Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Thursday update: Challenger Gene Strong took an six-vote lead over incumbent county Commissioner Blair Brady in the latest count of Wahkiakum County general election votes. After the Thursday morning count, Strong, the former county sheriff, led Brady 1,188 to 1,182. The next count will be at 12 noon Nov. 27. There were three ballots left to count as of Thursday afternoon. In the county's other close race, incumbent Bill Coons led challenger Brian McClain 1,239 to 1,131 in the election for county assessor. Also,incumbent Dist. 19 Rep. Jim...
Wahkiakum County commissioners by a 2-1 vote Tuesday approved an increase in the match they'll provide for a feasibility study of county wide broadband capacity. A community-wide group spearheaded by Wahkiakum PUD Commissioner Gene Healy has formed to seek broadband. Recently the group asked the PUD to apply for grant funding to undertake the feasibility study, and the group asked Wahkiakum County to guarantee the local match for the grant, which could total as much as $75,000, depending on the scope of work involved. Commissioners had...
News from Naselle: The Naselle Volleyball team begins it’s quest for a State title (today) Thursday in Yakima vs. Selkirk at 11:45 a.m. and a second game at 6:45 p.m. Girls, you have played amazing games this year. Keep it coming and bring home the title. Go Comettes! On Friday, the football team will meet in Naselle with Taholah at 7 p.m. for a state playoff game. Go Comets! More sports on this week's calendar: Tuesday, middle school girls basketball at Pe Ell at 5:45 p.m.; Wednesday, middle school girls basketball with Willapa Valley in N...
Initiative 1631 concerning carbon tax for pollution reduction Wahkiakum County results: Yes 614, no 1,484, statewide yes 43.7 percent, no 56.3 percent. Pacific County results: Yes 2,463 no 4,892. Initiative 1634 concerning taxation of certain items for human consumption Wahkiakum: Yes 1,116, no 991; statewide yes 54.77 percent, no 45.23 percent. Pacific: Yes 4,408, no 2,923. Initiative 1639 concerning firearms Wahkiakum: Yes 767, no 1,360; statewide yes 60.38 percent, no 39.62 percent. Pacific: Yes 3,389, no 3,982. Initiative 940 concerning...
The Wahkiakum Mule football team is back in the state playoffs for the first time in five years. The young, 5-5 Mules controlled the ball to upset the 6-4 Raymond Seagulls 22-10 last Friday in Aberdeen. The Mules ran the ball 49 times for 253 yards and added 97 yards on six completed passes while holding the Gulls to 80 yards on 18 runs and 19 yards on one completed pass. "Our offense just controlled the ball," commented Mule Coach Eric Hansen. "Fifty-four of their 80 rushing yards came on one...
Wahkiakum county officials this week wrapped up initial steps in preparing their preliminary budgets for 2019. County commissioners met with department heads and others to go over requests line by line. Officials usually express concern that revenue for the Current Expense Fund, which finances most courthouse offices, will be insufficient, but this year they’re saying the picture looks promising. In the past couple years, the county commission has diverted funds from the County Road Levy to Current Expense to cover shortfalls, but that s...
As voters were preparing to return their vote by mail ballots this past week, a candidate for District 19 state representative faced late challenges. After a news story in the Chinook Observer reported Democrat incumbent Brian Blake has paid former staff member and short term legislator J.D. Rosetti $65,000 for campaign printing and advertising services, Republican opponent Joel McEntire accused Blake of cronyism by channeling an unnecessary amount of campaign funds into his friend’s new business. Rosetti began operating a start-up Minuteman P...
Once again, it is so good to be home. Though it was not exactly a pleasure trip, I was able to spend some quality time with my kids and grand kids. News from Naselle: Sports schedule this coming week for the Naselle Comet teams: Today (Thursday), District IV 1B Finals at Tumwater at 7:30 p.m.; Tuesday, middle school girls basketball in Naselle with Raymond at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! Students will have an early release day on Wednesday, the 7th for staff inservice. Another coming blood drive at Valley Bible Church, and your chance to give a...
The Wahkiakum Mule football team got back on the winning track with a 41-22 win over the Winlock Cardinals last Friday. The win secured a third place finish for the Mules in the Central League's River Division and put them in a crossover playoff today (Thursday) with the Raymond Seagulls, second place finisher in the Coastal Division. At Raymond's suggestion, the 7 p.m. game has been moved to Stewart Field in Aberdeen to avoid the Gulls' muddy field. "They're a good team," Mule Coach Eric Hansen said of the Gulls. "They have two good linemen...
Wahkiakum County Commissioner Dan Cothren and Dr. Boone Mora, a retired public health officer living in Skamokawa, traveled to Toutle last week to meet Dr. Margaret Wild, who has been selected to lead Washington State University’s research into hoof rot disease in elk. The disease causes hooves to grow abnormally and become infected. Eventually, the animal will become too lame to forage and will die. Efforts by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to identify and address the disease have had mixed results, and the state legislature i...
The general election campaigning continues to boil and bubble. Among last Friday's bulk mail was an ad urging District 19 voters to write in Teresa Purcell's name instead of voting for either Republican Jim Walsh or Erin Frasier for district representative. Rose Lundy and The Daily News of Longview did a good job of following up on the mailer. Briefly, it come from either Walsh, Fraiser or Purcell. In fact, Purcell told The Daily News she is campaigning for Fraiser and is not a write-in candidate. Instead, the mailer came from a Republican...
Commissioners of Port District 2 adopted a budget for 2019 when they met October 16 at Skamokawa Vista Park. In adopting the district budget, Commissioners Lori Scott, Brian O’Connor and Lee Tischer declined to raise local property taxes the 1 percent allowed them under state law. Commissioners said anticipated revenue should cover district expenses. “It’s my opinion that we should not increase taxes,” said Scott, board chair. “I agree with that,” O’Connor said, and Tischer concurred. “And maybe there’s a point where we could not collect as mu...
The Kalama Chinook football team ran over the depleted Wahkiakum Mules for a 55-0 River Division victory last Friday night. Injury problems have hurt the Mules; in the past week they lost two starters to leg injuries and had a third taken from Friday's game for a head injury assessment. "We finished the game with two seniors, one junior and the rest underclassmen on the field," said Mule Coach Eric Hansen. "The season has been brutal." In effect, the Mules had a junior varsity team playing the third ranked Class 2B team in the state. Kalama pil...
An intense four days of slide stabilization work is set for this weekend on SR 4 near the Wahkiakum/Cowlitz county line. The work is scheduled Friday through Monday, with the contractor working around the clock to stabilize a slope that failed July 25. To accommodate the work, the highway may be closed 20 minutes at a time. Washington Department of Transportation spokesperson Celeste Dimichina said Monday the work was planned for a weekend because department personnel felt there would be less...
Members of the Cathlamet town council lifted a building moratorium, took steps to update the Critical Area Ordinace and handled other business when they met Monday. Clerk/Treasurer Kerrie McNally explained the reason for the update--state agencies are demanding current, updated Critical Area Ordinances (CAO) as part of the requirements for funding grant awards. Twice this year the town has lost grant funding awards for street and water main projects because the town's CAO is out of date. To satisfy the state departments of Ecology and...
Our vote-by-mail ballots for the general election will soon arrive, and many people will pick up a pen and fill them out right away. I learned a long time ago to wait till just before election day to make my choice. I had endorsed a candidate in the last issue before the election, and she came to our town and made some statements that changed my mind about her. It was too late for the newspaper but not the ballot. We have an overwhelming number of letters to the editor this week; it’s good that citizens are taking the election seriously. N...
The Toledo Indians overwhelmed the Wahkiakum Mules for a 24-6 Central League football victory last Friday. "I'm proud of the way the boys played," Mule Coach Eric Hansen said of his team. "Injuries hampered us. We had eight sophomores and three seniors out there." After a scoreless first quarter, Toledo took a 7-0 lead in the second quarter with an 18-yard touchdown run. The Mules closed the gap in the third quarter with Evan Quigley scoring on an eight-yard pass from Lucas Brown. [Editor's...
Highway construction projects on SR 4 and the Puget Island bridge will impact traffic next week. Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) contractors plan to finish work at the slide at Stella very soon, and a new slide stabilization project will start Monday near County Line Park. Following are WSDOT announcements that, 1., outline the status of the projects and, 2., address questions about the bridge work. --- WSDOT News: SR 409 Puget Island Bridge closures Oct. 15-19; New slope stabilization work begins near County Line Park...
The body of a man found in the Columbia River last month has been identified as Puget Island resident Joe Abeyta. Clatsop County Medical Examiner Dr. JoAnn Giuliani said late Friday afternoon that fingerprints confirmed the identity. Abeyta lived alone in a waterfront residence on the northern side of Little Island. He was often seen walking with his dog across Puget Island bridge into Cathlamet to collect his mail. At the request of Dr. Giuliani, newspapers published a detailed description of his clothing, and Wahkiakum County Prosecuting...
Wahkiakum County officials covered a lot of issues when the board of county commissioners met Tuesday, but most of it revolved around erosion. County officials have been working for two years to set up a 10-year program with the US Army Corps of Engineers to place sand dredged out of the Columbia River shipping channel along eroding shorelines on Puget Island and at Cape Horn on the mainland. In the summer, officials and property owners had been told it was likely that Cape Horn would have beach nourishment in late September or October, but...
For weeks, I've been waiting for the edition when we didn't have a letter to the editor regarding the election for county assessor. I've wanted to write an opinion column about the race, but I've wanted to avoid giving the impression that I'm responding to a letter. However, there's been so much interest in the race, the letters keep coming, and I don't think there will be a lull before the ballots come out later this month. And so, here it goes. I met Bill Coons not long after he moved to Wahkiakum County in the early 1990's. At that time, he...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for this week: Today (Thursday), high school volleyball in Naselle with WSD at 6 p.m.; Friday, high school football at Darrington at 6 p.m.; Saturday, high school volleyball JV Tournament in Naselle at 8:30 a.m.; Tuesday, middle school football in Naselle with Knappa at 4 p.m., high school volleyball at CAA at 5:30 p.m.; Wednesday, middle school volleyball in Naselle with North Beach at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! The Naselle-Grays River Valley School Board will hold their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday at 6:30...
The Wahkiakum Mules picked up a Central League/River Divison win with a 42-6 win over the host Toutle Lake Ducks last Friday. The Mules had no trouble with the Duck defense; they rushed for 310 yards and gained another 138 in the air as quarterback Lucas Brown completed eight of 11 passes. Brown passed to Quentin Nelson at 7:03 of the first quarter for a 20-yard touchdown play. In the second quarter, Chance Cothren scored on a 35-yard run; Brown scored on a one-yard quarterback sneak and Nelson scored again on a 24-yard pass play. Toutle Lake...
International affairs have caught up with Wahkiakum County's recycling program. The county, subsidized by state funding, operates the program that collects cans, paper, cardboard and plastics. The material is sold to Cowlitz Waste Control with proceeds helping cover county expenses. Waste Control, in turn, sold the plastics to another firm, which exported the material to China. In November, 2017, Chinese buyers cancelled their contracts, saying the plastics were too contaminated with useless...
[Editor: This story has been updated to include more detail.} The body of a man found in the Columbia River last month has been identified as Puget Island resident Joe Abeyta. Clatsop County Dr. JoAnn Giuliani said late Friday afternoon that fingerprints confirmed the identity. Abeyta lived alone in a waterfront residence on the northern side of Little Island. He was often seen walking with his dog across Puget Island bridge into Cathlamet to collect his mail. At the request of Dr. Giuliani, newspapers published a detailed description of his...
