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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The December 27 storm hit hard on Puget Island, knocking down a barn and sending a tall conifer into Welcome Slough. The barn, on the property of Sarah and Paul Lawrence, was built in 1939. Photo courtesy of Sarah Lawrence....
In December, The Eagle invited local poets to submit poems for our Annual Poetry Corner to start the new year. Thanks, poets, and enjoy! ---------------- The Drumming Mule The Bremen-Town Musicians by The Brothers Grimm Tells of some animals who went out on a limb. To sing for their supper-they were horrific. Read their story to see how it turned out terrific. A donkey singing, well okay. We know a donkey likes to bray. But how about drumming, by his cousin the mule? I happened to see this at school! At a basketball game, I left my seat To get...
Wahkiakum County Commissioners and District 19 legislators on Tuesday discussed issues the county board would like to see addressed in the coming session of the Washington State Legislature. Rep. Joel McEntire, R-Cathlamet, met with the board in person, and Senator Jeff Wilson, R-Kalama attended via Zoom. Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, reportedly had a scheduling conflict. Topics ranged from compensating counties with trust timberlands that are encumbered by species habitat restrictions to laws affecting law enforcement and drug offenders. For...
General Manager Dan Kay addressed substation security issues at the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday. “We are taking it seriously,” he said. “Wahkiakum PUD is aware of substation vandalism events that have occurred recently in the Pacific Northwest and around our country. We have and are coordinating with our law enforcement agencies to communicate and increase the security at our substations. As part of this we cannot discuss specific details of our mitigation meas...
According to the county website, the mission of Wahkiakum Heath and Human Services is to “enhance the health and well-being of Wahkiakum County by providing effective health and human services and by fostering and implementing sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.” One of the ways they seek to enhance the health and well-being of the community is through their mental health department. Duncan Cruickshank, who is in charge of the dep...
A Tumwater woman was hospitalized after the vehicle she was driving collided with a log truck last Friday afternoon near Nassa Point. Nancy Knofler, 66, was headed westbound on SR 4 in a Subaru Outback on Friday around noon when her vehicle crossed the center line near milepost 39 and collided head on with an eastbound log truck driven by Fabian Hohn, 38, of South Bend. Hohn, who was wearing a seatbelt, was uninjured, according to a report from the Washington State Patrol. Emergency responders...
Sixty was the magic number for the Mule boys basketball team last week, when they won three games with that score and were named champions of a Christmas tournament at Mount Vernon Christian School. Lummi Nation went into high gear in the final minutes on the Mules first night of competition, scoring 31 points in the fourth quarter, but it wasn't enough. The Mules managed to hold on for a 60-58 win. Zakk Carlson scored 26 points and pulled down eight boards against Lummi Nation. Brodie Avalon...
Wahkiakum Mule wrestlers Malachi Schaefer, Lilian Hale, and Mckenna Mendez placed second in their classes at a recent meet in Clatskanie. On Saturday, the girls head to Kelso and the boys will be competing in Ridgefield. Wahkiakum will host the first league mix and match meet on Wednesday, January 11. Courtesy photo....
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team participated in a girls' tournament at Mount Vernon Christian School during the last week of December. The Lady Mules lost their first and second games, 32-19 to Orcas Island and 47-37 to Moses Lake Christian Academy/Covenant Christian School respectively, but finished the trip on a high note with a 56-42 win against Crosspoint Academy. They returned to regular season play on Wednesday at home against Toutle Lake, but the score was not available by...
To The Eagle: As each reader has no doubt experienced, the area in and around Cathlamet can be breathtaking and incredibly peaceful: it is a situation that is unique compared with nearly every other city on the lower Columbia River. While we are aviation enthusiasts ourselves (but not pilots), my family and I wanted to urge our fellow citizens to contact the county commissioners and ask them to reject all proposals for any type of seaplane hanger, ramp, or base near Cathlamet or on the Cathlamet channel. In our letter parts 2 and 3, we explored...
In last week's paper, Assessor Falon Hoven's position was incorrectly described as appointed. She was elected to the position. And to clarify, the cell phone tower described in Mayor David Olson's comments to the county board of commissioners is located on land belonging to the Town of Cathlamet, which will negotiate an updated lease with the service provider....
The number of reported covid-19 cases rose by two this week according to the Washington Department of Health, for a cumulative total of 632 in Wahkiakum County. The number of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to the virus remained unchanged, at 48 and 10 respectively. Disclaimer: With the easy accessibility of at home tests, the actual number of active covid-19 cases and actual cumulative numbers in the county are hard to know. According to the Washington Department of Health, 70.3 percent...
ANOTHER YEAR--Well, we’re five days into 2023 and we’ve had some wild weather to end 2022 and to start 2023 as well, so I’m hoping for some milder stuff for awhile. We certainly had some horrible road conditions over Christmas and then later we saw heavy rains with some low land flooding and then we tossed in some super sonic thunder and brilliant lightning so that was definitely impressive! The earlier forecast of some dry weather for this week quickly fell apart and now it looks to be wet and stormy as well, so I hope you’re stocked up and...
THURSDAY Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, work night, 7:30 p.m. Puget Island Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum Fire District 2 Commissioners, Skamokawa Fire Hall, 7 p.m. Cathlamet Public Library Board of Trustees, 12:45 p.m. Free Senior Fitness and Balance Class, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, enter via door on 3rd, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Food Addicts...
Happy New Year, my friends! This is my third annual writing folder for Eagle articles. We've all been through a lot over the past two years and I hope and pray we're only going higher, happier and healthier. During the past quiet week, I spent time in one of my favorite history books, "Water Under the Bridge" by Ruth Busse Allingham. I particularly enjoyed the chapter on Marie Fauver, one of the first people I visited with when I moved to Grays River in 2005. I first lived in Cathlamet after...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: December 26 — 1:02 a.m. A caller hung up after dialing 911. 7:13 a.m. A caller asked for assistance after locking keys in her truck. 8:23 a.m. A large boulder was reported in the westbound lane of SR 4 near Nassa Point. A deputy cleared it from the road. 6:14 p.m. A suspicious person was knocking on doors on Jacobson Road asking for a ride. 6:18 p.m. A caller requested flags on Beaver Creek Road to alert drive...
Michael Ray Carroll died from lung cancer, surrounded by family December 26th, 2022, at Frontier Rehabilitation and Extended Care Center in Longview. He was a strong man, full of pride who loved his family greatly. He worked hard every day for what he had, never asking for help. He was very stubborn in that way. He had an inventive mind, building what he needed from nearly anything and served as head of maintenance for Wahkiakum County among many other jobs. He was a track athlete in high school. He hunted, logged and built several muscle...
Kitty Johnson, 81, born Kathleen Jewel Rydell, of Tumwater Washington, passed away gracefully on November 26, 2022 after an ongoing battle with heart failure. Born in Spokane, Washington to Roy and Helen Rydell on April 19, 1941, Kitty spent her younger days active in the church and school where she discovered her love of the fine arts. She graduated from Marycliff High School (1959) and earned her Bachelor's in Art at Fort Wright College (1963). Her education took her back and forth to Spokane...
The Charlotte House, a program of St. James Family Center, will host a Free Legal Clinic on Friday, January 13. John McKay, an attorney with Northwest Justice Project will be at Johnson Park from 9 a.m. – noon and in Cathlamet from 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. He will help individuals with specific family law questions, such as how to get a divorce, determining primary custody and visitation and/or establishing child support. If you are interested in learning more about this clinic or to sign up you must call The Charlotte House at 360-795-6401 or tol...
Lower Columbia College has announced the line-up for the Winter 2023 Community Conversations lecture series focusing on “Books that Move Us.” Whether it is mind expanding or guilty pleasures, reading can bring us excitement, information, joy, and community. Our series includes discussion of literary giants, popular fiction, and how reading brings us together. Lectures are held on Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m., in HSB 101 on the LCC campus, and also streamed via Zoom. Sessions are recorded and posted to the college’s website and LCC...
The first WordFest event for 2023 will be held Tuesday, January 10, 6:00-8:00 p.m., at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 1428 22nd Avenue in Longview. Local comedian Coree Spencer will present her book, I’m Not OK, You’re Not OK, an activity book for when people are feeling down, anxious, or depressed. She created it from her own experience of having to rely on laughter to cope with mental health issues. “This book is like being with a hilarious friend who has no good advice but totally gets what you are going through,” she says. It offers a...
According to Sheriff Mark Howie, when the arctic blast gave us freezing rain on December 23, it stranded one deputy at home, and a trooper at the Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office. Thankfully, according to the sheriff's report, it was a pretty quiet night in Wahkiakum County. Sergeant Brad Moon of the Washington State Patrol, who started his shift that morning around 11:30 a.m., was not so lucky. He was handling one thing up north before the storm came in, while another trooper headed to SR 105...
