Articles from the September 27, 2012 edition
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Mules dump Trojans; host Loggers Friday
Photo: Blocker Nathan Cothren (77) leads Mule ballcarrier Austin Good on a running play against Pe Ell. Photo courtesy of Wendy Blix. In the tale of two halves, the Wahkiakum Mules defeated the Pe Ell Trojans 28-18 last Friday. The 4-0 Mules led...
Lady Mules edge Toutle Lake 3-2
Photo:Wahkiakum Lady Mule setter Haylee Budd puts the ball up in the air for Baylee Olsen to hit in the Mules' 3-2 match win over Toutle Lake last Thursday. Photo by Rick Nelson. The Wahkiakum Lady Mules volleyball team came on strong at the end to...
Cross Country Results
September 20 at Morton/White Pass Wahkiakum Mens Results 5,000 Meters Varsity: 53. Luke Stacey 22:10; 64. JR Ramirez 23:07; 82. Nevan Bingham 27:26. Wahkiakum Womens Results 5,000 Meters Varsity: 18. Rory Heywood 25:22. From Wahkiakum Coach Marie...
Vikings ground Comets
Photo: Chandler Chapman and Victoria Corona reigned as king and queen of the Naselle High School Homecoming Celebration last Friday. With the reader board flashing the word “Homecoming” to oncoming traffic, spectators crowded around Reuben Pen...
Fall means time for Country Days festival
END OF ANOTHER MONTH--Well, as you can see, we're in the countdown of yet another month with a new one beginning on Monday; seems impossible but yet, October is on its way. Can you feel the nip in the air? Well, we'd better be enjoying Fall as the...
Sheriff's Report - September 27, 2012
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: September 17--10:49 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid a Jacobson Road woman who had an enlarged...
Sullivan seeks re-election as judge
Normally under state law, when a candidate for superior court judge receives over 50 percent of the vote in the primary, that candidate advances unopposed to the general election ballot. However, rules are different when write in candidates are...
Port 2 planning for plan update
Commissioners of Port District No. 2 of Wahkiakum County took another step toward updating their comprehensive plan when they met September 18. Karen Bertroch, chair of the Columbia Pacific Resource Conservation and Economic Development District...
Man guilty of killing former local resident
A Boundary County, Idaho jury has found a man guilty of second degree murder of former Cathlamet resident Anna Old. The defendant, John August Funkhouser, a former Naselle resident, will be sentenced on October 22. Old and Funkhouser had been a...
Library gets temporary home
Friday and Saturday of last week volunteers at the Cathlamet Blanche Bradley Public Library helped pack up and categorize books to move the entire library to its temporary home on the bottom floor of the River Street Building. Everything from the...
County considers premiums, other business
Wahkiakum County commissioners handled varied business when they met Tuesday, with issues ranging from fair premiums to ferry channel shoaling. County fair officials have delayed mailing premium checks for the board of commissioners to discuss...
Country Days celebrates the best of the region
The Columbia River Country Days celebration gets underway on October 5 and 6. The beginning event on Friday is a Slow Moving Parade leaving the Elochoman Slough Marina at 2:30 p.m. and winding down Main Street in Cathlamet, across the bridge to the...
Commissioners, land trust OK work
Wahkiakum County Commissioners and the Columbia Land Trust agreed on terms Tuesday for current and future projects. Commissioners approved a resolution closing Kandoll Road this week for paving and armoring of the road's shoulders. Grays River...
Clatsop jail escapee may be in Westend
Clatsop County Sheriff's Office has reported that an inmate escapee from their custody two weeks ago and is potentially hiding in Wahkiakum county. The suspect is Ron Legler, a 39 year old white male with brown hair and blue eyes, standing 6 feet, 3...
Appelo Archives to screen Finnish film
“In the beginning there were the swamp, the hoe--and Jussi.” Thus begins a fictional historical trilogy, written in Finnish 1959-1962 and translated into English by Richard Impola in 2001. Part one covers the years 1884-1907. “To understand Finla...
Removing crosswalk smacks of arrogance
To The Eagle: The Washington State Department of Transportation wants to remove the only well used crosswalk in the town of Cathlamet on Main Street. This seems to be a case of bureaucrat incompetence or arrogance! P.J. Fleury Cat...
Dredging disturbing Columbia wildlife
To The Eagle: On September 14, I took a boat out to Miller Sands, across the channel from Altoona. This was the site of the only White Pelican nesting colony west of the Cascade range. When I arrived the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were working at...
Candidates omitted from meet and greet
To The Eagle: Dear 795-3333, I wish you would have invited all the candidates to your meet and greet or made it clear that you didn't. Some of us have worked hard to meet the people and get our platform out. Mike Backman Cathlamet...
NO. 12-128
RESOLUTION NO. 126-12 A RESOLUTION CLOSING KANDOLL ROAD FROM MILEPOST 0.5 TO MILEPOST 1.3 WHEREAS, based upon the report and recommendation of the County Engineer, it appears to the Board of County Commissioners that work proposed by Columbia...
No. 12-127
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR UPDATE OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF PORT DISTRICT NO. TWO OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY Port District No. 2 of Wahkiakum County is inviting proposals from qualified firms interested in providing professional services for the update...
No. 12-126
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF MEETING DATE, NOTICE OF HEARING ON THE 2013 BUDGET AND NOTICE OF HEARING ON RATE CHANGES OF PORT DISTRICT NO. ONE OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY Notice is hereby given that due to scheduling conflicts, the scheduled meeting of Thursday,...
No. 12-124
NOTICE OF VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINES FOR 2012 GENERAL ELECTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to RCW 29A.08.140, that the voters' registration files for all precincts within the boundaries of Wahkiakum County, Washington in which the election her...
No. 12-123
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON 2013 BUDGETS OF PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1 OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY, WASHINGTON Notice is hereby given that the preliminary budgets of Public Utility District No. One of Wahkiakum County, Washington, for the Electric...
Community News - September 27, 2012
Blessing of the Animals this Sunday St. James Episcopal Church will hold a Blessing of the Animals service on Sunday at 10 a.m. in the church garden at 1134 Columbia St. to honor the life of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the...
No. 12-117
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF WAHKIAKUM Estate of: No. 12-4-00014-6 MARION T. CARVER, PROBATE NOTICE Deceased. TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030) The Executor named below has been appointed as Exetor of this...
