Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week: Thursday, high school track at Ocosta at 3:30 p.m. and baseball at Lake Quinault at 4:00 p.m.; Friday, softball with Ocosta in Naselle at 4 p.m.; Saturday, high school track at Centralia Freshman Invite; Monday, middle school track - sub league at South Bend at 3:30 p.m.; Tuesday, fast pitch with Montesano in Naselle at 4 p.m.; Wednesday, fast pitch with Ocosta in Naselle at 4 p.m. Go Comets! The Naselle Drama Club will be performing three more shows this weekend for thos...
The Eagle and TEAM Electronics are pleased to announce the ninth annual photo contest, A Day in The Life of Wahkiakum County and Naselle. We invite Wahkiakum County and Naselle residents to shoot a photo on Saturday, May 6, 2017, in the Wahkiakum County and Naselle areas and enter on or before May 12, 2017, to participate. Three division winners will be selected and earn $50 prizes. Winners and honorable mention photos will be published in The Wahkiakum County Eagle’s special edition, The Focus on Wahkiakum, on May 25. Divisions will be: 1. C...
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday voted to send shoreline management permit for a coalition of upriver ports back to the county planning commission. The permit would allow the ports' dredging crews to cross the East Sunny Sands beach and dike road to access a dredge disposal site on Island farmland. The planning commission had sent the permit to the board of commissioners for final action, but after weeks of discussion before the board on the merits of interior disposal site, planners asked that the board return the permit for further...
Wahkiakum County officials continue to wrestle with issues surrounding their effort to set up a long term dredge spoils disposal program for eroding beaches. Acting as commissioners for flood zone control districts (FZCD), commissioners are applying to the US Army Corps of Engineers for permits to set a 10-year beach nourishment program. As part of the program, commissioners need each property owner in a district to sign a right-of-entry easment to allow dredging crews to work on their shoreline property, and there are some property owners who...
Can we believe the weatherman? Are we going to get a drying out period? Cross our fingers for at least a bit of respite from the muddy fields and driveways this weekend. News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the coming week: Thursday, high school track at Raymond at 3:30 p.m., baseball at Mary M. Knight at 4 p.m. and fast pitch in Naselle with Taholah at 4 p.m.; Saturday, high school track at Shelton Invite; Monday, baseball and fast pitch with South Bend in Naselle at 3 p.m.; Tuesday, high school track at Pacific County Invite in Ilwaco at...
The success of Wahkiakum County's effort to replenish sand on eroding beaches at Cape Horn and Puget Island depends, in large part, on obtaining permits to do the work and easements from landowners so dredging crews can work along their waterfronts. On Tuesday, county commissioners said the permitting process is nearing completion, but they still don't have all the needed right-of-entry easements. Commissioners have set up four flood control zone districts, one at Cape Horn and three on Puget Island. For a district to be authorized as a dredge...
The Cathlamet town council dealt with a construction setback dilemma when it met Monday. Linda Barth asked the council to change an ordinance setting for parameters for rebuilding when a building is partially destroyed. She explained that her family is trying to sell a small house sitting on a small lot on Maple Street. Years ago, a neighbor constructed a garage and put the back wall three feet from their building, which is closer than the town's building ordinance allows. A sale is pending but being held up when the lending bank learned that...
Trust. There doesn't seem to be a lot of trust going around when it comes to proposals to deposit dredge spoils on eroding Wahkiakum County shorelines. Nearly 50 residents of the county's four flood control zone districts (FCZD), most from Puget Island, gathered Tuesday for a town hall meeting hosted by county commissioners Dan Cothren and Mike Backman (Commissioner Blair Brady was on the road to another meeting). Commissioners had called the meeting to review dredge deposit proposals and answer questions from FCZD residents. Commissioners are...
The Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office this week is installing a box in the courthouse to collect old, unused prescription drugs. County staff will also hold a public event to collect old drugs on April 29, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the lobby of the courthouse in Cathlamet. The installation of the box will allow people to dispose of unused prescriptions without waiting for annual events which the county has held. "We have been working cooperatively with Health and Human services on getting our drug take back set up on a permanent basis,"...
Sports calendar for the Naselle Comets teams this week include: Thursday, baseball and fast pitch at Wishkah at 4 p.m.; Friday, high school track at Chehalis Activator Invite; Saturday, high school track at Chehalis Activator Invite, baseball with Mary M Knight in Naselle at noon; Monday, fast pitch at Oakville at 4 p.m.; Wednesday, middle school track meet at South Bend at 3:30 p.m., fast pitch at Montesano at 4 p.m. Go Comets! Students will be released at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday for in-service. Just a head’s up for some great entertainment b...
Wahkiakum County commissioners will host a town hall meeting next Tuesday, 6 p.m., in their meeting room to discuss issues relating to their efforts to establish a beach nourishment process eroding shorelines. Erosion is threatening private property at Cape Horn and East Sunny Sands on Puget Island. They are in the midst of finishing the permitting process for their proposed 10-year program; they're negotiating with the last of property owners who are reluctant to sign easements allowing dredging crews to work along their shorelines, and they'r...
Can Wahkiakum County and the coalition of upriver ports join forces for the benefit of both in their efforts to conduct dredging projects? The two groups will hold a town hall meeting April 18 in Cathlamet to discuss their goals and the possibility of combining their separate projects. County commissioners hosted representatives of Ports of Kalama, Woodland and Longview in a workshop Tuesday to begin a group discussion. Commissioner Dan Cothren, who had set up the meeting, started by explaining that he had invited the port officials so citizens...
Washington's sheriffs met in late March, and according to Wahkiakum County Sheriff Mark Howie, much of the discussion concerned "the topic of immigration enforcement as well as our response to the new ‘shaming' list the federal administration has sent out." US Attorney General Jeff Sessions had issued a statement saying the Trump Administration would consider withholding federal grants and other funding from cities and states that declared themselves sanctuary cities and which would refuse to hold people charged with misdemeanors or even no c...
Vacations are wonderful, but it is always incredibly good to be home. So sorry that I didn’t bring warmer and drier weather back with me, but I must say I took much nicer weather down to southern California with me. The temps never got over 79 degrees and it was overcast most of the time - perfect. By the way, I hate the desert and would never live there. Family is important enough to visit though. Coming home to real trees and everything green is the best. I spent time with two of my nephews and their families and was happy to spend extra t...
Wahkiakum County commissioners continued discussions about a dredging program and gave mixed approval to two notices of proposed medical/recreational marijuana retail stores when they met Tuesday. County commissioners also serve as the board of commissioners for four flood control zone districts, and they discussed with constituents the latest developments in their efforts to establish a 10-year dredging program that would place sand on eroding beaches. The US Army Corps of Engineers recently required the county to conduct an archeological surv...
The Cathlamet Town Council voted Monday to lift a moratorium on new development in the Columbia Ridge Estates subdivision, subject to street improvements by the homeowners association. Among other business at the council's monthly meeting on Monday members also barely passed the first reading of a deferred compensation ordinance, planned a revision of its water bill adjustment policy, held a workshop on water and sewer rate analysis, and heard Council Member Andy Lea announce he won't run for re-election to the council this year. Several years...
Naselle Timberland Library has planned a variety of events ranging from children's programs to movie matinees for the months of April and May. Family Movie Matinees are scheduled April 1 and 22 and May 6, all 1-3 p.m. The library will show new releases and provide popcorn; viewers should bring a pillow for seating. Friends of the Naselle Timberland Library meet April 4 and May 2, 6 p.m., to plan library activities, and all participants are welcome. The Books into Movies movie night for teens and adults is held 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays. Films may...
Wahkiakum County commissioners have given guarded support to a bill in the legislature to expand a study of elk hoof root disease. Several years ago, elk with deformed hooves began appearing in southwest Washington herds. Commissioners have pressed the state Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) to identify and eradicate the disease. The department has formed a public interest working group, and its biologists have said the cause is treponema bacteria. However, commissioners, relying on input from Skamokawa resident Boone Mora, a retired docto...
Challenges remain for Wahkiakum County commissioners' plan for a 10-year program to turn four flood control zone districts (FCZD) into dredge spoils sites. Landowners in the zones need to grant right-of-entry easements so that dredging crews can work along their shorelines. After months of wrangling by attorneys, the easements are ready for property owners, but hurdles remain for the program. One hurdle is that not all land owners in a zone may want to grant the easements. Commissioners heard from one of these persons on Tuesday. North Welcome...
Okay. I love the rain, probably more than anyone else around here, but when I see how difficult it is on the newborn calves getting around in the muddy pastures, covered from head to toe in muck, that’s enough rain. Is everyone ready for the "wearin’ o’ the green”? Here’s to a Happy St. Patrick’s Day for all the readers. News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week include: Thursday, high school track at South Bend at 3:30 p.m.; Friday, baseball and fast pitch at Ilwaco at 4 p.m.; Monday, baseball and fastpitch a...
Wahkiakum County commissioners are ready to address one of the major remaining hurdles to establishing a 10-year program for replenishing sand on eroding beaches. The US Army Corps of Engineers Seattle office counsel has approved the long-awaited final wording to right-of-entry easements that landowners need to sign to allow dredge crews to work on their shorelines. In the dredging operation, the dredge pumps sand and water through a pipeline to the beach, where bulldozers spread the sand along the shoreline. Acting as the board of...
Are you ready for that extra hour of daylight? Remember to spring forward on the 12th and set your clock ahead one hour. Mother Nature has certainly been showing her indecision on the weather this past week or so. We have had it all, from snow, to hail, to rain and wind, thundershowers and some beautiful sunshine with rainbows. Ahhh, living in the Northwest. News from Naselle: Spring sports are here. This week’s calendar for the Naselle Comet teams includes: Saturday, baseball with Wahkiakum in Naselle at 4 p.m.; Wednesday, fastpitch with I...
Donald Trump to the rescue? Frustrated by the slow pace of bureaucracy, local residents and officials are looking for help in all places in their quest to establish a beach nourishment program at Cape Horn and on Puget Island. The permitting process has made some progress; last week the county planning department recommended approval of the county's own shoreline management conditional use permit for the project, and on Tuesday, the board of commissioners quickly gave their approval. However, Commissioner Dan Cothren could report no progress...
It’s hard to tell whether Mother Nature wants it to be Spring or remain Winter. One day sun, then rain and snow. Last Saturday was a gorgeous day, and my sister happened to have the day off, so we decided to have lunch at the Grays River Cafe. After a yummy cheeseburger, we took a drive out Altoona-Pillar Rock Road. We drove some distance and spotted a car parked on the side of the road. As we approached, we noticed three unusual animal buddies coming towards the two guys next to their car. It was a friendly little brown and white goat (who c...
Wahkiakum county commissioners voted 2-1 Tuesday to proceed with the purchase of land for affordable housing and office development. The county's Department of Health and Human Services has been working for nearly two years to purchase the property from the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. The purchase price is $123,353.08, plus closing costs, and will be paid from county funds raised specifically for housing assistance. The parcel of land is located adjacent to the new Town of Cathlamet wastewater treatment plant on SR 4. Chris Holmes,...
