A recent commenter on the city of Camas’ “Engage Camas” website succinctly summed up the annual “should they stay or should they go?” argument over personal fireworks.
“Washington has come a long way since the first confirmed case of COVID in the country was found in our state in January 2020,” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said in May, just a few weeks before reopening the state and removing most COVID restrictions on Wednesday, June 30. “That is in no small part due to Washingtonians’ dedication and resilience in protecting themselves and their communities throughout the pandemic.”
Once you’ve attended a few high school graduation ceremonies — shout out to the teachers, school administrators and other community newspaper folks out there — the speeches and cheers and caps flying in the air may start to blend together in your memory.
It’s graduation time in Camas and Washougal. Local high school graduates will don caps and gowns this weekend to bid adieu to their K-12 school days and celebrate an exciting…
With the local candidate declaration period ending on May 21, we will soon know — save last-minute write-in candidates — who plans to compete for several open positions on Camas-Washougal city councils, school boards and commissions in the August primary and November general elections.
For anyone even slightly concerned about future generations and what we can do now to protect the environment for our children and grandchildren, it’s hard to avoid being…
The federal government called for a “pause” on injections of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine this week after six U.S. women between the ages of 18 and 48 experienced a rare, severe form of blood clotting six to 13 days after receiving their inoculations.
“What if the other side collapses while we’re in here?”
Despite shuttering its pulp mill, closing its “Roaring 20” office paper line and laying off nearly two-thirds of its workforce in 2018, Georgia-Pacific, which still operates one paper line and employs 150 workers at the downtown Camas paper mill, says it has no intention of leaving Camas anytime soon.
If there’s one thing that deserves a giant cheers this month it is the fact that we can finally see the light at the end of this long, dark, jumping-spider-filled COVID-19 tunnel.
