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April 4, 2019
Washougal School District Superintendent Mary Templeton (left) swears in Washougal School Board Director Angela Hancock (center) while board director Donna Sinclair (right) looks on, during a September 2018 school board meeting. (Post-Record file photo)

Amplifying student voices

Earlier this year Washougal School District superintendent Mary Templeton and Washougal High School principal Aaron Hansen had a conversation about the role of the high school’s student representatives to the district’s board of directors.

March 28, 2019
Camas School District superintendent Jeff Snell announces that Hellen Baller Elementary School teacher Amy Campbell (right) is the district's nominee for the 2020 Washington Teacher of the Year award at the district's board of directors meeting March 25.

Camas names its nominee

Amy Campbell is passionate about helping her students succeed, and sometimes she has trouble containing that passion. But that’s OK with her; she tries to foster as many ‘celebration moments’ in her classroom as possible.

March 28, 2019
Washougal Community Library's Rachael Ries works with Columbia River Gorge Elementary School students Lauren Byrne, Aubrey Timmons and Bailey Wright during a coding club session last month. (Contributed photo courtesy of Rene Carroll)

STEM lessons expanding in Washougal

Earlier this month, fourth-grade students at Gause Elementary School participated in an activity in which they were asked to build ‘scribble bots.’

March 21, 2019

Mount Pleasant to modernize facilities

After the Mount Pleasant School District’s Tuesday, March 19 board meeting, superintendent Vicki Prendergast and board president Karl Kanthak sat around a table nestled in a corner of a classroom at Mount Pleasant Elementary School and talked about some of the challenges that come with supervising a small, rural school district.

March 14, 2019

$8 million shortfall expected next year

A member of the Camas School District’s budget committee told Camas school board members Monday the committee is addressing the district’s looming 2019-20 budget deficits.

March 14, 2019
Members of the Camas High School drama department prepare the school's stage on March 11. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" will open Thursday, March 14.

Camas High to stage ‘Hunchback’

When Sean Kelly announced last year that the Camas High School drama department would produce and perform “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” as its annual musical the following spring, his students weren’t overly enthusiastic about the choice.

March 7, 2019
Camas High School students Akash Prasad (left) and Jacob Leetham (right) talk about their project during the Southwest Washington Science and Engineering Fair, held Saturday, March 2, at Skyview High School in Vancouver.

Camas students clean up at regional fair

Camas High School students have competed in the Southwest Washington Science and Engineering Fair for more than 10 years, and in most of those years they’ve done fairly well.

February 28, 2019
Boxer Ben Schluter from Camas picks up another piece of hardware after winning the Silver Gloves Regional Boxing Tournament in Boise, Idaho. The win gave him the honor of competing at the National Tournament in Missouri, where he finished in fifth place.

Skyridge boxer competes at national level

Don’t let his small size fool you, Ben Schluter, a 101-pound, 14-year-old Skyridge Middle School student, is one of the best teen boxers in the country.