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January 30, 2020
Screenshots show negative comments targeting Navidi's Olive Oils and Vinegar, a downtown Camas business. (Photos by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas business hit with online negative reviews

A downtown Camas business became the target of an online “negative review” campaign this week after a small group of local residents decided to get personal with their efforts to move a proposed cell tower away from a local elementary school.

January 30, 2020
Camas officials meet for the Camas City Council's annual planning retreat on Friday, Jan. 24, at Lacamas Lake Lodge. Pictured from left to right (around the table) are Camas School District Superintendent and planning retreat mediator Jeff Snell, Camas Mayor Barry McDonnell and Council members Ellen Burton, Bonnie Carter, Shannon Roberts, Steve Hogan, Melissa Smith and Greg Anderson. Audience members seated to the left of city officials included Camas Police Chief Mitch Lackey (back row, far left). (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Officials reflect on failed $78 million community-aquatics center bond

Camas City Council members and Camas Mayor Barry McDonnell reflected this week on lessons they learned from the November 2019 general election, when a clear majority (90 percent) of voters shut down the city’s proposed $78 million community-aquatics center construction bond.

January 30, 2020
Members of the Washougal Citizens for Schools Group hold signs urging Washougal School District voters to "vote yes" on the district's replacement levies on the Feb. 11 special election ballot. Pictured from left to right: Ellie Furze-Brown, Renae Burson, Linda Henderson, Erin Eaton, Nathan Knottingham, Angelah Quidachay-Ham, Cindy Coons and Erin Darling. (Contributed photo courtesy of Nathan Knottingham)

Voters asked to replace 2 levies

Washougal School District voters are being asked to replace two levies in the Feb. 11 special election — an operational levy that helps pay for educational services and maintenance not funded by the state or federal government as well as a technology levy that helps keep Washougal students’ technology and computer training up-to-date.

January 23, 2020
Camas resident Stacie Blomdahl (left) and her daughter, Katie O'Daniel,  of La Center, launched Skip the Trip Delivery, a food delivery business serving Camas-Washougal, in October 2019. (Contributed photo courtesy of Katie O'Daniel)

New business lets hungry customers ‘skip the trip’

In 2019, La Center resident and Washougal native Katie O’Daniel began to seriously think about her career options. For the past few years she had been a stay-at-home mom, but with her son about to start kindergarten, O’Daniel, who had previously been a nursing assistant and hospice worker, decided she wanted to join the workforce again.

January 23, 2020
Former Camas mayors Dean Dossett (left), Nan Henriksen (center) and Paul Dennis (right) attend a dedication ceremony for the Washougal River Greenway Trail in 2010. Dossett, who served as Camas' mayor from 1992 to 2002, died at the age of 77 on Jan. 18. (Post-Record file photo)

Former Camas mayor Dossett dies

A former Camas mayor and city councilman is being remembered this week for his dedication to the community he led during most of the 1990s.

January 23, 2020
Sen. Ann Rivers

Rivers opposes three environmental protection bills

Less than two weeks into the Washington State Legislature’s 60-day 2020 session, which runs from Jan. 13 to March 12. Senator Ann Rivers, the Republican representing Camas-Washougal voters in the state’s 18th Legislative District, has voted “no” on three environmental protection bills.