Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Sorted by date Results 1 - 21 of 21
The Mules Baseball team took on Quinalt at home in a double header on Friday and won both games. The Mules easily won the first game 13-2 with Gunnar Blix at the mound for all five innings. He struck out 12 and allowed two runs. On offense, Travis Wegdahl went 1-2, hitting a double and bringing in two runs. Blix was 1-3 with a double and two RBIs. Zach Brown went 2-2 and Seth Doumit hit a single and brought in two runs with a sacrifice. Both Cody Terpsma and Chuck Barton were 1-3 at bat and...
The 30th annual Great White Tail Run takes place on May 17 in Skamokawa at 10 a.m. The course of 10k, 5k, or 2 miles is through the Julia Butler Hansen National Refuge. Recognition will be given for overall male and female winners in each event, and ribbons for the top three finishers in each age division. The registration deadline to guarantee a shirt is May 2. Mail in entries need to be received by May 16. Day of run registration and packet pickup starts at 8:30 a.m. at Skamokawa Vista Park. Fees for pre-run registration without shirt $10...
Wahkiakum High School sophomore athlete Gunnar Blix traveled to Poulsbo to compete in the Lil’ Norway Invitational track and field meet on Saturday at North Kitsap High School. Blix placed second in the shot put with a throw of 45’6” and fourth in the discus with a throw of 125’9”. He earned 13 points, putting the Mules in 11th place out of 13 teams. The Wahkiakum Mule track team travels to Napvine today (Thursday) to compete in Central League 2B meet....
GORGEOUS--As this week began, it was absolutely beautiful with nothing but sunshine and warm breezes, which felt oh so great! Actually, the entire weekend and even several days last week were great too, as my aching back can attest, as there were no bad weather excuses to put off digging into those flower beds! However, it looks like we'll all get to use the weather as an excuse by the time you read this, as more wet weather is due to move in, so I hope you got that lawn mowed and those new plants in the ground, as it's going to be time to...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: April 7 – 10:55 a.m. The Grays River ambulance responded to a Grays River home to aid a woman with a problem related to diabetes. 6:41 p.m. The Skamokawa Fire Department responded to the report of smoke at the site of a previous barn fire in the Skamokawa area. 9:19 p.m. A caller reported a possible DUI traveling west on SR 4 near County Line Park. 9:39 p.m. A Rosedale resident complained about being...
Rodgers Cook, age 94, passed away peacefully in his home in Vancouver, Washington. Rod was a long term resident on East Sunny Sands, Puget Island in the 1970's and 1980's. Rod enjoyed fishing on the beach; splitting shakes for his roof; and spending time with his friends from Cathlamet and Puget Island. Preceding Rod in death was his first wife, Ann, and his dear friends R.O. and Nina Watson; John and Ivy Jaspers; Marge and Bob Burns; Lily and Svery Pederson, and so many more. Rod is survived by his wife, Eileen and his two daughters, Carrie...
March 23, 1920-April 9, 2014 Evelyn Blix, 94, went to be home with the Lord on April 9, 2014. She was born on March 23, 1920 on Puget Island to Norwegian immigrant parents and graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1938. Evelyn married Marvel Henning Blix in 1939 on Puget Island, and together they enjoyed trips to Canada, Alaska, Arizona and Mexico, and family celebrations. Evelyn also took pleasure in being a loving mother and homemaker, a grandmother and great-grandmother, providing hospitality to all. She enjoyed bird-watching, ship-watchin...
Representatives from Pacific County PUD attended Tuesday morning’s Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners meeting to share their experience and knowledge in setting up a telecom system. Pacific County PUD has two offices, one in Long Beach and the other in Raymond. Initially, they needed a connection that would give both offices access to information in real time. They turned to fiber optics, eventually extending the infrastructure to each of their 10 substations. With the excess c...
Staff of Port District No. 2 continue to address two major projects for 2014. Commissioners on Tuesday approved consultant Karen Bertroch's plans to pursue grant support for their effort to create a display space for an historic Columbia River gillnet boat. Bertroch estimates the project will cost close to $40,000. She said she has two like funders that could yield $13,000. From there, she'll contact other potential donors to continue the fundraising effort. The port plans to create a display in which viewers may see down into the boat. Port...
With dredging in mind, the Port District 1 commissioners passed a motion for Port Manager Jackie Lea to begin the bid process for obtaining core samples in the marina, slough and Cathlamet Channel last Thursday. Sonar readings requested in June had finally arrived, held up by calibration problems in the equipment used by the surveyors. Commissioner Bob Kizziar shared that he had spoken with a couple congressmen and a senator’s aide at meetings he had recently attended. He related his concerns a...
Cathlamet photographer Genie Carey found the conditions favorable early Tuesday morning for photographing the eclipse of the moon, which in the earth's shadow, took on the reddish hue of the "blood moon." Here's a compilation of her photos....
Wahkiakum County Health and Human Services will revise their Friday office hours starting this week. County commissioners on Tuesday approved a recommendation from Administrator Sue Cameron, who proposed closing the department's office in the Courthouse Annex on Fridays. No services would be lost, and there would be no cost savings, she said, but there would be efficiencies "gained by concentrating staff on one campus and eliminating the need to have staff travel back and forth between offices to work with the public or manage projects." Two...
Wahkiakum Port District #2 will host a Grand Reopening of County Line Park on Saturday, April 26 from 1-3 p.m. Located along the shore of the Columbia River between Longview and Cathlamet, County Line Park has long been popular for fishing and overnight camping. Attractive for its proximity for watching ships passing by, and for a sandy beach for fishing along the river, the park is a busy place most of the year. The Park is owned by Wahkiakum County, but Port District #2 now operates the park after Cowlitz County decided they no longer wanted...
Wahkiakum County dispatchers apparently didn't miss any calls for emergency assistance when CentruyLink's emergency dispatching services went down statewide last week. Joannie Bjorge, chief civil deputy in the Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office, and regional dispatch center administrators will get together to discuss the outage. "There's a lot of discontent in the 9-1-1 world about CenturyLink," Bjorge told the Wahkiakum County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday. CenturyLink didn't notify the county that the system was down, Bjorge said;...
Former Mayor Dick Swart and his wife Dixie live in a house on the hill. They used to have three normal cats and an odd one named George. George lived to the ripe old age of 26 and would proudly preen while his veterinarian paraded students past the perfect specimen of Felis Catus. But this story isn’t about George. It’s about a love for trains and friends and history and art. The house was built in the mid-thirties, this much they know. They have a copy of the building plans, but it can’t be au...
SEATTLE (AP) -- About 4,500 calls failed to get through during a six-hour Washington state 911 outage last week, CenturyLink said Monday. Elaborating on an explanation it offered Friday, the telecommunications company said the outage was caused by a technical error in a third-party vendor's call router, which prevented the system from properly processing calls. In one case early Thursday, an Everett, Wash., woman said she made 37 calls about an intruder breaking into her home and had to drive him away herself with a knife. The problem did not...
To The Eagle: Wahkiakum County should permit the legal cultivation of marijuana and do so without further delay. Clearly, interest groups – including law enforcement and teen health advocates – favor a permanent ban, though it is unclear how that outcome would lower teen exposure to marijuana given that it will be grown elsewhere in the state and sold legally to adults. Two elements of the current debate concern me. First, opponents of cultivation are offering a one-sided analysis of the costs to our community. They say law...
Spring is definitely in the air with the smell of cherry blossoms, fresh mown grass, and many of the wildflowers beginning to bloom. The dogs are shedding their winter coats, and if you brush them outside and leave the fur, the birds are in a mad rush to pick it up and carry it off. A few butterflies are even appearing, and the hummingbird feeder needs to be refilled frequently. Nature sure has a beautiful way of beginning new life in the spring. News from Naselle Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams: Thursday (today), track at North...
Students at Wendt Elementary and Thomas Middle schools will present a Missoula Children's Theatre production, "The Secret Garden," this Saturday. Students will perform the show at 3 and 5:30 p.m. at Wahkiakum High School. Talking parts are Micca Cothren as Mrs. Medlock, Hannah Arn/Dickon, Ellie Leitz/Mary, Makaila Bigelow/Susan, Cadence Guest/Ayah, Kylee Thomason/Martha, Chuck Barton/Dr. Craven, Charlie Ashe/Colin Craven and Katie Stacey/Archibald Craven. Playing vines will be Autum J., Parker L., Camren M., Ruby D., Preston W., Tamara K.,...
Violet Isabelle Jane Lawrence was born March 27 at 10:50 p.m. at St John Hospital in Longview. She weighed 6.11 pounds and was 20 inches long. Her parents are Paul and Sarah Lawrence of Puget Island. Maternal grandparents are Harry and Debbie Harrison of Puget Island. Paternal grandparents are Derek and Linda Lawrence of London, England. Violet joins 3½ year old brother Thomas Lawrence....
According to information received from Wahkiakum School District, Kindergarten registration will be held the week of April 21st – April 25th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the grade school office. Requirements include a birth certificate and immunization information. For further information call 795-3261....
