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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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If you ask Stacey Lane, it was serendipity that brought her to Wahkiakum County. "I don't necessarily believe in luck," she said. "I love being in Cathlamet. It's probably the most hidden little gem of the state. I know one of the challenges is that it's off the beaten path, but that's one of its charms, and the people are amazing." Lane is the new director for the Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce. She joined the organization as the assistant director part time last year, before stepping into the...
As of Wednesday, the number of covid-19 cases in Wahkiakum County was up to 97, with 16 cases considered active. According to the Washington Department of Health, 1,445 tests had been conducted so far. Pacific County's total was up to 736, with seven cases considered active. Nine people have died because of covid-19. There have been 4,156 cases of covid-19 in Cowlitz County with 103 considered active. They are attributing 49 deaths to the virus. Across the river, there have been 1,232 cases in...
Human skeletal remains were discovered on KM Mountain on February 19. Coroner Dan Bigelow collected and delivered the remains to Washington State Forensic Anthropologist Katherine Taylor in King County to be examined and hopefully identified. “Taylor is a rock,” Bigelow said. “Thank goodness; with her help, there hasn’t been an unidentified set of remains that has been found in Wahkiakum County in the last 12-15 years that has not been identified.” “This one is going to take a while,” Big...
Wahkiakum senior Ellie Wiltse-Hiatt set the pace for runners at the Mules’ opening cross country meet at Toledo last Thursday, taking first place with a time of 23:36 in a 5,000 meter race against 14 other runners from four schools. Junior Kimberlee Watkins finished in 11th place with a time of 33:32, and sophomore Kamryn Watkins finished in 15th place with a time of 40:19. Ninth grader Nathan Garrett represented the Mules in the boys’ 5,000 meter race, taking 10th place in a field of 16 wit...
The Wahkiakum Mules volleyball team won three of four matches this week, to bring their record to 4-1. Last Thursday, they beat Winlock at home in three sets, 25-14, 25-14, and 25-20. Jansi Merz had 11 kills and Jordyn Watson added seven kills and was strong on serve receive, Coach Kayli Hurley said. Teylor Sauer and Shelby McEneny had five kills apiece and MJ Neves served five aces. "This was a good team effort and we really focused on improving our energy and hype," Hurley said. "The girls...
Jordyn Watson, who has been attending school in Wahkiakum County since the fifth grade, seems at home in her position as an outside hitter for the Mule volleyball team. Prior to her freshman year, she'd been central to team play as a setter, she said, but Coach Kayli Hurley decided to move her to the outside position instead, and she's been racking up kills ever since. "I love hitting," Jordyn said. If you've ever connected a well timed strike to the ball while simultaneously gaining altitude,...
Daniel Martin is ready to go. He's been studying German, and along with other members of the Wahkiakum High School German Club, started fundraising last year for the biannual trip to Germany, set for this year. "I don't know if you know," Daniel said, "but something came up and we were not going to be able to do that anymore. Something about a pandemic." While that particular trip to Europe might be out for now, he now has a passport, and the whole world will one day open up again. Daniel plays...
"I know what I'm doing, but I don't know what I'm doing," Jenna Mellis said. "That's what I like about life. Surprises." There are a lot of surprises when you are one of eight kids, and four of them are brothers. She's learned a lot from them. "I learned that I have to be sarcastic with them," Jenna said. "I have to dish it back. If you can't handle the heat, then go somewhere else. I also learned that if you dish it, you have to take the hits." They also taught her that no matter how hard the...
On Tuesday, General Manager Dave Tramblie gave an overview of the utility’s response to this weekend’s winter storm at the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioner’s meeting. “The guys started at 11 p.m. on Friday night,” he said. “The other crew came out at about 2 a.m. on Saturday. At 3 a.m., we lost Bonneville. The guys responded to the substations and were told to wait for a Bonneville Power Administration switchman to arrive. I got there at 3:15 a.m., and in no uncertain terms I mad...
On Wednesday four more people in Wahkiakum County tested positive for covid-19, bringing the total to 87. According to the Washington Department of Health, 1,354 people have been tested, three people have been hospitalized, and 1,348 doses of the vaccine have been administered. In Cowlitz County, 4,072 people have tested positive for covid-19, with 121 cases considered active. They are attributing 47 deaths to covid-19. Pacific County was reporting 729 cases with 14 of those considered active....
In an effort to improve kayakers' experience coming in and out of the Elochoman Slough Marina, Wahkiakum County Port 1 decided to provide an alternate place for them to enter and exit the water. The kayak launch has been moved away from the boat launch to the commercial dock, which can be accessed by the rock pit, and which will benefit Columbia River Kayaking, which sometimes guides kayak trips from the marina. "That will give them their own spot for staging," Commissioner Scott Anderson said....
This year marks the 75th anniversary of Wahkiakum VFW Post No. 5297, whose charter was signed on January 7, 1946, after young servicemen, who had returned to the community from foreign locales after World War II decided to form a local branch of the VFW, or Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. Cathlamet resident Tom Irving, who is 98, was one of the charter members. “People wonder why there were so many of us,” Irving said. “We had people that worked down at the lumber mill and at the box facto...
It's been a long wait for Wahkiakum athletes, but competition finally began again on Tuesday. The Lady Mules volleyball team made the most of their first outing, a home opener against Morton-White Pass, who were also playing their first game of the season. Wahkiakum won easily in three sets, 25-11, 25-7, and 25-15, according to Coach Kayli Hurley. Jansi Merz had nine kills, and Megan Leitz and Jordyn Watson added five kills apiece. MJ Neves had 15 assists. Arrow Rose served seven aces, and...
Hannah Musick wants to be a doctor. "That's the path," she said with certainty. She got hooked on the idea of medicine in eighth grade, and her passion for the notion has only grown. "Now I'm too stubborn to let it go," she said. Things come pretty easy to Hannah, and so she looks for academic challenges. After earning straight A's her sophomore year, she decided she needed more rigor, and signed up for Running Start, to simultaneously earn a high school diploma and an Associates Degree from...
Kaden Anderson is in business. He started his first lemonade stand in elementary school, and has been growing the profits from that venture ever since. It turns out that while his classmates were reading Harry Potter, he'd picked up a book on trading stocks. "I've always loved business and learning about it," Kaden said. "I love the idea of investing. I love seeing growth compound. There really is a correspondence between risk and return, so the more you put up, the more you can make, but a lot...
Kaleo Silva is headed to Washington State University in the fall to study mechanical engineering. “I think the thing that made me want to do engineering was taking physics last year,” he said. “I enjoy math, but when you get to higher level maths like calculus, you are considering hypothetical situations, but physics has real world applications.” It was those real world applications that drew him to engineering, but it was a panel of engineers working in the different specialties who spoke t...
There were no new cases of covid-19 in Wahkiakum County in the last week, with the total standing at 81 cases. Nine cases are currently considered active. The Washington Department of Health is reporting that five people in the county have been hospitalized, that 1,301 tests have been conducted so far, and 1,063 vaccine doses have been given. Pacific County had five additional cases on Monday, bringing their total to 723, with 29 considered active. Nine people have died. Cowlitz County has had 3...
Last Wednesday morning, a wall of boxes lined the sidewalk outside St. Catherine Catholic Church on Columbia Street. Volunteers Tom Gartski, Mike Swift, John Doumit, John Doumit, Jr., Fred Johnson, and Jim Mendoza were ready for the host of people who were arriving to pick up coffee, fresh produce and other staples provided by the food bank the church runs in conjunction with St. Vincent de Paul. "The drive up service is new," Gartski said, "and things are going great." The food bank served...
Last Saturday, volunteers from the Cathlamet Fire Department and Emergency Medical Services, Skamokawa Fire Department, and Puget Island Fire Department spent the day training at a practice burn hosted by the District 4 Fire Department at the old Schubert home on Elochoman Valley Road. The home, which had been evacuated after being threatened by landslides, was donated by Hancock Forest Industries for the training, District 4 Chief Randy Hoven said. "Periodically we get houses like this,"...
Mackenzie Lawlor's world is wide open. The future is a mystery to this young woman, but she is up for the ride. The only certainty is a plan to take a gap year after she graduates, just to work, and "learn how the world is." After that, she might attend Lower Columbia College and study psychology. "I'll have to see where the world takes me," Mackenzie said. Kyle Hurley is her favorite teacher at Wahkiakum High School. The day starts with him in leadership class, where she and her classmates...
The southern accent is largely undetectable, but as Jerzie Coleman became more animated, the y'alls started flying. It was fun to hear, as were some of the descriptions of the cuisine she's been missing. "The food here," she said. "I don't know how y'all survive. I'm sorry, but it's really bland. What's the key thing over here? Game and fish? Hunting is really big down in the south too, but stuff would have flavor. It would have some kick to it. It was so good, but it was really bad for...
With General Manager Dave Tramblie’s resignation on the table, the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners wondered Tuesday whether they should limit candidates for a successor to strictly in-house or consider a broader search. “I think this utility has done a good job of building good relationships with our community, and the people we have on staff have taken ownership and responsibility,” Tramblie said. “I think that moving forward, the most seamless transition would be to hire from wi...
On Tuesday, Wahkiakum Health and Human Services reported that six more Wahkiakum County residents had tested positive for covid-19, bringing the total to 81. Of those, 16 are considered active. When Washington State went into shut down in March 2020, the average number of new cases per day was 193. In January 2021, the average number of new cases per day was 1,987. “Everybody is whining about not opening up fast enough and these are our numbers,” Bischoff said. “What has changed? Our toler...
A pet food drive at the Puget Island Fire Station on Saturday was more successful than the Wahkiakum Animal Advocates Group (WAAG) volunteers could have imagined. So successful that their next pet food drive, which was tentatively set for March, may be postponed a little longer. They don't have the storage space to do another drive too soon, Treasurer Lorrie Fink said, but when the Helping Hand food bank stocks get low, they will plan another event. "Everybody has a soft spot for a pet," Fink...
Paige Mace If you are looking for Paige Mace, she'll be in one of two places: the gym or the woods near her home. Paige picked up a basketball the first year she could, and has been stealing, looking for the assist, and driving fearlessly to the basket ever since. "I play basketball for 12 out of 12 months a year," she said, when asked about other sports or hobbies. As an eighth grader, Mace got called up to the Mule varsity team. She counts herself lucky to have played with Peyton Souvenir,...
