Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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General Manager Dan Kay addressed substation security issues at the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday. “We are taking it seriously,” he said. “Wahkiakum PUD is aware of substation vandalism events that have occurred recently in the Pacific Northwest and around our country. We have and are coordinating with our law enforcement agencies to communicate and increase the security at our substations. As part of this we cannot discuss specific details of our mitigation meas...
According to the county website, the mission of Wahkiakum Heath and Human Services is to “enhance the health and well-being of Wahkiakum County by providing effective health and human services and by fostering and implementing sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.” One of the ways they seek to enhance the health and well-being of the community is through their mental health department. Duncan Cruickshank, who is in charge of the dep...
A Tumwater woman was hospitalized after the vehicle she was driving collided with a log truck last Friday afternoon near Nassa Point. Nancy Knofler, 66, was headed westbound on SR 4 in a Subaru Outback on Friday around noon when her vehicle crossed the center line near milepost 39 and collided head on with an eastbound log truck driven by Fabian Hohn, 38, of South Bend. Hohn, who was wearing a seatbelt, was uninjured, according to a report from the Washington State Patrol. Emergency responders...
Sixty was the magic number for the Mule boys basketball team last week, when they won three games with that score and were named champions of a Christmas tournament at Mount Vernon Christian School. Lummi Nation went into high gear in the final minutes on the Mules first night of competition, scoring 31 points in the fourth quarter, but it wasn't enough. The Mules managed to hold on for a 60-58 win. Zakk Carlson scored 26 points and pulled down eight boards against Lummi Nation. Brodie Avalon...
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team participated in a girls' tournament at Mount Vernon Christian School during the last week of December. The Lady Mules lost their first and second games, 32-19 to Orcas Island and 47-37 to Moses Lake Christian Academy/Covenant Christian School respectively, but finished the trip on a high note with a 56-42 win against Crosspoint Academy. They returned to regular season play on Wednesday at home against Toutle Lake, but the score was not available by...
The number of reported covid-19 cases rose by two this week according to the Washington Department of Health, for a cumulative total of 632 in Wahkiakum County. The number of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to the virus remained unchanged, at 48 and 10 respectively. Disclaimer: With the easy accessibility of at home tests, the actual number of active covid-19 cases and actual cumulative numbers in the county are hard to know. According to the Washington Department of Health, 70.3 percent...
According to Sheriff Mark Howie, when the arctic blast gave us freezing rain on December 23, it stranded one deputy at home, and a trooper at the Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office. Thankfully, according to the sheriff's report, it was a pretty quiet night in Wahkiakum County. Sergeant Brad Moon of the Washington State Patrol, who started his shift that morning around 11:30 a.m., was not so lucky. He was handling one thing up north before the storm came in, while another trooper headed to SR 105...
The date has been set. The Washington Supreme Court will hear Wahkiakum School District’s case against the State of Washington on March 14, 2023. The lawsuit, initially filed by the district a year ago in Wahkiakum Superior Court, argues that the state should be responsible for funding equitable and safe facilities for schools according to the state’s own constitution. The court date is good news for the district, though Superintendent Brent Freeman admits there will likely be lost sleep bet...
By Diana Zimmerman The number of cases of covid-19 reported in Wahkiakum County rose by three in the last week, bringing the cumulative number to 630. The number of hospitalizations and deaths attributed to the virus stand at 48 and 10, respectively. Disclaimer: With the easy accessibility of at home tests, the actual number of active covid-19 cases and actual cumulative numbers in the county are hard to know. While 70.3 percent of the population in the state of Washington has received the...
Though winter is officially with us, activity at the coming Puget Island Gardens is anything but dormant. Gene and Dawn O'Neil, along with their assistant Natalie Fink, are busy dreaming, planning, and otherwise preparing for the opening of a garden center this spring. Gene O'Neil grew up gardening, and has had a long career in sales in the garden business. Dawn's career focus was on hospitality and food, with a specialty in pastry, and she has worked at the Four Season Hotel in Seattle, and...
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team followed two wins with a loss this week. Last Wednesday, the Lady Mules traveled to Kalama and beat the Chinooks 57-46. "The Kalama game was a lot of fun," Coach Rob Garrett said. "Reigha [Niemeyer] was unconscious, shooting 7-11 from three point range, and leading the way with 31 points. I thought everyone did a good job in the game, working at their role to complete a team effort. Our defense looked solid most of the time, and we came out with a good...
A recount requested by Joe Kent, who lost the race for U.S. Representative for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, did not change the outcome of the election. Instead, the undertaking, which cost Kent more than $48,500, only succeeded in extending Perez’s lead a little more. Wahkiakum’s recount was conducted last Thursday morning by Wahkiakum County Auditor Nicci Bergseng, Wahkiakum County Commissioner Gene Strong, Wahkiakum Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Shannon Edd...
Dennis Reid swore the oath of office after reelection to his position as a member of the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, and General Manager Dan Kay and Auditor Erin Wilson gave a presentation on the state of utility. It was a time of coming out of covid-19 and what is going to be the new normal, Kay said, from whether to have meetings in person or hybrid, or how to address challenges like inflation and supply chain issues. According to the presentation, the mission of th...
The Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team won two more games this week and found themselves rated the number 10 team among 2B schools in the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Rating Percentage Index (RPI), which uses a formula of the winning percentages of teams, their opponents, and their opponents’ opponents, to rank teams in the state. On Wednesday, the Mules traveled to Kalama and beat the Chinooks 68-35. “Offense was created by our defense,” Coach Todd Souvenir said. “We g...
Nearly two weeks ago, Gloria Johnson of Cathlamet called The Eagle because she was waking up most mornings to find the sod recently placed in her back yard flipped over in multiple places, hindering it’s growth. It must be raccoons, she thought. They’d been seen in the neighborhood, on a fence, in a nearby tree. She did everything her friends suggested, applying Irish Spring soap, deer deterrent, and a $200 chemical that would kill grubs and not harm any cats. She bought motion sensor lig...
During public comment at the Wahkiakum County Port 1 Board of Commissioners meeting last Thursday, Javier Sanchez, one of the owners of River Mile 38 Brewery, expressed a concern about sewer and electrical lines to the new taproom at the waterfront, which had been placed in the same trench. “[General Manager] Dan Kay with the PUD is not a big fan of the sewer running within those lines, in case there is any access needed underneath,” he said. “It has now become a problem for us.” Port 1 counsel...
It's been a frustrating few days for Gloria Johnson in Cathlamet. Several mornings in a row now, she's discovered that something is turning over the newly laid sod in her back yard. It hasn't had a chance to take root, and may not if these high jinks continue. She's come to the conclusion that it's raccoons, trying to get an early breakfast of grubs. Raccoons have been seen in the neighborhood, Johnson said, walking on a nearby fence or living in a tree across the street before it was cut down....
Wahkiakum County Port 2 recently opened the doors to their new offices in the former Skamokawa United Methodist Church, now renamed the Carlton Appelo Center at Skamokawa Vista Park. "I wanted to put life back into the building for the community," Port 2 Assistant Manager Terina Davis said. "There are still a lot of unknowns about the main hall. It may be used as a place for the community to gather, with couches and TVs or technology centers. Something to benefit not just Vista Park and the...
There were two more cases of covid-19 reported this week by the Washington Department of Health, bringing the cumulative total to 627 in Wahkiakum County. The number of reported hospitalizations rose by one this week to 48, while the number of deaths attributed to the virus stands at nine. Disclaimer: With the easy accessibility of at home tests, the actual number of active covid-19 cases and actual cumulative numbers in the county, are hard to know. The percentage of people receiving the primar...
The Wahkiakum Mules boys basketball team split games this week. On Thursday, the team beat Toutle Lake at home 72-57. Zakk Carlson led scoring with 18 points. Dominic Curl and Brodie Avalon added 15 points apiece, Kyler Sause had 11 points. Titan Niemela had six, Jacob Johnson added five, and Tanner Collupy finished with two. Toutle Lake 16 15 16 10 --57 Mules 27 19 12 14 --72 On Friday, the Mules picked up their first loss of the season in Castle Rock, 66-57. Carlson led scoring again with 17...
The Wahkiakum Mules wrestling team has a new head coach, Ross Lofstrom. Lofstrom, who graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 2008, never wrestled for the Mules. Instead, he played for the basketball team. These days he knows that if wrestling and basketball had different seasons, he would have gladly participated in both. After graduating, Lofstrom headed to Central Washington University, where he studied philosophy and earned a bachelor's degree. With an itch to travel, he headed to Thailand,...
The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team forfeited their game with Napavine last Wednesday, because of injuries and illness, but came back on Friday with a win on the road against Onalaska, 42-30. There were no statistics available for the game, but Coach Rob Garrett reported that Reigha Niemeyer scored 17 points. The Lady Mules traveled to Kalama on Wednesday. The score was not available at press time. They host Winlock on Friday and Mossyrock on Tuesday before taking some time off for the...
On Nov. 3, the Washington State Supreme Court decided it would hear Wahkiakum School District’s case against the State of Washington. Wahkiakum has been dealing with aging facilities for some time: an outdated electrical system, a leaky roof, no sprinkler system in the event of a fire, and HVAC issues for a start, and when the community voted against a 22 year $28.75 million bond in 2020 for renovations, Superintendent Brent Freeman and the board of directors decided to try something else. T...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners listened to reports and reorganized for the next year at their meeting on Tuesday. General Manager Dan Kay reported on a message from the Public Power Council: moving forward, utilities throughout the state are acting as one public power with the same contract with Bonneville Power Administration. “PPC is doing a good job of bringing us together,” he said. “There is a real strong push to make sure no utility is left behind.” He added that the Wah...
By Diana Zimmerman The Wahkiakum Mules girls basketball team is back to their old tricks with two wins after a season starting loss to Ilwaco. Despite the 49-46 loss to Ilwaco Nov. 30, it was a good game, according to Coach Rob Garrett, marred by an "ice cold" third quarter, when the team only scored one point. "We gave up too many second chance opportunities to Ilwaco in the long run," Garrett said. "I was really proud of the girls for battling back. We made a lot of good decisions down the...
