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January 2, 2020
Signs for and against the city of Camas' $78 million community-aquatics center bond line a grassy strip near Crown Park a few days before the Nov. 5, 2019, general election. (Post-Record file photos)

Year in Review

From political upsets in the Camas mayor’s race to tragedies at local swimming holes to school districts grappling with funding shortfalls, there was no shortage of news stories coming out of Camas-Washougal in 2019. Following is a look back at the “top 10” news stories that caught Post-Record readers’ attention in 2019:

December 27, 2019
City of Washougal parks and cemetery manager Suzanne Grover (left) and Richard Johnson of the Camas-Washougal Historical Society (CWHS) talk about the vintage sleigh donated by the CWHS to the city earlier this month. (Contributed photo courtesy of Rene Carroll)

Mystery sleigh finds new home

For the past 12 years, a vintage sleigh sat in the rafters of the Carriage House facility at Two Rivers Heritage Museum in Washougal, attracting a lot of dust but…

December 27, 2019

Port sets new meeting schedule

An effort to coordinate with local city officials has prompted Port of Camas-Washougal commissioners to rethink their bi-weekly meeting dates. Port Commissioner Larry Keister realized he and the two other…

December 19, 2019
Jim Cooper (center) is sworn in to his Washougal School District No. 1 director position at a Dec. 9 meeting at Gause Elementary School. Later in the meeting, the board members voted for Cory Chase (left) to retain his board president position, and voted Angela Hancock (right) as board vice president.

Washougal school board greets newest member

As a former math and science professor and researcher, Jim Cooper is pretty good with numbers. But he wasn’t prepared for the onslaught of letters that he faced during his first meeting as a member of the Washougal School District (WSD) board of directors, held Dec. 10 at Gause Elementary School.