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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Wahkiakum County Port 2 staff are gearing up for their annual Christmas light show, which will open Dec. 1 at Vista Park and continue through the end of the month. The theme this year is penguins, Port 2 Assistant Manager Terina Davis said at their Board ofCommissioners’ meeting Tuesday. “Staff has worked really hard on it,” she added. “We take a lot of pride in it.” Port 1 Manager Sam Shogren said he has been on the road a lot in the last month, continuing to seek funding for improveme...
One Wahkiakum football player and two Naselle coaches received top honors in All League selections recently. Zakk Carlson, the senior quarterback for the Wahkiakum Mules football team this season was named Offensive MVP by coaches in the Central 2B Lower East/West team, as part of their All League Selections. Other Mule selections to All League teams include: First team Wide receiver: Grant Wilson Offensive linemen: Aimon Reavely and Nathan Garrett Defensive lineman: Donovan Watson Linebacker:...
The Wahkiakum County Auditor’s office has received 1,646 ballots so far from 3,490 voters registered in the county, and are waiting for any remaining ballots posted on or before Nov. 7 to trickle in. That’s an “impressive 47 percent turnout,” Election Coordinator Amanda Boehler said, “much higher than many of the larger counties in the state.” “[It] really goes to show that our community cares a lot about who they choose to put into local offices to make the choices that affect our day-to-da...
Some residents in east Cathlamet woke up to water issues Sunday morning. According to the Wahkiakum County Sheriff’s report, at 4:25 a.m., a resident on Irving Street was the first to call, reporting low water pressure and a massive leak from a neighbor’s house that was flooding their own carport. Later, a person on E Street would report they were without water. “Over the next couple hours several calls came in from nearby residents that either experienced problems or were concerned about poten...
Flooding has always been part of the landscape for Gary Burkhalter, who grew up dairy farming with his parents in Grays River. It’s work he continues to do with his wife Susan, along with their children, and includes their grown son, Austin. “Flooding has been here and always will be here,” Burkhalter said. While this natural occurrence really only causes problems once or twice a year, it can be disruptive to all who live and in the Burkhalters’ case, work, in the area. Burkhalter Dairy is locat...
A Longview man died last Friday while hunting with his son in the woods above Skamokawa. The Wahkiakum County Sheriff’s Department received a call at 4:48 p.m. from the son who became concerned when his father did not return to their vehicle. His father was last seen around 7 a.m.; he was 81 and had a heart condition. A search began at 8 p.m. on state land at the end of Middle Valley Road and the man was found less than two hours later, about a quarter mile from the truck, according to U...
Rosburg resident Darrel Trotter was honored by the Marine Corps League Daniel E Crockett Detachment 1228 at their annual ball in Astoria this weekend when he was named Gene Bolstad Law Enforcement Officer of the Year. The award is named for a Washington State Patrol Trooper who died on duty in 1957 while trying to rescue a teenager caught in a strong rip current at Long Beach. Each year it is awarded to an outstanding law enforcement officer in Pacific or Wahkiakum County. "The local veterans...
It seems Cathlamet is becoming a destination for sailing clubs. “We got some good news on another regatta through the Willamette Sailing Club,” Wahkiakum County Port 1 Manager Todd Souvenir told the Port 1 Board of Commissioners last Thursday. If it works out, there could be three regattas this summer, with one in July, one in August, and another one, potentially in early May. Organizers are expected to visit in January to consider logistics. Mackenzie Jones, the administrative assistant for...
While basketball practice began this week, the Naselle Comets football team extended their season a little longer on Saturday with a 78-58 win against Pomeroy in the State 1B tournament. In quarterfinal play this Saturday, November 18, the Comets take on second ranked Wilbur- Creston-Keller at Lions Field in Moses Lake at 12:30 p.m. It’s a loser out game, with the victor continuing on to the semi-finals on November 25....
The results are coming in. Officials counted 1,337 votes on Tuesday night. The next count was scheduled for Wednesday at 5 p.m., after the Eagle went to press. At that time, there were 150 more ballots left to count, and more were likely to arrive in the mail. With 3,490 registered voters in Wahkiakum County, the turnout stood at 38.31 percent on Tuesday. In contested races, incumbent Patty Anderson leads challenger Kandice Merz 783-334 in a bid to hold onto her seat with the Wahkiakum School...
The Town of Cathlamet coffers could receive a big boost by year’s end. Following an executive session at the end of their meeting on Monday, the town council gave a green light to the lease of the town’s cell tower site in Rosedale to a telecommunications company for a period of 50 years, for no less than $500,000, to be paid in full prior to December 31, 2023. Parameters have been approved for the lease, but documents are not yet finalized. “It is my hope that this will help with the many...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners will save some money in coming years with a decision they made on Tuesday to switch their Puget Island Water System plan to something General Manager Dan Kay calls a “swamp.” As he points out, he didn’t come up with the name, which is actually SWSMP, an acronym for Small Water Systems Management Program. Plans are required for water systems like the ones run by Wahkiakum PUD. They identify what the utility needs to maintain or improve their syste...
The Naselle Comets beat Quilcene 48-20 in District 1/2/3/4 1B football on Friday. They will be in Pomeroy this Saturday for the first round of the State 1B tournament to play Pomeroy at 1 p.m. The game will be a season ender for the loser, but the winner will go on to face the number two ranked 1B team in the state, Wilbur-Creston-Keller next weekend in the quarterfinals. The season ended for the Naselle Comet volleyball team this week during the District 4 1B tournament. Despite a three set...
On Saturday, the Pioneer Community Association threw a belated 125th birthday party for the Pioneer Church, which is now known as the Pioneer Center. After a ribbon cutting, PCA President Suzanne Holmes revisited the years of fundraising and renovations, sharing dozens of pictures of the structure, the problems and the solutions, and some of the people who helped along the way. That included Craig Bjorge, whose name joined six others on a plaque recognizing them for "their support and effort...
Moving past their disappointment at the Washington State Supreme Court’s dismissal of their lawsuit, Wahkiakum School District is turning their focus to other avenues of funding. “We are grossly disappointed with the narrow interpretation that the supreme court chose to read our claim with,” Superintendent Brent Freeman recently said at a meeting of the Washington State Parent Teacher Association. “They dismissed our case because they wanted to interpret it as we were asking for sole funding...
A photo taken out of focus is forever destined to remain out of focus. It may tell a story, but is more likely to end up filed under trash than in the newspaper. Fortunately, that doesn't have to hold true for the subject. Our understanding of people comes in sharper and clearer when they feel safe enough or brave enough to share the hidden details of their lives. How lucky we are when that happens. In 2019, Macie Elliott, a Wahkiakum High School senior, forced a Fisherman turnover during the...
The Naselle Comets football team begins their post season this week with a loser out game against Quilcene on Friday at 6 p.m. at home. If they win, they will head to the first round of the state 1B football tournament, scheduled for November 10-11. The Comets beat Quilcene earlier this year, 66-40. They have an 8-1 record and are in second place in the Columbia Valley/PAC-5 league. The Naselle volleyball team began district play earlier this week, beating Oakville in three sets. They followed...
Patty Cakes Cafe & Roasting has new owners but the product and menu created by the original proprietor Patty Vezaldanos will remain unchanged, Kwan and Ross Lofstrom said. "It's a famous brand in the community and people love it," Ross said. "We want to keep the food the same, the coffee, the business." "We're going to add more flavor in the future," Kwan said. More flavor indeed! Plans are in the works to stay open later, incorporating entrees from Kwan's native Thailand for dinner three or...
On Friday, the Wahkiakum Mules football team secured first place in the Central 2B Lower East/West league with a 62-23 win against Ocosta in front of a home crowd. "The kids played well," Coach Ryan Lorenzo said. "The skills guys played really well all night. Defense stepped up and played really good. Special teams came up with a touchdown and two onside kick recoveries. It was a great game to end our regular season." Carlson connected 12 of 17 passes for 307 yards and four touchdowns. He led...
Residents living in the District 4 Fire Department’s coverage area will have an opportunity to vote on a proposed levy increase this November when they receive their ballots, but prior to that, they are invited to attend an open house to learn more about the matter and see where their tax dollars go. Randy Hoven, the Fire Chief for District 4, said that the department’s most recent 10 year bond expired at the end of last year, and now they are hoping to add another $25,000 to their current bud...
The Town of Cathlamet continued to parse out details of the waterfront park design with engineers during a workshop last Monday. “At the last workshop we decided to move forward with a design that did not fill in the lagoons completely because of cost issues, but instead would provide an elevated pad on the westerly side adjacent to the westerly dike, for a picnic shelter,” Mike Johnson, an engineer with Gray and Osborne said. “We’ve further refined that concept in this updated site plan....
The Wahkiakum Mules turned around early season losses to move into first place in the Central 2B Lower East/West league on Friday with a 21-12 win against Rainier. "Defense really played well tonight," Coach Ryan Lorenzo said. "I think they are starting to understand the defensive scheme we are running this year. Offense played really well. We had two turnovers in the red zone that we have to fix. For the most part, the athletes did their jobs and that's all we can ask for. Zakk Carlson had...
The Wahkiakum Mules volleyball team added two more to their loss column by Monday, bringing their record to 0-15 overall. A final game at home on Wednesday, too late for press time, ended their season. Hosting Winlock last Thursday, the Mules got their first set win of the season, but lost the next three to lose the match, despite some close scores. “The girls were pretty disappointed as they felt that with a few tweaks the outcome could have come out with a win for us, but overall it was a g...
The Pioneer Community Association will open the doors of the Cathlamet Pioneer Center, ushering in a new era for Cathlamet’s Pioneer Church as a public meeting venue and arts and performance center. A dedication is in the works for early November, and will honor the last 50 years of fundraising and rehabilitation. According to the President of the PCA, Suzanne Holmes, in 1973, the structure became the first and only building in Cathlamet to join the list of National Register of Historic P...
The Wahkiakum County PUD is awaiting grant funding, and continuing to seek more, in an effort to make more improvements to infrastructure around the county, as well as the security in their own office. They were just awarded a grant from the Department of Health to study the feasibility of a consolidation of the Cathlamet and PUD water systems, or, in other words, what it would mean for the PUD to acquire the town’s water and wastewater systems and customers. “Truly this is to address and mit...
