The Wahkiakum County Eagle - Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891

Local students are wrapping up this week their exams in the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL). The WASL began in 1993 after educators, legislators and representatives of business and industry agreed that graduating high school...

The Wahkiakum County Democratic Party will hold a convention this Saturday at the Duck Inn, Skamokawa. Registration starts at 9 a.m., the meeting will call to order at 9:45 a.m. The convention is for all delegates elected at the Wahkiakum Democratic...

April 10 at Onalaska Girls: Toledo 128.5, White Pass 97.5, Wahkiakum 88.5, Onalaska 74.5 . . . Mule results (top 10) 100m--1. Jasmine Bingham 12.98; 5. Whitley Wirkkala 13.84. 200m--1. Bingham 27.07; 2. Valle Ledtke 27.17. 1600m--6. Jori McEntire...

Port District No. 2 administrators hope to be able to call for bids to construct Svensen Park next week. Port Manager Steve McClain reported at the Tuesday meeting of Port 2 commissioners that consulting engineers are awaiting the permit for the...

Clam diggers received Tuesday approval for a morning razor clam dig starting April 19 at four ocean beaches after marine toxin tests showed the clams at those beaches are safe to eat. Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Copalis and Mocrocks will all be open...

The new-used transformer purchase was just one of the topics of discussion at the April 15 Wahkiakum PUD meeting. Steve Mills, a representative for General Pacific, gave the board a presentation regarding “smart meters,” which utilities will have the...

The short spring salmon season on the lower Columbia River is gone, but issues still remain for Port District No. 1. Fishery managers in Washington and Oregon reduced the season to less than two weeks as a means of sparing fish destined for the...

The hounds will be running on Puget Island this weekend at the All-Breed AKC Lure Coursing Field Trial. The event is sponsored by the Willamette Valley Basenji Club and will include a wide variety of sighthounds. The event will begin each day with...

Landowners along the proposed liquefied natural gas pipeline routes are invited to a public information meeting sponsored by the Columbia River Clean Energy Coalition. The meeting will be today (Thursday) at 6 p.m., at the Clatskanie River Inn, 600 E...

Editor's note: Dr. Terry Kriesel of Puget Island will be teaching this school year in a Taiwanese seminary. We invited him to share his observations of life in Taiwan on an occasional basis. Here is his latest dispatch: A four year old Taiwanese boy...

The Wahkiakum County Fair is beginning its search for this year's Fair Royalty. The contest is open to both male and female students. The King or Queen of this year's fair, the county's 100th, will be eligible to earn a sales award of a $300...

Dr. Andrew Bacevich will give the William Vest Memorial Lecture at the LCC Student Center May 1 at 7:30 p.m. A professor of history and international relations at Boston University, Dr. Bacevich is the author of several books, and his op-eds have...

The Scarborough Building will soon have a new display, thanks to a generous donation by Ruby Martha (Scarborough) Keating. The exhibit, consisting mostly of old time pictures of Cathlamet can be seen in the display case inside the Scarborough Buildin...

Classical sax comes to Pioneer Church Northstar, a saxophone quartet from the Seattle area, will be at Cathlamet’s Pioneer Church on April 26 at 7 p.m. Jay Easton, the founder of the group, says the group can take the familiar jazz sounds of the saxo...

Advocates for crime victims are developing a presence in southwest Washington. The state's Crime Victim Advocacy Program was started in 1990, but advocates continue to make their presence known in regional services. Tuesday, advocates visited the...