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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The Bundle Up With Books online reading challenge runs Jan. 1-Feb. 29, 2024. Anyone from preschool age through adults can participate. Record your reading minutes on the Cathlamet Public Library Beanstack website or on the Beanstack app to earn badges. Choose from a selection of prizes upon completion of all the book badges. Register for the challenge online or log into your existing Beanstack account at cathlamet.beanstack.org, or in the Beanstack app (Apple or Android). You may also register by calling the Library at 360-795-3254, or by...
A BRAND NEW YEAR. Here we are in 2024, and it seems like 2023 just flew by! Now we will all have to get used to writing 2024 on everything, just when we've gotten used to writing 2023. At any rate, I hope you had a good New Year’s Eve and enjoyed a good time no matter what you did. I know I enjoyed my dinner out at our local restaurant but I didn't stay for the late-night festivities; I was one of many who opted to watch the new year come in from the comfort of my couch in my living room! I think getting older has something to do with that, b...
December 26 11:46 a.m. A Grays River resident reported a power outage. The PUD responded. 11:46 a.m. A homeowner said that two people traveling in rafts down the Elochoman River were trespassing on his property, trampling it after landing, and setting up camp. 2:29 p.m. A caller said a gift was stolen from a parcel locker at the post office in Cathlamet. 2:41 p.m. The Grays River ambulance provided a lift assist to a Rosburg resident. The individual refused transport to the hospital. 2:53 p.m. A caller reported that a westbound driver in a...
I have some fun news. A couple years ago Ken Johnson asked me to do some interviews of local folks, so I have done quite a few. I hope to do more this year because it would be great to have more videos available so the families can see these folks for years to come. You can now watch them at columbiacoasttv.com. Five interviews have been loaded to the website, so please check them out so you can hear more about these folks. It's so fun to see them now available to the public. A series of...
In the first Commissioners meeting of the year the board convened with Dan Cothren as chair. They began the meeting by reappointing the members of the County Fair board, the Board of Equalization, and by renewing the service agreement with the county museum. Additionally the commissioners agreed to match the funding for the community pool with the Town of Cathlamet up to $50,000. Duncan Cruickshank of Wahkiakum Health and Human Services (WHHS) told the commissioners about his effort to renew employees training in Moral Reconation Therapy...
The Wahkiakum County PUD held their State of the Utility on Tuesday, Dec. 19, with the commissioners and entire staff on hand to hear the report. “This is just a big thank you to the commissioners and the staff for all the hard work they’ve put in,” General Manager Dan Kay said. The hour-long presentation covered the utility’s finances, staff, infrastructure, system reliability statistics, a review of 2023, and plans for the coming year. Or, as Kay put it, “People, pipes, and poles.” ...
The future of the Cathlamet Town Hall is up in the air after an inspection uncovered leaks and mold. On Monday, Dec. 18, the town council agreed to a temporary fix; approving a five year lease for space in the Scarborough Building. Town employees expect to move into the new offices by the end of January, but efforts to solve the problem in the long term are just beginning. Four days earlier at the Wahkiakum County Port 1 meeting, Mayor David Olson spoke to port commissioners about what he...
The Cathlamet Public Library invites community members with small children to toddler and preschool storytime, Wednesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. at the library. The library will be open for additional hours this winter, from 10 a.m. to noon throughout January and February. Storytime will take place in the children's picture book area and will last approximately 20 minutes. Contact the library at 360-795-3254 for more information. The library is located at 115 Columbia Street in Cathlamet....
Ramps, half pipes, and quarter pipes will finally be installed in a long hoped for skatepark at Erickson Park in early 2024. Mayor David Olson thanked Lee Tischer, now a Wahkiakum County Commissioner, and everyone else involved in fundraising and for laying the foundation for a skatepark in Cathlamet so many years ago. “We’re going to finish it and make it better,” Olson said. The Cathlamet Town Council unanimously approved a bid of $93,000 plus tax from American Ramp Company to build the skate...
MERRY CHRISTMAS! As I begin to write, it is actually Christmas Day, a very wet and blustery one, so I hope my power stays on long enough to finish it up and send it in. There is a high wind warning for this evening, so I'm planning on “batting down the hatches” and hunkering down inside. I hope you're all enjoying the holiday and I hope to hear more about it once everyone settles back into their routine when Christmas is over. Christmas morning is only the beginning of the festivities for most folks; I hope all the dinner plans went well, you...
December 18 8:18 a.m. A Deep River resident received a note from a postal carrier about dead animals being left around his mailbox. The caller believed it had been going on for nearly a year and suspected that a neighbor might be responsible. 3:05 p.m. Authorities in Cowlitz County requested a tender for a vehicle at Abernathy Creek that was on fire. The District 4 Fire Department responded. 4:05 p.m. A driver asked for assistance after getting locked out of a vehicle. 5:01 p.m. A caller reported a youth loitering at the intersection of Main St...
THURSDAY Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9:30-11 a.m. West End Food Pantry, Johnson Park, 1- 5 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, 7:30 p.m. Puget Island Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Food Addicts Meeting, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 6-7 p.m. FRIDAY River City Strippers, St. Catherine Catholic Church, 9 a.m.-3 p.m AA Meeting, Hope...
The Town of Cathlamet’s offices are moving to the Scarborough Building, possibly as early as the end of January. The Cathlamet Town Council voted quickly and unanimously at their meeting on Monday night to authorize Mayor David Olson to sign a five year, $1,250/month lease agreement with David Nelson, who owns the property. Town Clerk Sarah Clark and the new Clerk Assistant/Project Manager Annie Watters met with Nelson recently to discuss the lease. Nelson agreed to install HVAC before June, t...
December 11 12:39 p.m. A person who was issued a no contact order stepped outside a restaurant in Cathlamet when he saw the two people who were protected by it, he said. They ran away, but he believed they were harassing him. A deputy told the individual that it was his responsibility to follow all rules in the restraining order and advised him to get an anti-harassment order if he was feeling harassed. 12:49 p.m. A caller reported a large rock, about 12-14 inches in diameter, in the westbound lane of SR 4 just east of Flandersville. A deputy...
THURSDAY Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9:30-11 a.m. West End Food Pantry, Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, 7:30 p.m. Puget Island Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Food Addicts Meeting, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 6-7 p.m. FRIDAY River City Strippers, St. Catherine Catholic Church, 9 a.m.-3 p.m AA Meeting, Hope...
To The Eagle: I’m troubled to read letters that wrote ill words on Trump. Those four years that he was president I felt were the best years our country has ever been in mentally, physically, and especially economically. The chaos we’re now experiencing since Biden and his bureaucrats took over: we’re suffering high inflation and interest rates; high price in gas and food. They shut down the southern borders allowing illegal immigrants and terrorists to come in making our country unsafe. They shut down the Keystone pipeline, mandated lockd...
Although the Wahkiakum County Public Utilities District manages the Puget Island Water System, the water is supplied through a contract with the Town of Cathlamet, which owns a water source in the Elochoman Valley. This source also provides water to the town’s customers. In the last year or two there has been a lot of talk at the PUD about finding a secondary source of water for Puget Island customers and to provide redundancy in the system. It’s not a new subject. As a utility responsible for...
December 4 12:15 a.m. A resident in a Cathlamet apartment said the whole building was shaking and believed it might be from a washing machine located downstairs. 12:52 a.m. The gate to a cell tower in Rosedale was found unlocked. A deputy responded and secured the site. 7:34 p.m. A caller reported that the Department of Natural Resources was implementing slash burns on KM. 8:36 a.m. A caller said that a tree branch and other debris were blocking the westbound lane of SR 4 east of Nassa Point. 11:59 a.m. A caller said he lost a handgun,...
When Frankie Mendez, a former wrestling coach for Wahkiakum High School, mentioned that the program needed leadership to continue, Kyliegh Harlin decided to step up. A native of Kalama, she graduated from Kalama High School in 2007 before moving to Cathlamet in 2015 with her family. A one time paraeducator at the district, Harlin has been selling real estate for Realty West for the past four years. "It was put on my heart to help and make sure that these kids had a team and were given an opportu...
THURSDAY Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Johnson Park advisory board. 10:00 a.m. Great Rivers Behavioral Health Org. Board, 1217 Mellen St. Centralia WA 11:00 a.m. West End Food Pantry, Johnson Park, 1- 5 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, 7:30 p.m. Puget Island Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Food Addicts Meeting, Hope Center, 3r...
Another wonderful Shop With a Cop will go down in the books as one of the best days of the year! We couldn't have done it without all the donors, volunteers, officers, and first responders' other halves who gave their time and heart to spend time rounding up gifts with children in our county last Saturday. There are too many volunteers to name but I'd like a special shout out to the donors who gave so graciously to make this event happen! Donors include: Beau Renfro, The Duck Inn, Our Saviours...
Benefactors are coming forward as the Town of Cathlamet contemplates what to do and where to go after receiving a report about the mold, leaks, and other problems plaguing their current Town Hall. Mayor David Olson said the owner of the Scarborough building offered them a potential space to rent in the short or long term at the town council meeting on Monday. “It’s not in the budget, but on the other hand we have a dire situation in our current town hall,” Olson said, adding that the town may h...
During public comments at the Wahkiakum County Public Utilities District Board of Directors meeting Tuesday a community member, Tom Gartski, noted the amount of money spent on tree trimming by the utility this past summer to alleviate problems along SR 4. “Unfortunately mother nature doesn’t listen,” Gartski said. He marked the number of power outages along that corridor east of Cathlamet in the last year at eight. “I used to be a volunteer firefighter for District 4,” he said. “I was out there...
On Nov. 29, in the early morning hours, while most of Cathlamet slept, a Rosedale resident called 911 to say his water pressure was almost gone. A little later, another caller living nearby reported low water pressure. Then, dispatch received a call from a resident living at the intersection of Columbia Street and SR 4 on the east end of town. He said there was a major leak nearby. Water was flowing across the road and flooding his yard. “We do not have an explanation for why the pipe r...
SPECIAL DAYS. Celebrating birthdays this week are Dennis Reid, Julie Iverson, Kitty Speranza, Carol McClain, Jai Snow, Tom Bosch, Cristina Moonen, Nora Sorenson, Gary Bergseng, Ryan Prestegard, Justin Watkins, Chris Barnes, Ron Hendrickson, Collin Parker, Todd Souvenir, Derek West, Lacey Johnson, Julie Burdick, Tyler Johnson, James Robinson, Donna Downing Christensen, Alexandra Wright, Patrice Everest Holtz and Lucy Owen. Happy Anniversary wishes go out to Mr. and Mrs. Zack Bonds and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Vik. May all of you have terrific...
