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

Wahkiakum County commissioners had a quiet meeting Tuesday with a light agenda. With Commissioner Dan Cothren absent and attending a meeting of the state Board of Natural Resources, Commissioners Blair Brady and Mike Backman approved a request from...

To The Eagle: The brouhaha over legalized pot that has churned through several recent editions of the Eagle has been entertaining and informative -- I have 'em neatly filed as "The Pakalolo Papers." The protagonists, coming at it from several directi...

To The Eagle: We are submitting this letter to encourage our fellow residents of Wahkiakum County to vote for Greg Prestegard for County Commissioner, Dist. 1. We got to know Greg when we hired him to do a building project for us. He runs a solid,...

CHANGED--We had some good weather and some wet weather Labor Day weekend and it sure depended on where you were as to just what you got. While we had some downpours here in West Valley and put on our rain jackets and sweatshirts to head to...

THURSDAY Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Puget Island Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. Port District No. 1, 500 2nd St., 5 p.m. District No. 4...

Hooray for the rain. We really need it as everything has turned brown. Hopefully it will also help with some of the fire danger as well. It looks like some of the farmers are also feeding hay to their cattle, as the grazing is pretty much non-...

Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: August 30 — 7:21 a.m. A Puget Island resident reported that his wife had threatened to kill him. A p...

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop has announced the free autumn 2016 speaker series, In Their Footsteps. The first program in this monthly series is The Kanaka Connection: Hawaii and the Western Fur Trade presented by Junius...

It’s time for all fourth graders and their families to claim their free Every Kid in a Park pass which allows free entry into all federal parks, forests, and recreation areas for a full year. Starting September 1st, fourth graders can print out a p...

Liza Jo Neer died August 24, 2016 at the home of her mother in Cathlamet. She was born July 23, 1961 in Boston, Mass. She attended school in Mass. and Maine and graduated high school in 1979. She worked as a day care provider for several years and...

Seattle residents Brandon Simmons, left, and Jacob Nelson, right, journeyed to St. Paul, Minn., to be married on Sept. 3. Brandon is the son of Helen Martin and Butch Simmons of St. Paul, and is an actor, writer, director, and producer in Seattle...

County wide food drive set for September 17 The community is invited to participate in the 3rd Annual Food for Friends food drive. The food collected during the drive will be evenly distributed among the food banks of Wahkiakum County which are the...

The Julia Butler Hansen Heritage Center will be open for tours Thursday, September 15, from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. The Center is located on Main St., and is the oldest house in Cathlamet and Wahkiakum County having been built in the late 1860's. It...

The Stella Historical Society will hold their annual Remnants of the Past program on September 10 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Visitors will find a museum, blacksmith shop housing logging equipment and working forge, a display of horse drawn and other...

WordFest’s fall season begins with a strong line-up of authors on Tuesday, September 13, 6-8 p.m., at Cassava Coffee shop in Longview. Kate Ristau is a Portland folklorist and author of young adult and middle grade fiction. She taught at the U...

Volunteer registration is now open for anyone who wants to help count the number of people who walk or ride bicycles to their destinations during a three-day survey starting Tuesday, Sept. 27. Volunteer support is vital to the success of this...

A gospel concert by His Praise Men’s Chorus will be held Saturday, September 17, 3 p.m., at the Long Beach Seventh-day Adventist Church located at 2707 Pacific Ave., N. His Praise is a group of about 25 men drawn from the Portland and Vancouver a...

Lower Columbia College (LCC) has announced that Tom Hansen is the 2016 Alumni of the Year. Hansen began his community college education at LCC in 1955, and attended for two years before transferring to the University of Washington (UW) to pursue a...

A Snohomish County angler has set a new state record for the biggest largemouth bass caught in state waters, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) confirmed August 12. Bill Evans of Bothell caught the monster bass Aug. 8 in Lake...

On October 8 at 10 a.m., Billie Bevers, Washington State University Master Gardener, will present a workshop on how to harvest mason bees cocoons. During the spring and summer other bees, diseases and parasites can invade mason bee nests. This two...