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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce's 37th annual Crab and Oyster Feed at Columbia River Ranch was a big success, according to Chamber Director Monica Budd. "Everybody loved it more than last year," Budd said. "Every year it just improves." This year there were more heaters to keep everyone warm while they enjoy oysters, crab, corn on the cob, coleslaw, potato salad and rolls, as well as desserts provided by The Spar, and beer from River Mile 38 Brewery. DJ Steve Carson of Computer Link NW...
The Town of Cathlamet has a new council member. After interviewing applicants Kaden Anderson, Joseph Baker, Holly McKeen, and Michael Severson, the council voted 3-1 to appoint Baker to the vacant Position #3. Council member Laurel Waller cast the lone dissenting vote. Position #3 is up for election this fall, and Baker will be required to run for election to continue past the nine-month appointment. Baker and his wife relocated to Cathlamet in 2021 after residing in Auburn for many years. He formerly managed the theater at Green River College...
Mule Wrestler Lilian Hale became the first female Wahkiakum Mule wrestler to place in the state tournament. Hale, a junior, took sixth place at 155 at the Mat Classic in the Tacoma Dome over the weekend. See story on Page 12. Courtesy photo...
Much of the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday was spent talking about how decisions made by Bonneville Power Administration and the state could potentially affect the district in the future. General Manager Dan Kay said that the Bonneville Power Administration was receiving feedback from the Public Power Council, who advocates on behalf of utilities, on contract matters. “Right now is a very active time to get our voices heard," Kay said. “It’s all about syste...
To The Eagle: A writer’s list submitted last week emphatically stated it contained the “facts” about social security. With respect to the writer, an easy, quick fact-check shows that everything on the list is either demonstrably false or a gross misrepresentation. The list appears to be a nearly verbatim recast of a partisan email first circulated in 2005, the last time politicians proposed privatizing SS or cutting benefits, and has been thoroughly debunked. Without going through every item on the list here are a few samples: -- “FDR said mo...
To The Eagle: The expression ‘stay woke’ has been used by Black folks since the 1920's, urging people of color to stay aware and vigilant against racial discrimination. The subsequent Civil Rights movement fostered cross-cultural awareness of other forms of oppression; against women, homosexuals, immigrants, Jews, and other targeted non-Christian minorities. Conservatives have co-opted and inverted ‘woke’ into a slur, mocking what activists of my generation refer to as ‘having a social conscience,’ being alert to injustice in society, es...
To The Eage: Has the Longview TDN or CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC reported that LA and NYC permit CCP (Chinese Communist Party) police stations into their cities? Why on earth would LA and NYC allow CCP police stations on USA soil? If they exist in LA and NYC, in a matter of time it will spread across the USA. Already, they exist in Toronto, Canada, Western Europe, South America, Africa and other countries. So why are they here? Why is the news media silent? This is important information; we need to know what is going on in our country. Makes you...
Mule basketball player Zakk Carlson was misidentified in a recent photo caption. He is now wearing the number 4 jersey....
School districts should be required to test all students to see if they qualify for more challenging classes. That is the message behind Substitute Senate Bill 5072, proposed by T’wina Nobles, D-Fircrest. It requires districts to screen all students during the school day for participation in a “Highly Capable Program (HCP). “With this model, every student in a grade level gets to be considered, and no student is overlooked.” Nobles said. “Districts that have implemented universal screening are seeing the results improve equity for advanced...
In a meeting that lasted just over 10 minutes, Wahkiakum County commissioners appointed Puget Island resident Mark Hoover to fill a vacancy on the board of commissioners of Diking District No. 1. Besides that, they approved previous meeting minutes, discussed legislation that could affect the county, and heard very brief reports from two departments. Hoover joins Tony Aegerter and Kevin Vik as members of the three-person board responsible for maintaining the Island's dikes, pump stations and drainage ditches. Aegerter reported the US Army...
GETTING PREPARED--As this week starts, it’s a drippy day in the 40s but according to forecasters, we are in for some very cold days, so I hope you were ready to bundle up and keep warm somehow. Whenever we see temperatures in the 20s forecast, that’s not a great deal for man nor beast and then throw in a chance of some snow and it could be a really miserable few days. Keeping my fingers crossed that the forecast changes and we are all a bit cooler but nothing too severe; one can always hope! It is still winter so I guess we shouldn’t be too s...
THURSDAY Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments Board, 961 12th Ave, Longview, Noon. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, fire/ambulance, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum Planning Commission, Courthouse, 6 p.m. Wahkiakum Commissioners, Courthouse, 9:30 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Free Senior Fitness and Balance Class, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, enter via door on 3rd, 12:45-1:45 p.m. W...
Newspapers: I highly value our Eagle newspaper. It is one of the few small-town papers still in existence. We have become a society that reads "electronic" news. This illustrates our addiction to being stimulated by instant news and constant information with no data, science or study beyond what we see and hear. Good things can happen on our devices, but we err when we believe only what a device tells us. Newspapers are meant to provide "investigative news," not unverified information....
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: February 13 — 12:34 a.m. A caller reported that a vehicle dropped off two people by the bathrooms at Vista Park and returned later to pick them up, adding that it was an ongoing problem and that the morning prior, an employee found a mess in the bathrooms. A deputy met with the complainant, who said that a subject was rude and vulgar when he was told that the showers close at 10 p.m. The pair were told to l...
May 14, 1962 - February 2, 2023 Ken passed away on February 2, 2023 after a long battle with juvenile diabetes. Ken was a husband, dad, son, brother, and uncle who loved his family. He was a quiet man with a wit about him. If you asked him "Where does this road go?" ... he would answer with a smirk... "nowhere it stays there all the time." He was born in Longview, WA to Joe and Corliss (Sotka) Florek and raised in Cathlamet, WA where he graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1981. In 1994 Ken...
Ronald "Ron" E. Horman, 88, longtime Puget Island resident, passed away at Hospice with family by his side, on February 7, 2023. He was born June 19, 1934 to Edwin and Mildred (Baker) Horman. He graduated in the upper 10 percent of his class of 300 in 1951 in Milwaukie, Ore. In his youth he spent summers on Puget Island with his Uncle Harvey Moore's family, woking the hay fields. Ron joined the Army in 1954, coming back to the Island, staying with Crist and Carol Pedersen, where they treated him...
Longtime community leader and law enforcement officer, Daniel Lee Bardsley, died February 18, 2003 at his home in Cathlamet. A private family memorial will be held and a public celebration of life will be announced later. A full obituary will be published next week. Dowling Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements....
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota has honored Nicholas West, of Cathlamet, who took part in the Minnesota Private College Council's Scholars at the Capitol event recently. Students from Minnesota's private colleges and universities present research from a variety of academic disciplines, highlighting the learning that occurs every day. West presented his research titled "Development of Phosphoramide Catalysis for Carbonyl-Olefin Metathesis." Nicholas is a senior at Saint Mary's University...
Tall Timbers Farm joins other CSA farmers across the country to celebrate CSA Week, a national event taking place from February 20-26 to promote Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). CSA is a farm membership system that allows consumers to sign up to receive a season’s worth of a farm’s products (veggies, eggs, meat, flowers, grain, etc.) over a number of weeks. Along with getting to enjoy fresh, delicious, and local food, being a CSA member is an excellent way to support and get to know your local farmers. CSA Week is the most popular tim...
Josephine Young, of Cathlamet, was named to the Dean’s List for the 2022 fall term at Eastern Oregon University. She studied STM and Health Science, General Studies-Exploratory. EOU named 572 students to the Dean’s List for the 2022 fall term. Qualifying students achieve and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale while completing a minimum of 12 hours of graded EOU coursework. View the full list at eou.edu/ua/deans-list....
The long-running Wahkiakum Outdoors program, sponsored by the Wahkiakum County Marine Resources Committee, provides educational events regarding marine and natural resources and recreational opportunities in the SW Washington region. The program will host three presentations during March and April 2023. On Saturday, March 25, Jim Aalberg of Westport, Oregon will describe the history and evolution of the Wahkiakum-Westport Ferry (“Catching The Last Ferry”). The following Saturday, April 1, Dr. Madeline Kalbach from University of Calgary wil...
Registration is open for the ninth biennial Salmon Recovery Conference, which brings together more than 650 salmon recovery professionals to share their work and the latest science for recovering salmon. “The slower we act, the faster our salmon will be pushed to the brink of survival,” said Gov. Jay Inslee. “This conference brings together our best and brightest to develop long-term solutions that will help native salmon and steelhead recover and thrive.” The 2-day conference begins April 18 in Vancouver, Wash. Early-bird registration is open...
On February 25 at 10 a.m., WSU Master Gardener Art Fuller will explain everything you want to know about pruning grapevines and how to care for grape starts. The presentation will be followed by a demonstration of pruning techniques. You may bring your pruners and learn how to sharpen them. Participants will receive free starts of grape varieties Canadice and Venus. The workshop will be held in Longview. You will be given the location after you have registered. Walk-ins cannot be admitted. Enrollment is limited to 30 people. The cost is $10....
There was one more case of covid-19 reported, according to the Washington Department of Health, bringing the cumulative total in Wahkiakum County to 639. The number of hospitalizations rose by one to 50, and the number of deaths attributed to the virus stands at 11. 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. WA DOH is reporting that 70.6 percent of the population in the state...
Fishery managers with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) have scheduled numerous opportunities for the public to participate in setting state-managed salmon seasons in 2023-2024, beginning with a statewide forecast meeting on March 3. That meeting, part of the season-setting process known as North of Falcon, is just one of more than a dozen in-person and virtual meetings scheduled in the coming months to discuss salmon fisheries across Washington. North of Falcon refers to waters north of Oregon's Cape Falcon, which marks...
