Washougal River Mercantile has new owners but they want to keep the store’s ‘hometown feel’Subscriber Exclusive

Roger Malfait and his wife, Savannah Malfait, had a simple reason for wanting to purchase the Washougal River Mercantile, a general store that had previously been owned by the Fuller family for nearly 50 years.

“We just wanted to keep the store local,” said Roger Malfait, a lifelong resident of the rural area known to locals as “upriver” Washougal.