Articles from the September 8, 2011 edition
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Pirates toss Mules in season opener
The Adna Pirates showed they merit their high early season ranking as they tore apart the Wahkiakum Mules 39-14 in their first game on their new field last Friday. The Pirates scored three first quarter touchdowns and piled up 158 rushing yards and...
Mules prepare for volleyball competition
The Wahkiakum Mule volleyball team is preparing for the start of the 2011 volleyball season. Competition starts Tuesday when Winlock comes to WHS. The team returns 10 players from last year's state qualifying team. "The team is anxious to start...
FOS Cornucopia of Wines Saturday
NICE STREAK--It seems summer finally arrived, just in time for the kids to go back to school. Football and Fall are heading our way, as the sun has been shining and the temperatures rising. We should be nice all week but computer models are showing...
Sheriff's Report - September 8, 2011
August 29--1:33 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid a Rosedale woman who was fainting. 10:42 p.m. Officers responded to KM Mountain where a vehicle had run off SR 4 and gone into a ditch; no one was injured. August 30--12:41 a.m. Officers...
Philip ‘Tim’ McNally
Philip Timothy McNally, 54, of Littlerock, passed away August 5, 2011, at home with his loving wife, best friend, and soul mate, Cindy Ellington McNally by his side. Tim was born January 1, 1957, in Longview, to Bob and Joanne McNally. He attended...
PUD board works on budget, rate hikes
The Wahkiakum Public Utility District Board of Commissioners reviewed projected 2012 budgets and set rate hearings for water and electric customers at its meeting Tuesday. The board intends to collect a 9 percent increase for the electric side of...
Flu vaccine available soon, health official say
Wahkiakum County residents may soon be able to obtain their annual influenza vaccinations. Dr. Alan Melnick, county public health officer, said vaccine supplies are being shipped and will be available soon. "It's not too soon to be vaccinated," he...
Farmstock celebrates farm and food
On the warm Labor Day weekend, Fred Johnson opened his Naselle farm for a celebration of farming, good food and music called Farmstock, as a fundraiser for KMUN Coast Radio. Farmstock brought together regional farmers, musicians and those seeking to...
Fair attendance top last year's mark
The 2011 Wahkiakum County Fair may now be passed, but work continues for Fair Manager Becky Ledtke and members of the county fair board. Ledtke and three fair board members appeared Tuesday at the meeting of the board of county commissioners to...
County to hire consultant for dike fix concepts
Local governmental agencies have agreed to engage a consulting engineer to look for solutions to the erosion of the Steamboat Slough dike. In one area, the bank is sluffing into the Columbia River, and Wahkiakum County has closed the outside traffic...
Permit process is strangling progress
To The Eagle: Several jokes in my repertoire, both straight and risque, start with Luigi coming ashore from Ellis Island with two bits in his pocket, filling a box with fruit and veggies for sale and graduating quickly to pushcart, then trucks, then...
Information from BOE helpful
To The Eagle: Recently Puget Island Landowners were mailed a letter and a valuation order for their parcel from the county Board of Equalization (BOE). I asked tor additional information to better understand what I had received. Colleen Haley, Clerk...
No. 11-104
NOTICE OF HEARING ON THE 2012 BUDGET OF PORT DISTRICT NO. TWO OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the preliminary budget of Port District No. Two of Wahkiakum County, Washington, for the fiscal year 2012, has been filed in the Office of...
No. 11-103
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION RESOLUTION FOR THE 2011 BUDGET OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY, WASHINGTON NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Wahkiakum County, Washington, will conduct a public...
No. 11-102
NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF MEETING FOR THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the September 20, 2011, regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners for Wahkiakum County shall be cancelled. The next...
No. 11-101
PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council will hold its regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday, September 14, 2011, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Heritage Room of the Administration Building, Lower Columbia...
What's Happening at the Fair?
The greatest news this week has to be about Mike and Carrie Backman. Two very nice people in our community met, fell in love and were married last Saturday. They held their reception in the Fairgrounds Park and invited all family and friends to...
Patriot Day: A 9/11 observance
Following is a proclamation from the Wahkiakum County Board of Commissioners: Sunday, September 11, 2011 Patriot Day Whereas, US House of Representatives Joint Resolution 71 was approved by a vote of 470-0 on October 25, 2001. It requested that the p...
Fund raising efforts for service dog continue
I’m not complaining but don’t you find it unusual that it is raining in Yucca Valley, California, and not in Grays River? With all this warm dry weather, we have been able to finally put down our hardwood flooring and are in process of putting the...
