Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments (CWCOG) invites the public to comment on the draft Integrated Metropolitan/Regional Transportation Plan (M/RTP). The M/RTP is a planning document that establishes the strategic framework for meeting the existing and future transportation needs of the Longview-Kelso-Rainier Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and the Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Planning Organization (SWRTPO). The SWRTPO covers a five-county area, including Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Pacific and Wahkiakum...
The onset of cool and moist weather has led agencies to end bans on outdoor burning. The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on September 25 announced that the statewide burn ban on DNR-protected lands has been rescinded. Fire danger has been reduced by the recent rainfall and moderating temperatures. On Friday, Wahkiakum County officials announced the county's ban on outdoor burning would end October 1. The county's announcement said, "Effective 12:01 a.m.., Wednesday, October 1, 2014, officials from Wahkiakum County will...
The state Board of Natural Resources on September 2 authorized the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to transfer about 66 acres of forestland, managed for the benefit of Pacific and Wahkiakum counties, into conservation status. The parcels were selected because each has timber harvest restrictions related to the endangered marbled murrelet. “Today’s unanimous action by the Board of Natural Resources shows how the State Forest Trust Land Replacement Program is working to support struggling rural timber economies while pro...
Wahkiakum County's WSU Cooperative Extension is presenting a program about food preservation. "Preserve the Taste of Summer" is a series of eight online lessons for the in-home consumer who wants to learn about food safety and preservation. Topics range from canning basics to advanced canning and from pickled and fermented foods to drying and freezing foods. Lessons start September 10 and finish September 17. Consumers may view the lessons at the Wahkiakum Community Network Community Center in the Cathlamet library building. Sessions run from...
The heavy lift vessel Blue Marlin passed up the Columbia to Portland on Sunday carrying a drydock. Built in The Netherlands, the ship is 224.8 meters long and 63.1 meters wide....
At their January 21 meeting, members of the Cathlamet Town Council began identifying topics they want to address in 2014. One will be staffing levels for the Public Works Department. Public Works Director Duncan Cruickshank reported department staff recently has had a hard time completing all tasks because of illnesses. He added that the department operates seven days a week. Monday through Friday, staff are working around town and at the water and sewer plants, and on the weekends, they have a six hour day at the water and sewer plants....
Wahkiakum County Assessor Bill Coons this week pressed his request to the county board of commissioners for an increase in staffing. To conform to a new state law, the assessor's office is switching from a cycle of revaluing county property every four years to revaluing every year. That switch requires more work than the present staff can accomplish, he said Tuesday. Coons has recommended promoting his half-time residential appraiser/clerk to full time appraiser. That would give the office two appraisers; Coons also has the certification....
Effective 12:01 a.m., Friday, August 23, officials from Wahkiakum County are enacting a ban on all outdoor burning. As of August 23, all land clearing, residential and silvicultural burning is banned until further notice. This burn ban does not apply to federally managed land within Wahkiakum County. Recreational campfires are allowed if built in improved fire pits in designated campgrounds, such as those typically found in local, county and state parks and in commercial campgrounds. On private land campfires are permitted with the...
Cathlamet’s Bald Eagle Days are here. Now in its 32nd year, the three-day festival starts Friday afternoon and runs through Sunday afternoon. Highlights include the traditional parade, street fair, fireworks show and wooden boat festival. Action starts Friday afternoon with a sidewalk art contest from 2:30-5:30 p.m. and live music, first at the Two Islands Farm Market on Puget Island and later at the Tsuga Art Gallery on Main Street. Tsuga will celebrate its second anniversary Friday afternoon with a reception that will include live music by t...
The Wahkiakum County Sheriff’s Office responded to two different rescue situations on Easter Sunday. Both involved the warm spring weather and the cold Columbia River. Shortly before 2 p.m. on Sunday, the Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call about a 45-year-old woman that was stranded on a piling in the Columbia River. She had been kayaking close to a jetty near the mouth of Birnie Slough in the Cathlamet Channel. The kayak sunk and the kayaker was left clinging to the jetty. Her companion lef...
The Columbia River Compact met April 1 to consider additional non-Indian mainstem commercial fishing periods. The compact took no action, meaning no fishery was set. The Columbia River remains closed to commercial fishing. The compact will meet next Monday to consider non-Indian mainstem commercial fishing periods Compact biologists had recommended a commercial opening on Tuesday. Based on the low number of steelhead encountered, the increasing number of chinook per drift and the April 2 sport angling closure, staff recommended a 6.5 hour...
Wahkiakum County commissioners handled a variety of business when they met Tuesday. Commissioners agreed to hold a workshop with the Wahkiakum County Fair Board on March 19 to discuss employment of the fair manager. The fair manager position has been funded with Wahkiakum County Interlocal Cooperative funds, working through WSU Cooperative Extension, but that arrangement ended this week. Commissioners and other parties are considering if there's another arrangement that would allow flexibility in the manager's monthly hours. “I am waiting to h...
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday declined to endorse a plan to address the eroding Steamboat Slough Dike on the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge for the Columbian White-tailed Deer. The Columbia is cutting into the bank and undermining the asphalt of the county road on top. Geotechnical engineers have warned that a large piece of earth could slide away at any time, carrying the dike and road with it and flooding the refuge. The dike isn't part of the US Army Corps of Engineers' dike maintenance program, and neither the...
Wahkiakum County commissioners considered a variety of issues when they met Tuesday. Issue: Data to support additional sand placement by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers along Pancake Point on Puget Island. Commissioners authorized Public Works Director Pete Ringen to contract with Coast and Harbor Engineering to survey water depths off Puget Island's Pancake Point. On April 3, the board approved an agreement with Coast and Harbor for permitting support work associated with future sand placement in the Pancake Point vicinity. In his written report,...
Law enforcement authorities are investigating their second arson fire to occur in Wahkiakum County within eight days. Officers have been looking for leads into who set a fire in the bleachers at the Wahkiakum High School football stadium on March 18. On Sunday, a long vacant house on Altoona-Pillar Rock Road burned in a fire that is also suspected of being arson. The old house, a landmark because of its high garage doors just across the road from the Grays River, had been unoccupied for years, said Wahkiakum County Deputy Sheriff Hans York....
