Articles from the March 26, 2014 edition
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Mule baseball team gains victories in early games
The Wahkiakum Mule baseball team beat the Comets in Naselle on Monday in five innings with a score of 12-1. Starting pitcher Zach Brown struck out five, allowed one hit and one run and was given the...
High School Golf
The Wahkiakum Mule golf team moved their intra-team match record to 9-0 with a 187-208 victory over the Adna Pirates on Monday. A schedule change returned the Mules to Riverside Golf Course in Chehalis where they had played just four days earlier....
Many events are planned for April
NICE ONE--It was great to see the sunshine return last weekend but beings those days were accompanied by freezing temperatures at night, I hope any new plants you got anxious to put in the ground wound up making it through the nippy temperatures...
Sheriff's Report, March 27, 2014
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: March 17 – 8:42 a.m. Washington State Fish and Wildlife were notified about an ailing elk in the Rosedale...
Joanne Marie Chapman
Joanne Marie Chapman, who loved to be called Jo, was born in Longview on October 2, 1970 to parents Ken Chapman and Sonja Kruse of Rosburg. Joanne passed away peacefully March 18, 2014 at the Hospice Care Center with her family by her side. Joanne...
WHS winds up Doernbecher events
Doernbecher Week ended with an assembly on Monday to celebrate all the fun and hard work that went into the fundraising event. The members of the Doernbecher Court who raised the most money were...
What's Happening on Main Street
Cathlamet is going to be seeing a new business next door to the Eagle very soon--Cysciborg Holdings. Jerald Meiers and his wife Ladonna moved to Cathlamet last September from Bakken, North Dakota. With him comes “Steampunk Art” which is a uni...
Meetings set on elk illness
State wildlife managers believe they are close to determining the cause of hoof disease in southwest Washington elk and plan to hold meetings to share results to date and answer questions from the public. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife...
Legislature ends with basic ed funds unresolved
OLYMPIA--House Bill 2797 and Senate Bill 6483 have a lot in common. Both increased funding for K-3 classroom construction, both had bipartisan sponsorship and both failed to reach the governor’s desk. In McCleary v. Washington, the state Supreme Cour...
Historic gillnet boat to be restored and displayed
Port District #2 of Wahkiakum County now has ownership of the historic gillnet boat currently stored at the fairgrounds in Skamokawa. Built at the Wilson shipyards in Astoria sometime between1913 and 1916, it was sold to Walter Jacobsen, an Astoria...
Drop Anchor: Local craft brewery now open
“It takes a lot of practice to drink good beer,” Richard Erickson of Drop Anchor Brewery said. All that practice brought Erickson, Steve Sharp and Andy Lea to where they are now, with doors wide ope...
Dollars for Scholars launches new website, online student application
Wahkiakum Dollars for Scholars officially launched a new website on March 24 through a new software tool provided by Scholarship America, Dollars for Scholars’ parent organization. This new website will allow Wahkiakum Dollars for Scholars to help s...
Commissioners OK dike road closure
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday authorized the closure of Steamboat Slough Road for continued construction of the new setback dike on the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge. Poor weather last September stopped construction of the...
Ag students learn the care and feeding of chicks
Students in one of Kyle Hurley’s Agriculture classes at Wahkiakum High School are two weeks into a four week experiment that began with 16 Cornish hen chicks. Using the scientific method and four type...
Audubon steward to speak
Paul Engelmeyer, manager since 1990 of the Audubon Society Ten Mile Creek property south of Yachats, Ore., will be guest speaker at the March 29 meeting of the Willapa Hills Audubon Society. Englemeyer will discuss a range of issues including...
Advisory committees forming
Wahkiakum County commissioners are looking for persons interested in serving on two advisory committees. One will develop policies and a comprehensive plan to deal with the growing, producing and selling of marijuana in Wahkiakum County. The second...
Wrong message is being sent
To The Eagle: In all the posturing, hyperbole, and hysteria down at the courthouse since the announcement of plans for a couple of legal pot farms on Puget Island, the recurring mantra from the prohibitionists is, “We’ll be sending the wrong message...
Redmen Hall to close for updating, etc.
To The Eagle: The board of Friends of Skamokawa would like to update the Wahkiakum community about the status of Redmen Hall. We have a building held up by posts and beams that have been there since (as far as we know) the time Redmen Hall was moved...
Fun events offer lots to do in the Valley
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had found my first trillium. Well, on my walk with the dogs yesterday, I hit the jackpot. There must have been 300 trilliums in one little area of our woods. They were just beautiful, and I had never seen so...
Super sale, luncheon to be held on March 29
A Community In-Door Super Sale, Luncheon, and Massage Clinic will be held at Grays River Valley Center, Johnson Park, in Rosburg, on March 29. The hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Grays River Valley Center is the old Rosburg school which has...
North Oregon Coast Birdathon to take place April 12
Sign up now to participate in the North Oregon Coast Birdathon at www.NorthOregonCoastBirdathon.com. A Birdathon is similar to a walkathon but rather than raising funds per mile, funds are raised per bird species observed. Anyone can participate:...
Kiwanis Terrific Kids awards
Kiwanis Club of Cathlamet member Sheriff Mark Howie presented Kiwanis Terrific Kids awards as part of an awards assembly March 17 at Julius Wendt Elementary School. Award winners were: Front, left to right: Parker Leitz, Chace Andree, Tylor Watkins,...
Gardening camp to be held in July
A fun and educational experience for kids will be held this summer. On July 7-11, WSU Master Gardeners will host Camp Luqal Luqal from 8 to 11:30 a.m. for youth in grades 1-3. Camp will be held for youth in grades 3-5 from 1 to 4 p.m. The week-long...
Author signing for book on Grays River area
The Appelo Archives is pleased to offer a new book, Finns of the Grays River Area. Written by Merle Reinikka, the book was published by the Finnish American Historical Society of the West in Portland. It lists individual families of the Grays River,...
