Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Wahkiakum County Coroner’s Office used DNA and genealogy to identify a Jane Doe whose body was discovered on the shore of Puget Island 26 years ago. Ramona Lorene Hughes, a Yakima woman born on July 6, 1956, had not been seen since late 1997 or early 1998. Last year, former Clark County death investigator Nikki Costa joined Wahkiakum County as a volunteer deputy coroner to investigate cases involving unidentified persons. Costa found an affordable lab that could perform whole genome s...
Lower Columbia College’s (LCC) automotive technology program has received Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Training Program accreditation from the ASE Education Foundation. LCC’s automotive program is now accredited at the Master Automobile Service Technology level, the highest program accreditation recognized by the ASE. To achieve this recognition, the ASE Education Foundation rigorously evaluated the college’s automotive technology program. The evaluation used nationally accepted standards of excellence in areas such as instr...
Ballots for the August 2024 election have been submitted and Wahkiakum County’s voter turnout came in second in Washington State with 52.39 percent of voters turning in a ballot. Lee Tischer was elected County Commissioner #1, garnering 71 percent of the vote. Running unopposed, Dan Cothren was elected County Commissioner #2. Democrat Maria Cantwell won 43.17 percent of the Wahkiakum vote for Senator and 57.49 percent statewide over Dr. Raul Garcia. For Congressional District 3, 45.95 percent of Wahkiakum residents voted for Marie G...
The Town of Cathlamet is pleased to announce that the long-awaited skateboard park at Erickson Park has been completed and is ready for use. The original concrete slab for the Skateboard facility at Erickson Park was laid in 2004 as a result of a community fundraising and construction, led by now-County Commissioner Lee Tischer and many others. All construction on the slab, where the new skate park now sits, was completed entirely by volunteers. The site languished for many years, despite the...
Wahkiakum Animal Advocates Group (WAAG) would like to provide a heart warming update. The dogs and puppies rescued from a logging site in Skamokawa have found their forever homes after three months in foster care. In May, WAAG received an urgent call from a logger working miles off West Valley Road who reported puppies running around the logging site. WAAG quickly sprang into action and worked with the loggers and neighbors to corral the four husky puppies and two adult huskies. Two black lab...
Rodney Guy Dunham was born June 14, 1937, in Grays River Washington and died at home on August 6, 2024 at the age of 87. Rodney was born to Guy and Edith (Magnuson) in Grays River and attended the Grays River Elementary school until eight grade. He met Elizabeth Ann (Beth) Quigley at the county fair, and they married July 11th 1959 on Puget Island and settled in Grays River. Rodney was a foreman for the Wahkiakum Road Department for the majority of his career. He was a lover of vintage cars and enjoyed taking people for rides. Rodney is...
On August 24, from 6-9 p.m., the Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities of Southwest Washington and the Cathlamet Woman’s Club will be sponsoring the second annual Cathlamet Senior Prom at the Hope Center. Attendees will be serenaded by the musical talents of Cedar Mora, whose melodies will fill the room as dancers sway to the euphony of his notes. Beverages and light refreshments will be served as guests mingle and connect over the cheerful atmosphere. In-house photographer Ken Jayne will be t...
In an age of information, community-based organizations are still often the bewildered keepers of best-kept secrets. Spend any amount of time around a passionate person working for a nonprofit, and you will inevitably hear a baffled “I can’t believe more people don’t know about this program.” It’s a problem that’s magnified in rural communities, where because of physical logistics, headquarter-directed focus, and lack of funding, assistance can sometimes reach rural folks much later, making them feel left out and forgotten. People like Teresa...
GRAY BEGINNINGS. While some folks are missing the morning sunshine and hot weather, I am enjoying the cloudy skies and cooler temperatures that have opted to show up. Far more comfortable when one is outside having to do all that yard work that is never-ending. However, that yard work is best done in the early mornings, as the sun often peeks out later on. It got quite warm and muggy despite the thermometer reading in the so-called moderate zone. Once that humidity kicks in, it’s miserable. The only spoiler alert I see is that we have a 35 p...
August 5 10:53 a.m. The district four fire chief let the Sheriff’s office know that he spoke with people at Wage’s swimming hole who were cooking over a campfire. 11:19 a.m. A Elochoman Valley homeowner spoke to the Sheriff’s department about trespassing and harassment by their neighbors. Deputies told the person it was a civil matter and let them know how to proceed with the courts. 6:52 p.m. Cathlamet emergency services responded to a Puget Island address where an elderly person had fallen. 6:54 p.m. A caller at the Elochoman Slough marin...
The Minntah Quartet with Special Guest Jimmy Herrod will perform at Jazz on the River, presented by Little Island Creamery and the Astoria Jazz Festival, on Sunday Sept. 1, from 2-4 p.m. Dinner will be prepared by Surf 2 Soul. Tickets are $95 and include the show, dinner and one drinkTickets are available through Eventbrite (search for Little Island Creamery) The Minntah Quartet, formed by the young, award-winning singer Minntah Haefker has been gathering steam on the local northwest music...
Some years ago, during efforts to maintain the Deep River cemetery and push back the encroaching forest flora, a small grave stone was discovered outside of the fenced burial ground at the edge of the woods. The top of the gravestone was adorned with a sculpture of a lamb laying down signifying the grave of a lamb of God. While years of exposure had dulled the once crisp engraved lettering, it could still be seen the grave stone was for a child named Ihannelma Maunula who was born in 1890 and...
