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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.

October 3, 2019

Washougal begins 2020 budget process

The city of Washougal’s general fund operating budget “is very tight heading into 2020,” according to Washougal City Manager David Scott.

October 3, 2019
Family Promise of Clark County Director Linda Winnett stands inside the day center at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Camas on Sept. 26. Families experiencing homelessness enrolled in the Family Promise program stay at local partner churches at night, then have access to the day center's computer, phones, laundry facilities, showers and more during the daytime.

Community Chest kicks off 2020 campaign

The Camas-Washougal Community Chest is edging closer to its 75th birthday, but the local grant-funding organization shows few signs of slowing down.

October 3, 2019
Jemtegaard Middle School counselor Kirstin Albaugh (left) talks with seventh-grader Laura Perez and eighth-graders Arianna Reyes-Piedra and Efrain Garcia on Sept. 30 about the College Bound Scholarship program, which will be a topic of conversation at the Washougal School District's next "Spanish Speaking Family Night" later this month. (Contributed photo courtesy of Rene Carroll)

WSD reaches out to Latino families

Last spring, Washougal resident Sandy Renner approached Jemtegaard Middle School principal David Cooke to express her frustration with the Washougal School District’s inability to effectively communicate with its Spanish-speaking families.