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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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We’ve all heard the saying, “Change is hard!” Surely, that is why so many of us make New Year’s resolutions only to forget about them after a few short weeks into January. The self-discipline necessary to make changes in our lives to improve add and subtract from our lives to improve is much harder than simply writing resolutions on a piece of paper! Instead, we find ourselves waving a white flag of surrender, retreating to our comfort zones for another year. That is not the case for a handful...
The 2025 Washington commercial crab season is officially in full swing, with several local crabbers delivering their first offloads of the season on Thursday, Jan. 16, at local ports along the Long Beach Peninsula.”There are a lot of jumbos, nice and hard two-pounders. It’s a very good product.” reported Florian Mumford, captain of the F/V Vengeance. Fishermen reported strong currents and steep competition among the opening-day hurdles, leading to lower-than-normal catch volumes. However, the $5.75 opening record price from processors has b...
Please help! The Wahkiakum County Historical museum would like help identifying the people in this photo. Museum staff noticed that some of the women in the photograph were wearing pants which was unusual for this era of photography. Email wahkiakumhistory@gmail.com....
Did you know there is Board of Trustees which oversees and governs the Cathlamet Public Library? And as you know, the library serves all of Wahkiakum County. Anyone in our county can get a library card for free. Well, I’m one of the library trustees, and a recent one at that. And I thought, “Hey, if we are a library for the whole county, we should have voices from the whole county on the board.” I knew about the Johnson Park Library but had never stopped by to check it out, so a few weeks ago I stopped in and met Carillon Nicol who is the l...
At the Board of County Commissioners meeting this month, Wahkiakum County Health & Human Services (WCHHS) staff presented the Community Health Advocate program. This partnership between WCHHS and the Wahkiakum High School is over a decade long and has been helping students make better choices for their health. In Wahkiakum County, Community Health Advocates are students themselves - freshmen through seniors. They are employed by the County and paid for time in and out of the school to learn and educate their peers on a variety of health...
The Senior Friendship Group started as a Facebook Page to allow Wahkiakum seniors to make connections and new friends. Some seniors have mobility issues and have difficulty getting out and about, and this group gave them an online space to meet, chat, answer daily questions, and share photos. Soon, Pastor Jeff at the Lutheran Church offered the basement of the church as a place for the group members to meet in person. There is now a monthly potluck, and weekly meetings of groups with various interests. There is no cost to join the Senior...
I dropped in briefly at Rosburg Hall on Saturday evening to take some pictures at the American Legion’s annual Crab and Oyster Feed dinner at Rosburg Hall. The hall was packed with hungry patrons. Nick Nikkila reported to me there were 199 paid attendees. Fifty items were raffled off, including a Benjamin Marauder high pressure .22 caliber air rifle, the booze wagon, and a cord of firewood exclusively for seniors, won by Sonja Kruse for the second time. There was also an auction that featured it...
The Naselle-Grays River Valley School Board met for their monthly meeting on Jan. 21. During Public Comment, Luke Gardner expressed his desires regarding the selection of a new superintendent stating, “Please choose wisely with a new administrator lead. Please look for someone with good communication skills. Please find one who will be truthful and transparent, and can communicate.” Roman Garcia, an eighth grader, bravely addressed the school board with his request. He said, “Today I am coming before the school board to ask that myself and a...
The big news, if you haven’t already read the news release from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for February 2025, is the implementation by the agency of some brand new regulations surrounding the traditional smelt fishery on the Cowlitz River. Biologists determined that populations of Columbia River smelt, or eulachon as they’re technically known, began to decline in the mid-1990s. In 2001, the Washington-Oregon Eulachon Management Plan was drafted; nine years later in 2010, Col...
Columbia Artist Association-SW Washington, announces an open call to artists in Cowlitz, Clark, Wahkiakum, Lewis, Pacific, Clatsop, and Columbia counties for our 2025 Spring Show. Artwork in oils, acrylics, watercolor, mixed mediums along with 3-D creations will be featured at the juried showing, March 22 – April 12, 2025, held at the Cowlitz County Historical Museum in Kelso, WA. Artists need not be a CAA member to enter. Items to be entered into the show will be received on Tuesday, March 18, from 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. For more information a...
January 20 6:26 a.m. Cathlamet Ambulance responded to a Puget Island resident who was having a nosebleed. 10:26 a.m. A Grays River resident called to report that they found a dead bull elk on their neighbor’s property. 2:47 p.m. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a drug kit found in Cathlamet. 5:08 p.m. Cathlamet Fire Department responded to complaints of a toxic, burning smell on Beaver Creek Rd. firefighters found the fire and extinguished it. January 21 10:01 a.m. Sheriff’s deputies responded to a burglary report on Rosburg Schoo...
COLD ENOUGH? Well, as I begin this column, it is dropping in the lower twenties, and I must tell you, I’m not a fan of that kind of cold... brr! As a matter of fact, it dropped 20 degrees in only 90 minutes here in West Valley earlier. The decent temperatures we saw earlier in the day were gone in a flash as the temperatures plummeted. From the sound of it, many folks were having plumbing problems, which I’m guessing were related to the extreme cold and resulted in frozen and broken pipes. I do hope you’re all doing better in that regard by no...
The girls basketball season is steaming along, and Wahkiakum and Naselle both have teams competing to try and make it to the 1B state playoffs this year. Wahkiakum The Mules have had mixed results this season but have more wins than losses, and their overall record currently stands at 8-6. Though the overall record is just above .500, the Mules have played some of their best basketball in their conference games. Wahkiakum has a 6-1 conference record, sufficient to see them in second place in the...
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The Clatskanie High School girls basketball team is currently riding a five-game winning streak and have won 11 out of their last 12 games following Monday's 56-29 win at Portland Christian. The Tigers set the tone early by nearly doubling up the Royals 17-9 entering the second quarter. Clatskanie would continue to make its lead more unattainable by its host, outscoring Portland Christian 16-7 and 17-5 in the second and third quarters respectively. Junior Joey Sizemore led the team in points...
