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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Wahkiakum Mecha Mule Water Damage and Naselle Bubbleheads are returning to the International SeaPerch Challenge, an underwater robotic competition at the University of Maryland on May 13 after taking first and second place respectively at the second annual SeaPerch qualifying event held at the Cathlamet pool on Friday. Competition was a little stiffer this year with eight teams vying for two spots to the international event. Two Wahkiakum teams were joined by three teams from Naselle, two...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners discussed a couple bills coming up in the legislative session in Olympia and heard about other things going on at the utility. A wildfire mitigation bill should lift some liability off the utilities and is supported by the industry, General Manager Dan Kay said. The second issue is a heat shut off bill, which Kay said is opposed by the industry and more likely to affect utilities on the east side of the state. The bill was proposed to prevent...
On Friday, high school and middle school students in the Wahkiakum Mecha Mules Robotics Club qualified for the SeaPerch International Underwater Robotics Competition, which takes place in Maryland in May. Wahkiakum School District will cover airfare for the seven member team and coaches headed to the competition, but the team is hoping to raise about $12,000 to support the trip, which will include a visit to Washington D.C., as well as other SkillsUSA and FIRST Tech Challenge competitions....
Last week, Wahkiakum Mule baseball player Tanner Collupy was selected as a WIAA Athlete of the Week. The senior was honored by the WIAA after he pitched a complete six inning game during a double header at Morton/White Pass on March 20th. Collupy struck out 12 batters and only gave up three hits and one walk in the 7-0 shutout victory. On offense, he went 1-for-1 with three RBIs and two walks. Collupy hit a line drive that became an inside-the-park home run during the fourth inning of the...
The Wahkiakum Mules lost two games with Napavine last week, bringing their overall record to 2-6. On Wednesday, the Mules hosted the Tigers and lost 10-3. “Senior Tanner Collupy started on the mound for us and pitched five innings, giving up seven runs,” Coach Garrett Radcliffe said. “Freshman Parker Leitz came in as relief and pitched one and 1/3 innings. The game was back and forth, tied 2-2 in the fourth inning and the Tigers were able to rally after Collupy pitched a rare three-pitch innin...
The Wahkiakum Mules softball team lost two games to Morton/White Pass last week, bringing their overall record to 0-6. The Mules hosted the Timberwolves in a double header last Thursday and the final score for both games was 16-4. The Mules will return to play after spring break when they host Adna on Thursday, April 13....
The Wahkiakum Mules track team traveled to Adna on Friday for a 1B/2B/1A meet with six other teams. The boys scored 28 points for a seventh place finish in team competition, and the girls finished with one point and seventh place. Top six finishers for the boys include: 200 meters — 5. Declan Hendricks 26.21 PR; 400 meters — 2. Landon Nielsen 56.68; Shot put — 2. Nielsen 40; Javelin — 5. Nielsen 115-5; Long jump — 2. Nielsen 18-2 PR. Top six finishers for the girls include: 200 meters — 6. Jade...
It's become home, but Cathlamet was only supposed to be a last stop on Tom Robert's pikeminnow fishing tour. "I was traveling all around the northwest in my RV," Roberts said. "I wasn't catching many fish, so I thought, one more stop and then I'm going to stop this fishing." He'd been in Cathlamet only once before, about 25 years earlier, returning from adventures on his oceangoing sailboat. The town and it's people made an impression even then, but this time he warmed to the community even...
The Wahkiakum School District Board of Directors heard a presentation on the robotics program, discussed possible outcomes from the recent Supreme Court hearing on the school district’s lawsuit, and got an update on new security. The meeting began with a presentation from advisors, coaches, and one student involved in the robotics program. The student, Jamie Heston, said that students attended First Tech Challenge state, and took 13th place out of 32 teams. He said they were now preparing for a...
Three more cases of covid-19 were reported in Wahkiakum County according to the Washington Department of Health, bringing the cumulative total to 644. The number of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to the virus remained the same, at 50 and 11 respectively. Disclaimer: With the easy accessibility of at home tests, the actual number of active covid-19 cases and actual cumulative numbers in the county are hard to know. While 70.7 percent of the population in Washington state has received the...
Jack Leavitt, who graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 2017, and has been a longtime volunteer firefighter in the county, was recently voted by his peers to be Rookie of the Year for Cowlitz 2 Fire and Rescue. Leavitt began volunteering for the department in January of 2022. In September, he was hired as a part time firefighter/EMT. "He obviously made a strong impression on a number of the Cowlitz 2 as far as being here in his first year," Cowlitz 2 Fire Interim Chief James Graham said....
The Wahkiakum Mules track team attended a 1B/2B/1A meet in Onalaska last Thursday along with five other teams from around the region. Top six finishers for the Mule boys include: 200 meters — 5. Declan Hendricks 26.7; 400 meters — 2. Landon Nielsen 56.94; 800 meters — 5. Daniel Spisla-Hongel 2:42.35; Shot put — 1. Nielsen 42-6; Discus — 5. Marek Wynn 85-5; Javelin — 4. Nielsen 97-2; Long jump — 1. Nielsen 18, 6. Spisla-Hongel 13-4. Top six finishers for the Mule girls include: 200 meters — 5. J...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners got a visit from Washington PUD Association representatives on Tuesday and approved funding to replace a water main along SR 4 in Grays River. Dave McKenzie, a Skamania PUD Commissioner and the vice president of WPUDA, Liz Anderson, the Deputy Executive Director of WPUDA, and Stefany Zelapuza, a senior policy specialist for WPUDA talked about the history and purpose of the organization which provides training, commissioner education, and advocates...
For more than 40 years, Joe Baker worked as the theater manager for Green River College and director of a popular Heavier Than Air Family Theatre Company sponsored by the college. He loved his nightly walk through a little forested area from the college to his back yard, but as the years went by, the campus slowly creeped closer until his woodland view became three-story student housing. When Baker retired, he and his wife contemplated a move to a little town in eastern Washington, but when he...
According to the Washington Department of Health, there was one case of covid-19 reported in the last week, bringing the cumulative number of cases in Wahkiakum County to 641. The number of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to the virus stand at 50 and 11 respectively. Disclaimer: With the easy accessibility of at home tests, the actual number of active covid-19 cases and actual cumulative numbers in the county are hard to know. While 70.7 percent of the population in Washington state has...
Congratulations to Diane Hollenbeck for being named the Woman's Club Citizen of the Year. Diane, you are a wonder to your friends here in Grays River/Rosburg. You show up to help and you do it without thought of yourself. You deserve this honor one hundred times over. My friend, Kayrene Gilbertsen, is coming to the "Catching the Last Ferry!" event this Saturday at the Hope Center in Cathlamet at 2 p.m. I hope to connect with her there. It's hard to see friends I've known for 20 years sometimes...
On Wednesday, Debbie Fredricks will be in Cathlamet to talk about two programs offered by the WSU Extension Office Fredricks, who was happily retired with 11 grandkids, got pulled back into professional life when she was offered a paycheck to do something that she would have done for free. She had worked for an extension office for 21 years in foods and nutrition, but after retirement, she learned about suicide prevention training while volunteering. “Literally within five days I needed i...
The Wahkiakum Mules softball team hosted Naselle in their home opener on Friday, and lost to the Comets, 29-8. “Eighth grader Evelyn Miller took the varsity mound for the first time ever and showed good composure and some great defense, compiling six putouts while racking up three strikeouts over three innings,” Coach and proud father Garrett Miller said. On offense for the Mules, Evelyn Hogue was one for two at the plate with one RBI. The Mules traveled to Raymond for a double header on Tue...
By Diana Zimmerman The Wahkiakum County Port 1 Board of Commissioners talked about improvements at the Elochoman Slough Marina at their meeting last Tuesday and heard from a float plane enthusiast who would like to make Cathlamet his home base. Initially disheartened by a public response to his query in November, float plane owner Brian Fleming felt encouraged after some more recent and positive conversations with various people in Cathlamet and reiterated his desire to move his aircraft and...
By Diana Zimmerman Grays River resident Diane Hollenbeck is Cathlamet Woman's Club 2022 Citizen of the Year. "The Cathlamet Woman's Club is honored every year in recognizing a person or couple who exemplifies the volunteer spirit," President Caroline Walton said. "I met Diane for the first time at the Club's Christmas Party. She is a genuinely caring person that recognizes a need and tries her best to help others, whether it be for an individual or the community. What touched me most about her,...
Because of a technical issue at the Washington Department of Health, disease activity was not reported lasted week, leaving covid-19 numbers unchanged. The cumulative number in Wahkiakum County stands at 640 and the number of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to the virus stand at 50 and 11 respectively. Weekly reports are expected to resume on Wednesday, March 15. Disclaimer: With the easy accessibility of at home tests, the actual number of active covid-19 cases and actual cumulative...
Rob Garrett is resigning after 11 successful years as the Wahkiakum High School Girls Basketball Head Coach and has much to share about what he's learned over the last decade, about coaching and life. Garrett's lifelong love of basketball and career goals were born in a gym watching another coach, his own father, Bob Garrett. "My love of coaching started at a very young age," Garrett said. "My first influence would be my dad. I remember going to practice when I was still back in Lyle. We moved...
Another business is opening on Main Street in Cathlamet on Saturday that promises to be fun for the kids and for the kid in all of us, The Doll House at the Hotel Cathlamet. The proprietor, Sue Scott, is new to the community. She hails from southern California, but lived more recently in the Midwest and Texas, and moved to Cathlamet to be closer to family. "To make a long story short, I'm starting over," Scott said. "Eighty-two years old and starting something. This never entered my mind."...
At the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday General Manager Dan Kay talked about the ongoing conversation between utilities and Bonneville Power Administration as they negotiate their twenty year, post 2028 contracts. Kay and Commissioner Gene Healy have been closely involved in the process and Kay said the Public Power Council, an organization that represents the interests of utilities in the Pacific Northwest, was thankful for the small utility’s active engagement, a...
There were no new cases of covid-19 reported in Wahkiakum County over the last week, according to the Washington Department of Health, and the cumulative number stands at 640. The number of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to the virus remain the same as well, at 50 and 11 respectively. Disclaimer: With the easy accessibility of at home tests, the actual number of active covid-19 cases and actual cumulative numbers in the county are hard to know. “Most of the main indicators for c...
