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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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OLYMPIA (Jan. 19) -- The state Senate passed several bills aimed at expanding access to voting and promoting minority representation in local governments through redistricting. On the evening of Jan. 17, in a reconvened Senate floor vote session, the body passed SB 6021, which would allow voters to register for elections in-person up until 8 p.m. on the day of an election and eight days before if registering online or by mail. The bill passed 29-20 and now goes to the House. The Senate also passed the 2018 Voting Rights Act: a bill which allows...
The Board of Directors of Wahkiakum School District No. 200 have changed their January meeting to Monday afternoon, Jan. 22, 5:30 p.m., in the Wahkiakum High School library. The board and Superintendent Bob Garrett are inviting the public to attend, especially if they have questions about the district's coming special levy, which replaces an expiring levy and is designed to cover costs and programs not covered by state funding. More information is available in the photos accompanying this...
Mayor Dale Jacobson cast the tiebreaking vote Tuesday to select Jean Burnham to fill a vacant seat on the Cathlamet Town Council. Long-time Council Member Richard Swart resigned at the end of December, and the council had three applicants to fill the vacancy--Burnham, Paige Lake and Robert Stowe. The candidates answered questions from each council member, and then the council, Jacobson and town attorney Heidi Heywood retreated to a 20-minute executive session to evaluate the candidates. When...
Wahkiakum County commissioners covered a lot of ground as they took on a light agenda at their Tuesday meeting this week. Commissioners accepted the recommendation of Health and Human Services Director Chris Bischoff to locate the Wahkiakum Weed Control office in a soon to be vacant at the department's mental health campus. The county has been looking for months for office space for the weed control program, which had previously been housed in the WSU Cooperative Extension Office. The logistics...
A conversation at the local barber shop led to questions about chlorination at the Wahkiakum PUD Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday morning. Commissioner Bob Jungers said that while he was waiting for a haircut, another customer began talking about the possibility of the PUD taking over the Westside Water System in Skamokawa. The man was concerned that the PUD would chlorinate the water. Jungers introduced himself and confirmed the man’s fear. That’s when he learned about another pos...
To The Eagle: Two cheers for Krist Novoselic (letter in last week’s Eagle) for nailing a bad problem ($20 trillion national debt) and its cause (profligate government spending). As an erstwhile and capable leader of the Democrat Party effort in this county, we’ve long hoped Krist would eventually drift toward the conservative side of the ledger, and his comments on indulgent government squandering indicate he has – so why only two cheers? He lost that third one by characterizing a vote for the tax cut as contributing another tril-‘n- a-half...
To The Eagle: Allow me to applaud Krist Novoselic’s assertion that less knee-jerk partisanship and a restored focus on “real problems” would be healthy for Wahkiakum County. During a recent visit, I encountered a harder, more bitter right-left divide than I remember from my term as Cathlamet’s mayor (2010-13). I also sensed that tensions between old-timers and newcomers are intensifying beyond the point where the cross-current of ideas and perspectives is healthful to one where hard “camps” are emerging. In one instance, a friend shared that...
To The Eagle: The Naselle-Grays River Valley School District Board of Directors recently authorized the placement of a three year maintenance and operations levy on the February 13 ballot. This is a replacement of the existing levy at just under half the rate that taxpayers are currently paying. The rate for the proposed levy is $1.50 per $1,000 dollars of assessed valuation, or $150 per year for a $100,000 home. The current school levy expires in December 2018. The replacement levy, if passed, will be collected in calendar years 2019, 2020...
To The Eagle: I was born and raised on Puget Island and went to Wahkiakum High School. I'm of Norwegian descent and raised in a Protestant, commercial fishing family. I'm now 65 years old, and I see a lot of things that need to be fixed in this country. I'm disabled. I want to go back to work. Years ago, I was in a car wreck; a man came out of nowhere from behind at a high rate of speed as I was making a left turn in a 35 mph zone. The impact was so great that it knocked out the caps and fillings in my teeth. I was in severe pain with a back...
To The Eagle: Future scholars will sift through Trump’s digital proclamations the way we now read the chroniclers of Nero’s Rome - to understand how an unhinged emperor can make a mockery of republican institutions, undo the collective nervous system of a nation and degrade the whole of public life. Chaotic, corrupt, incurious, infantile, grandiose, obsessed with gaudy real estate and his own inflated self regard, Donald Trump is of Neronic temperament. Longing for undying fame, he has always craved attention. Now the whole world is his aud...
The January Wahkiakum County Port 1 meeting began last Thursday with a reorganization of the board. Commissioner Brett Deaton was made Chairperson and Commissioner Bob Kizziar was selected to be Vice Chair. Bill Fashing, executive director of the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments, was in attendance. He invited the commissioners to support the organization financially and by serving on the board. The commissioners wanted to take more time to consider the matter. Fashing said he would...
U.S. Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler will host a live telephone town hall on Monday at 6:30 p.m. All residents of Southwest Washington’s third congressional district are invited to join for a conversation about tax cuts, tolling and whatever else is on their mind. Southwest Washington residents can sign up to receive a call to join the telephone town hall by contacting Herrera-Beutler's Vancouver office to be placed on the call list by calling (360) 695-6292. Residents can also call in to join the telephone town hall at any point during t...
SUNSHINE--I think we all agree that the sunshine last Saturday and Sunday was certainly a welcome break from the dreary rain we'd been dealing with. Of course, this was a three day weekend, and it figures that we could only have two of the three be nice, but oh well, that was better than none! The clouds rolled in on Monday morning and they say this whole week is supposed to be wet, but this is one time that I wish the forecasters would be wrong, as we really were enjoying those sunny, uplifting days! BE WARY--For those that are traveling SR 4...
THURSDAY Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m.-Noon. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Community Center, Cathlamet, 6-9 p.m. Girl Scouts, Community Center, Cathlamet, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Rosburg Community Club, 7 p.m. Cathlamet First Aid Division, Fire Hall, 7 p.m. Fire Protection District No. 1 Commissioners, Fire Hall, 5:30 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, First Aid Division, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, ambulance training, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum Fire...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week: Today (Thursday), high school boys and girls basketball at WSD at 5:30 p.m., middle school boys basketball in Naselle with Ocosta at 5:45 p.m.; Monday, middle school boys basketball in Naselle with North Beach at 5:45 p.m.; Tuesday, high school boys and girls basketball at Columbia Adv. at 5:30 p.m.; Wednesday, middle school boys basketball at Willapa Valley at 5:45 p.m., JV girls basketball in Naselle with Ilwaco at 7 p.m. Go Comets! Wednesday, the 23rd, is an early...
Dr. Jennifer Wierschin recently joined the Country Pet Veterinary Clinic in Naselle. The San Diego native received her degree from the veterinary program at Purdue in 2003. In 2012, she moved to Seaside to be near her mother. After doing relief work in Nehalem and Beaverton, she's pleased to have found a home at the clinic in Naselle. "This is a really great practice," Wierschin said. "There is a really homey feel to it. Most of the clients really like it and the pets seem less stressed." The st...
A body found in the Columbia River on January 13 was identified as 17 year old Marciano Sakhoeun of St. Helens, Ore. Sakhoeun, a high school student and Marine enlistee, was reported missing on October 18, 2017. A tug boat captain reported seeing the remains in the river near the Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for Columbian White-tailed Deer at 2:38 p.m. on Saturday. Wahkiakum County Coroner Dan Bigelow along with John Mason and Mike Balch, deputies from the Wahkiakum Sheriff’s Office, boarded t...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: January 8 — 8:53 a.m. A student was found with marijuana in his possession at a school in Cathlamet. 12:47 p.m. A local resident reported that he had found a dent in his vehicle. He did not know where or when it had happened. A deputy informed him that the sheriff’s office could not help as jurisdiction could not be determined. 1:03 p.m. A Skamokawa resident reported that a neighbor’s goats were on his prope...
Ronald D. Ozment was born to Dillon and Pearl (Kindberg) Ozment on December 14, 1938 in Cathlamet, and died January 7, 2018 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Ron and his brother, Russ, conducted a life-long dairy operation partnership in the Elochoman valley, inherited from their parents. Their milking herd was sold in 1997 and they retired from managing the farm in 2004. Ron was elected and served three terms as Wahkiakum County Commissioner and was appointed by Washington State Governor to two terms on t...
On January 9, 2018 Raymond "Ray" Ernest Poppe went home to be with his lord and savior Jesus Christ. Born on May 9, 1931 in Highbridge, Wisconsin to Ernest and Mae (Newell) Poppe, Ray lived in Highbridge until 1947. He, his dad, and youngest sister Delores "sis" moved to Molalla, Oregon after his mom died. He was 16. Ray went to school in Mellen, Wisconsin from elementary school until he was a junior in high school. He graduated from Molalla High school in 1949. Upon graduation, Ray entered the...
The Wahkiakum Lions honored Tanner Grove as their Student of The Month for December. Tanner is a member of the Broadcasting Club at WHS and likes to do podcasting. After high school he plans to attend LCC. Tanner is pictured with his parents Dan and Christie as he received a certificate and check from Lion Brian McClain. Lions Club President Brian McClain greeted Rebecca Castillo as a new member of the Wahkiakum Lions Club as he performed the induction ceremony at their Monday meeting. Her...
The Naselle-Grays River Valley School District Board of Directors met for its monthly meeting on January 16 in Middle School Commons. The board approved Policy 2110, Transitional Bilingual Instruction Program and the purchase of 30 Chromebook computers with a supplemental grant from Gear Up funds that counselor Justin Laine and secretary Rachel Suomela had written. The board also adopted the Superintendent and Board Operating Principles for the 2017-18 school year. These principles guide the way in which the board and superintendent work...
Sadly, all too many property owners know the frustration of having that vision of a beautiful lawn ruined by moles. On January 30 at 6:00 p.m., Malcolm Worrell will talk about which techniques are the most effective in getting rid of moles. Worrell will discuss what works and what products fail to get results. The class will be held for free in the Fair Exposition located in Longview at the Cowlitz County Fairgrounds. The workshop is sponsored by Washington State University Extension Master Gardeners. For more information, contact Gary...
On January 25, at noon, Chris Roubicek, Attorney in Castle Rock, will discuss the uses and abuses of Durable Powers of Attorney. The program, sponsored by Washington State University Extension, will be held for free at the Cowlitz Co. Museum, 405 Allen Street, Kelso. For more information, contact Gary Fredricks at 577-3014 Ext 3 or garyf@wsu.edu....
With the 2018 Washington state legislative session kicking off, a 2016 state Supreme Court decision on water continues to make waves in the House and Senate. The so-called Hirst decision in October 2016 set a precedent that compels local governments and landowners to take into account the availability of water before issuing permits to developers. The decision came after the court determined that Whatcom County had been issuing permit exemptions that violated flow rules designed to protect stream water levels. According to the Department of...
