Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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There are changes ahead for the library at the Grays River Valley Center at Johnson Park, Rosburg. Because of a disagreement over access, Trudy Fredrickson, a founder of the library, has decided to withdraw the 9,000 volumes she furnished the library. "I have made the decision to take my books out of the library," she told the county board of commissioners on Tuesday. "I only want what's mine." The county board appoints the board of directors who manage the center. Commissioner Mike Backman is county commission's representative to the center's...
Wahkiakum County commissioners handled a variety of business when they met Tuesday on topics ranging from beach nourishment to weed control. Commissioner Dan Cothren expressed dissatisfaction with communication with the US Army Corps of Engineers about completion of revised right-of-entry easements. The county is waiting for the Corps to complete revisions to the easements, which land owners must sign to allow dredging crews to work along their shoreline property when depositing dredge sand. County officials are working to set up a 10-year...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams for this coming week includes: Friday, high school boys and girls basketball at Mary M. Knight at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! The regular monthly meeting of the Naselle School Board will be held on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Students will be celebrating the holidays beginning on Tuesday with their winter holiday break and returning to classes in 2017 on January 3. The Naselle Massage Clinic is celebrating its five year anniversary. Bryon Parrino is an amazing healer in this field and now is the...
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday passed a resolution adopting county budgets for 2017. Predicting revenue shortfalls for another year, officials tried to keep increases as low as possible. The county treasurer has had to make $1.1 million in interfund loans in 2016 to cover expense, commission Chair Blair Brady said Monday. Those interfund loans must be repaid, he said, and the 2017 revenue shortfall will be around $700,000. The county received $900,000 this month from the Department of Natural Resources from a land transfer that will...
The Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking public comment on two draft environmental impact statements for management plans that will affect logging on timber trust lands in Wahkiakum and other counties. The two statements are 1. the Marbled Murrelet Long-term Conservation Strategy, which was written jointly with U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), and 2. the Sustainable Harvest Calculation for state trust lands in western Washington. Staff from the DNR and USFWS will host public meetings and webinars in January 2017...
News from Naselle: The sports calendar for this coming week includes: Saturday, high school boys basketball at Wahkiakum for the annual KM Trophy at 5:45 p.m. Bring it home boys! Monday, middle school girls basketball with South Bend in Naselle at 5:45 p.m.; Tuesday, middle school girls basketball with Ocosta in Naselle at 5:45 p.m. Go Comet teams! On Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m., the community is invited to the Naselle School’s annual Christmas Concert. Come and enjoy an evening of beautiful holiday music. Westend news: The Grays River Grange #...
Wahkiakum county commissioners will hold their annual meeting to consider passage of their budgets for 2017. State law mandates the meeting, including a public hearing, start on the first Monday of December. The meeting will start at 9:30 a.m. Anticipating a year of tight revenue, commissioners last fall asked department heads to propose 2017 budgets with no increases over this year. For the most part, that theme carried through. The Current Expense Fund budget, which covers most courthouse offices, is proposed to increase from $5.1 million in...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week includes:Thursday, high school boys basketball with Wahkiakum in Naselle at 5:45 p.m.; Friday, high school girls basketball at Pe Ell at 5:45 p.m.; Monday, middle school girls basketball with North Beach in Naselle at 5:45 p.m., JV boys and girls basketball versus Warrenton at 5:45 p.m.; Tuesday, high school boys and girls basketball versus Warrenton at 5:45 p.m.; Wednesday, middle school girls basketball versus Willapa Valley at 5:45 p.m., high school girls basketball at...
The Cathlamet town council reinforced on Monday its intention to raise rates for customers of its water and sewer utilities. Council members voted to give final approval to an ordinance that will increase rates effective December 1. Customers will see the increases on their January bills. Water rates will increase 10 percent, and sewer rates will increase 20 percent. --Basic water rates for a 5/8" line will be $34.95 per month in town and $51.27 outside the city limits. --Sewer rates within town corporate limits will be $96 per month and...
The Nenita, a 738-ft. long bulk carrier loaded with grain, ran aground early Saturday morning in the Columbia River near Skamokawa and began taking on water. According to the US Coast Guard, the outbound vessel lost propulsion and ran hard aground around 3:18 a.m. The crew found water leaking into the peak of the hull and isolated the area. The vessel was refloated and towed to the Port Westward area later Saturday for further inspection. The Marshall Islands-flagged freighter was loaded with...
News from Naselle: Way to go Comets, and congratulations on a very successful football season. After a tough season they made it to the state quarterfinals, before falling to the top ranked team in the state. You have made your school very proud as well as the whole community. Sports calendar for the coming week includes: Tuesday, high school girls basketball at Willapa Valley at 5:45 p.m.; Wednesday, middle school girls basketball at Raymond at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! Students will be out of school both Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving ho...
Wahkiakum County election officials counted their latest batch of ballots Thursday morning, and incumbent county Commissioner Mike Backman took a 45-vote lead over challenger Greg Prestegard in the election for the District 1 position. The margin, 1,177 to 1,132, was large enough to give Backman the win and avoid an automatic recount, required when the difference is one half of 1 percent or lower. Prestegard had a five-vote lead, 999-994, in the Nov. 8 election day tallies. Meanwhile, in the county's other commission election, incumbent Dan Cot...
By Rick Nelson Some prophet I am. When Donald Trump announced his bid for presidency last year, I broke out in a spontaneous laugh of disbelief. He's completely untrained for the job, I thought to myself. Who's laughing now? Right. I still believe he's completely unsuited for the presidency. A majority of voters seem to agree, but with our nation's 19th century electoral system, it doesn't matter: He'll be our president. I've always said the voters deserve the people they elect; the trouble is that the people who voted against a candidate pay t...
News from Naselle: Congratulations to the Naselle girls volleyball team on their seventh place finish at State. Way to go, girls. Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week: Friday, high school football - state playoff game at Lummi High School with kickoff time 7 p.m. Go for it, boys. Monday, middle school girls basketball at South Bend at 5:45 p.m.; Tuesday, middle school girls basketball with Ocosta in Naselle at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! This week will mark the third Annual Northwest Basketball/ Lyle Patterson Memorial Basketball...
By Rick Nelson Is the Wahkiakum County effort to arrange for dredge spoils nourishment on eroding beaches any closer to action: That was the question residents of Cape Horn and East Sunny Sands on Puget Island posed to the county board of commissioners on Tuesday. And the answer: Yes, but there are details to address. First, county officials are waiting for the US Army Corps of Engineers' legal department to rewrite wording on the right-of-entry easements which land owners must sign so that dred...
Voters in Wahkiakum County and Legislative District 19 left races too close to call on Tuesday. In the race for County Commissioner District 1, challenger Greg Prestegard, a Democrat, led incumbent Mike Backman, an Independent, by just five votes, 999-994. The county auditor's office will count late votes this morning (Thursday). In the race for County Commissioner District 2, incumbent Dan Cothren, led challenger Robert L. Jungers, no party preference, 1,085-838. Incumbent Wahkiakum PUD...
Wahkiakum County election officials counted their latest batch of ballots Thursday morning, and incumbent county Commissioner Mike Backman took a 45-vote lead over challenger Greg Prestegard. Prestegard had five-vote lead, 999-994 in the Nov. 8 election day tallies. Meanwhile, in the county's other commission election, incumbent Dan Cothren maintained a solid lead over challenger Robert L. Jungers, 1,245-987. In other tight races: --Mike Turner overcame an election night deficit to lead Doug Goelz in the race to fill the Pacific-Wahkiakum...
Wahkiakum County commissioners discussed concerns over countywide emergency medical services (EMS) at their meeting Tuesday. Commission Chair Blair Brady said he had heard concerns about how EMS funds are used. After some discussion, Commissioners Brady and Mike Backman (Commissioner Dan Cothren was ill and absent) said they would hold a workshop to discuss various issues. The issues included payments to EMS personnel, equipment purchases, lack of paramedics on ambulance crews, and slow response times. Brady said he had been told some EMS...
By the time the paper is published this week, we will know the results of this unprecedented presidential election. Hopefully the nastiness, name calling, lying and other negative news will at least taper off. It would be nice to be able to watch real news again. I voted and I hope you did too. News from Naselle: Naselle Comets sport calendar for this week includes: Thursday, middle school girls basketball with Raymond in Naselle at 5:45 p.m.; Friday, District Champions Naselle Comettes head to the WIAA State Volleyball Tournament in Yakima...
The 2016 Wahkiakum Mule football season came to an end with a 36-6 loss to the Pe Ell/Willapa Valley Titans last Friday. The win gave the Titans a berth in the state Class 2B playoffs; they'll travel to Sedro Wooley next Saturday to take on the LaConner Braves. The Mules' season may have ended with a loss, but their coaches are proud of the team's effort. When junior Terris Record left the game for neck injury analysis, the Mule line up featured two seniors, eight freshmen and sophomores, and one eighth grader standing up to a team of larger,...
Dredging, fairgrounds improvements, and office space allocations occupied the Wahkiakum County commissions on Tuesday. County efforts to set up dredge spoils deposits on eroding beaches are making progress, officials reported. Beaches at Cape Horn and East Sunny Sands have sustained erosion, and residents have been pressing county officials to work with the US Army Corps of Engineers to set up the beach nourishment. Consultants are working on project designs and necessary permits, and commissioners have been working with Corps officials to...
October has been a wet one, and hopefully it's not a predictor of what the rest of the winter will bring as far as precipitation. My rain gauge here in Grays River reads over 18 inches for the month. Fortunately we were only flooded in one time. It's a really good idea to get prepared for the worst. Make sure you are equipped with supplies for yourself and your family, your pets and even keep an eye on your neighbors--just in case. Fuel for your generators and vehicles is also a must--just in case. Carry an emergency bag in your vehicle with...
The Wahkiakum Mule football team closed the regular season with a 38-12 win over the Toutle Lake Ducks last Friday and emerged from a three-team tiebreaker Monday to qualify for an inter-league crossover playoff game this coming Friday. Friday's win put the Mules, Ducks and Mossyrock Vikings in a tie for the third, fourth and fifth places in the River League standings. On Monday, the Ducks edged the Mules and Vikings, and the Mules shut out Mossyrock and lost to Toutle. That put the Ducks in third place, the Mules in fourth and the Vikings in f...
Wahkiakum County officials have started work on 2017 budgets, and it's a story that's been repeated for several years. Commissioners have asked department heads not to ask for anything new, and they say projected expenses will exceed projected revenue. The board finished meeting with department heads this week to go over requests. The budgets will go to the county auditor's office for compilation, and the board will work on them late in November, with final action coming the first week in December. Meeting with Treasurer Tammy Peterson on Monda...
Naselle news: Sports calendar for the coming week: Thursday, middle school football at Wishkah at 4 p.m., high school volleyball at Lake Quinault at 5:30 p.m.; Saturday, cross country district meet at Onalaska with first event at 10:30 a.m.; Monday, middle school football with Jewell in Naselle at 6 p.m. Westend news: The Rosburg Community Club’s annual Holiday Bazaar will be held this Saturday in the Rosburg Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you are interested in participating as a vendor, table space may still be available, so please contact eit...
