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The Naselle Comets basketball teams will begin postseason play on Friday. The girls start the District 4 1B tournament on Friday at 6 p.m. at home against the winner of a February 9 game between Three Rivers Christian and Washington School for the Deaf. The Naselle Comets boys basketball team will make their first appearance in the District 4 tournament on February 15 at home at 6 p.m. against a yet determined opponent. The boys are 9-2 in conference, and the girls are 9-9 ov...
Photos by Ian Brandon The Lady Mules won their final two league games last week and inched closer to a trip to Spokane with wins in the first two rounds of the District 4 tournament this week. On Tuesday, the Lady Mules took on Napavine in the second round of the district tournament, and they did it without one of their starters, Miya Kerstetter, who sprained an ankle in open gym over the weekend. The Lady Mules were behind for much of the game but pulled ahead when Amirah Abdul-Kariem hit a...
Photos by Todd Wilson The Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team lost two games this week, one to finish the regular season and the second in the first round of post season play. Last Thursday, the team traveled to Morton/White Pass to play their final conference game of the season. The Mules lost 65-41. "They played a zone defense, and we did not handle it very well," Coach Todd Souvenir said. "We've been working on how to handle that in the last week, moving the ball and reacting to what the...
The Central 2B League coaches have voted on all-league honors for players and coaches. All told, there are nine girls playing basketball at Wahkiakum High School this year, and five of them were recently honored by coaches in the Central 2B League. Wahkiakum Lady Mules Coach Rob Garrett has been named coach of the year for the second year in a row. Reigha Niemeyer is co-most valuable player along with Addison Hall from Winlock. Miya Kerstetter and Megan Leitz were named to the first team;...
There were five new reported cases of covid-19 in Wahkiakum County on Monday and two more on Wednesday after The Eagle had gone to press, bringing the cumulative total to 299, with 19 considered potentially active. That may not be all the cases of covid-19 in the county with the availability of at-home tests. "Many people who are using home tests don't report on them and don't follow positives up with PCR tests," Wahkiakum Health and Human Services Director Chris Bischoff said. "So we're...
CETA, or the Clean Energy Transformation Act, has become a hot topic of conversation, General Manager Dan Kay told the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners on Tuesday. “It has two components,” Kay said. “It has a power supply side that the governor signed into law where we are transitioning into 100 percent renewable or non-carbon emitting energy by 2045. The second component, which will probably impact us the most, is the low income assistance component.” Low income assistance, or ener...
Some lucky Wahkiakum High School students in Don Cox's classroom participated in a mock trial recently with two lawyers from the Wahkiakum Prosecuting Attorney's office and a District Court Judge from Longview presiding as U.S. Supreme Court Justices. Half of the class took the role of appellants and the other half were respondents, arguing a case that made it all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857: Dred Scott vs. Sanford. "This was a big court case," Cox said. "It was a test case. It...
Photos by Todd Wilson The Mules split games on Monday and Tuesday, bringing their overall record to 9-7, and 4-4 in league. On Monday, the Mules beat Toledo in front of a home crowd 62-61. "It was our first game after our week off, it was definitely a sloppy game, but it was competitive the whole way," Coach Todd Souvenir said. "We moved the ball and got some open looks and Zakk [Carlson] knocked down a three point shot with 19 seconds left to give us the lead. It was a really big win, and more...
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team won’t get much rest this week, with four games in four days, and the district tournament set to begin on Saturday. They split the first two games of the week, bringing the overall record to 13-5, and 7-1 in league. On Monday, the Lady Mules lost their first league game 49-39 to the Pirates in Adna. “Last night was a good example of what happens when you are casual and undisciplined,” Coach Rob Garrett said. “Our girls simply didn’t show up ready to play,...
There were seven new cases of covid-19, this week, with three reported last Thursday and four more on Tuesday, bringing the cumulative total to 294. Of those, 24 are considered potentially active. The risk of contracting covid-19 in Washington is very high, according to the press release from Wahkiakum Health and Human Services, and they confirm that there is “active community spread” in the county. WHHS says that vaccines are the best possible protection from covid-19, and that boosters are rec...
By Diana Zimmerman Covid-19 seems to be causing staffing issues everywhere right now, including the Wahkiakum Clinic, which was closed last Thursday and Friday. “All of our clinics are just getting slammed with covid-19,” Cowlitz Family Health Center (CFHC) Director Jim Coffee said on Monday. “Most of our staff are vaccinated and are just being taken down by the omicron virus. It’s been pretty devastating. We’ve had a couple clinics that have been closed off and on because we don’t have any st...
There are three variations of homelessness that Wahkiakum Health and Human Services Community Services Manager Julie Johnston sees in Wahkiakum County. There are those who are literally on the streets, or living in cars, without easy access to anything; another version the school usually sees are families doubled or tripled up in housing, or couch-surfing, where they might have a roof over their heads but it’s not permanent, or it may be more than one place over and over. The third, or what J...
The following is a summary of the 2020 census of Wahkiakum County, completed by the United Census Bureau. The total population on April 1, 2020 was 4,422 compared to 3,978 a decade earlier, an increase of 444 people. Females make up 50.1 percent of the population. While 33 percent of the population is 65 and older, 17.1 percent of the population is under the age of 18, and 3.5 percent are under the age of 5. According to race, 91.2 percent of Wahkiakum County is white, 0.7 percent is black or Af...
Photos by Todd Wilson The Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team ran into a couple of the toughest teams in the league last week and dropped two more games, bringing their record to 8-6 overall, and 3-3 in league. They started with a trip to Kalama on Wednesday to take on the number one team in the league and lost 71-51. "They are a solid team," Coach Todd Souvenir said. "They are very physical; they are very good on the defensive end, and they rebound really well. They definitely came out and too...
Last Thursday, the Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team traveled to Napavine and beat the Tigers 56-41. “We struggled a bit to play our style early, but I was really happy with how the girls responded after half,” Coach Rob Garrett said. “I thought Miya [Kerstetter] stepped up big time knocking down some huge shots and Emmie [Niemela] continued to dominate the boards and get us some easy buckets inside. "Overall Napavine is an up and coming team; it was nice to see our girls come toget...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners learned there would be a second round of disconnects this week, listened to reports, and approved a cost of living increase for their new general manager on Tuesday. General Manager Dan Kay spoke about how the recent weather had affected the PUD. “Mother Nature has really been directing our attention,” he said, “from snow, wind, rains, floods, landslides.” Kay said that there had been challenges in East Valley and along Altoona/Pillar Rock Road br...
The Wahkiakum County Port 1 Board of Commissioners met briefly last Thursday to do a little housekeeping and talk about potential business. Commissioners authorized Port Manager Jackie Lea to sign paperwork to resolve a boundary issue with the Town of Cathlamet pending a final survey of the former sewer pond property, of which both entities have a share. They also waived their compensation for any special meetings and authorized a resolution to adopt one change to Port 1 commissioner district...
The Wahkiakum School District Board of Directors covered a lot of ground Tuesday, talking about transportation, the coming levy, the lawsuit, transportation, and more. Superintendent Brent Freeman was most animated when he began to talk about witnessing the school’s robotics team participation in a regional competition, which pitted Wahkiakum against some students from bigger school districts. “It was an absolutely wonderful experience,” Freeman said. “It was amazing to see the kids come to...
There were 11 more cases of covid-19 reported in the past week, with four on Thursday and seven on Tuesday, bringing the cumulative total to 287 in Wahkiakum County. Of those, 19 are considered potentially active. “We have had a lot of cases in the past few weeks in Wahkiakum,” Wahkiakum Health and Human Services Director Chris Bischoff said. “There has not been a centralized source for these. "It looks like nationally, in Washington, and in surrounding counties like cases overall are start...
Photos by Todd Wilson The Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team added two wins this week bringing their overall record to 8-4 and their league record to 3-1. The Mules managed to hold on to a late lead in Toutle Lake on Thursday to beat the Ducks 53-50. "Both teams got out to a slow start offensively," Coach Todd Souvenir said. "We struggled to get into any kind of rhythm throughout the game, but in the fourth quarter, luckily, we got things going and got a couple shots to fall and got some...
Photos by Ian Brandon The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team continues to dominate with two more wins this week, bringing their record to 12-4 overall and 6-0 in league. The team traveled to Toutle Lake on Thursday and easily beat the Ducks 59-17. "I thought the girls played great aggressive defense all the way through the game against Toutle," Coach Rob Garrett said. "The girls also attacked the basket hard, which has been a big focus. Reigha [Niemeyer] and Megan [Leitz] in particular were...
Friday update: On Thursday, Wahkiakum County Health and Human Services reported four more case for county residents, bringing the total to 280. Fifteen are considered active. ----------- Six more cases of covid-19 were reported this week, with five on Monday and one on Tuesday, bringing the cumulative total in Wahkiakum County to 276, with 11 cases considered potentially active. The six cases are not really related to each other, Wahkiakum Health and Human Resources Director Chris Bischoff...
The Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team spent more time on the road to Forks than they did on the Spartan home court on Monday, but they made the trip count, coming home with a win, 60-52. “I don’t know the exact time frame we were on the bus, but it felt like a good five hours,” Coach Todd Souvenir said. “When the refs tipped the ball up in the air, we definitely looked like we’d been on the bus for five hours.” The Mules, who had been behind by as much as 20 points, were down by 17 at the h...
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team finished the week with two more wins, bringing their overall record to 9-4. On Monday, the Lady Mules beat Winlock at home 61-29. “I thought it was a testament to just how far this team has come,” Coach Rob Garrett said. “I’ve been a little hard on them lately simply because I see what they can become and I felt as though we were settling and not playing with all out effort. We weren’t perfect by any means tonight, but we were great. The girls played wi...
There has been a kind of cycle of expansion and contraction at the Little Island Creamery in recent years, as the owners and their employees have sought to define and refine their mission, their dreams, and ultimately their future on Puget Island. The new Little Island Kitchen and Meeting Rooms is just one more manifestation of their endeavor. Intially, owner Dick McDonald and his sister, Kathleen, planned to build a store on the property to sell their cheeses and butter, as well as other...
