As we mark the 79th annual National Newspaper Week this week, many of us who have worked in the newspaper business for a couple decades are feeling more conflicted than ever before.
Community news journalists are well-versed in the issue of safety planning. We talk about it in relation to natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and floods. We write about it when covering issues related to domestic violence and the hardships people face when confronted with statistics that they are more likely to be murdered by an enraged and unstable romantic partner after they decide to leave. And we talk about it every time there is a mass shooting at a school, movie theater or nightclub.
There’s a lot to celebrate this month, so we’re going to get the bad news out of the way first and then do a deep dive into the good stuff.
Washougal seems to have attracted four very strong candidates in its hunt for the city’s next chief of police.
When we first reported the creation of the Washougal Arts Commission in May 2018, the idea seemed like a no-brainer: the group had $5,000 in seed money, a thriving network of local artists and Joyce Lindsay, a strong arts advocate and member of the Washougal City Council and the Washougal Arts and Culture Alliance, had thrown her weight behind the new commission.
We know numbers have a way of dulling the message, but when it comes to the number 80, Camas folks should take note.
If you know any newspaper reporters, you probably know our minds are usually thinking one to two weeks ahead of the calendar date and our short-term memory can be iffy. That’s why writing the monthly Cheers & Jeers editorial requires us to flip through every story we’ve published that month to find the issues that deserve a thumbs up — and those that deserve to be called out in a “jeers.”
As this newspaper was headed for the printer, we all received tragic news: a young teen boy, out for a late afternoon of fun with his friends, had drowned in Camas’ Lacamas Lake.
The recent livestock debate in Washougal — or the “pig and chicken fight” as we’ve been calling it at editorial meetings — is a classic tale of a once-rural town growing into its new urban limbs.
The horror of last weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio was still fresh when more than 400 Clark County school administrators gathered inside Camas’ Discovery High School Monday morning…
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