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Stories by Kelly Moyer

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October 18, 2018
Police found the body of a missing Vancouver woman in Camas' Lacamas Lake, pictured, on Tuesday, Oct. 27. (Post-Record file photo)

Toxic blue-green algae warning at two Camas lakes

Having already issued a blue-green algae advisory for Round Lake in Camas earlier in the week, the Clark County Public Health Department has now added a second Camas lake to the…

October 18, 2018

Serial robbery suspect found in Washougal home

Law enforcement from the Southwest Washington Regional SWAT Team, Washougal Police Department and Gresham Police Department took a serial robbery suspect into custody without incident Thursday morning. The SWAT team…

October 18, 2018
Volunteers plant native trees at Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Washougal. Camas-Washougal Community Chest grants help fund habitat restoration projects at the refuge and at the nearby, environmentally sensitive Gibbons Creek. (Post-Record file photo)

Building community

When it comes to helping the community, there is nothing quite like the Camas-Washougal Community Chest.

October 18, 2018
Isaac Brown (left) attends school with his daughter, Aryanna Albright (right), at Jemtegaard Middle School in Washougal on Oct. 11. (Contributed photo by Rene Carroll, courtesy of Washougal School District)

Jemtegaard parents relive middle school

Jemtegaard Middle School (JMS) students flipped the switch on the classic “Take Your Child to Work” day, Oct. 11, inviting their parents to join them in their classrooms for an entire day of middle school.

October 18, 2018
Cooper Green, 23, joined The Post-Record staff in September.

UO graduate joins staff at Post-Record

Recent University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications graduate Cooper Green has joined the editorial staff at the Camas-Washougal Post-Record as a news reporter.

October 18, 2018

Washougal food co-op could become community touchstone

Recently asked to describe Washougal to a friend from Portland, I told her the town’s blossoming downtown business core reminded me of our own outer East Portland Montavilla neighborhood about…

October 10, 2018

Herrera Beutler to skip Camas forum

The 16th annual candidate forum hosted by the Camas High School Youth Advisory Council will be absent one notable politician this year.

October 4, 2018
Jerry Nichols, a retired Camas paper mill worker, took this photo of the inside of the Georgia-Pacific Camas paper mill in the 1980s, when the infamous "Roaring 20" office paper line first started up. The company shut down that paper line, as well as the pulp mill, on May 1. (Contributed photo courtesy of Jerry Nichols)

Federal aid for mill workers up in the air

Five months after the May 1 beginning of a staggered layoff affecting nearly 300 employees at the Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Camas, displaced workers are still waiting to hear if they might receive Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) benefits from the federal government.

October 4, 2018
Congressional candidate Carolyn Long, the Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler for Washington's 3rd Congressional District seat, speaks to students at Camas High School, Tuesday, Oct. 2, about getting more involved in politics on local, state and federal levels.

Long visits Camas High

Nearly 300 Camas High students packed into their school library during their lunch periods Tuesday, Oct. 2, to hear Democratic Congressional candidate and Washington State University, Vancouver political science professor Dr. Carolyn Long talk about her recent leap into politics, what it’s like to be a woman in a male-dominated field and how young people can become more involved in local, state and federal politics.