; and several contested city council, school board and port commission seats headed to voters in the Nov. 5 general election, there is no shortage of political information flowing through Camas and Washougal this election season.