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The Washington State Auditor’s Office has released its 2013 audit reports for the Town of Cathlamet, and the auditors have recommended changes in oversight for certain procedures. Overall, the state auditors said "town operations complied with applicable requirements and provided adequate safeguarding of public resources. The town also complied with state laws and regulations and its own policies and procedures." "However," the report said, "we noted certain matters that we communicated to the town management in a letter dated September 17, 2...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the coming week includes: Thursday (today), volleyball at Wishkah at 5:45 p.m., middle school football with South Bend in Naselle at 6 p.m.; Saturday, football at Tahola at 1 p.m.; Monday, middle school volleyball at North Beach at 5:45 p.m.; Wednesday, middle school volleyball with Valley in Naselle at 5:45 p.m.; Thursday, middle school football at Raymond at 6 p.m. Go Comets! Westend news Oktoberfest tickets are still available for the annual Oktoberfest German dinner including sauerbraten, sweet and...
The Pe Ell/Willapa Valley Titans pounded the Wahkiakum Mules for a 41-6 Central League football game Friday in Cathlamet. The Titans wasted little time getting on the scoreboard. Jason Fluke scored on a 5-yard run at 10:41 of the first quarter and Robert Espina kicked the conversion for a 7-0 lead. The Titans then returned a Mule punt 45 yards for another touchdown and a 13-0 lead. Aidan Arrington intercepted a Gunnar Blix pass and ran it to the Mule 12-yard line, and Trevor Cook scored on a...
The Pe Ell/Willapa Valley Titans pounded the Wahkiakum Mules for a 41-6 Central League football game Friday in Cathlamet. The Titans wasted little time getting on the scoreboard. Jason Fluke scored on a 5-yard run at 10:41 of the first quarter and Robert Espina kicked the conversion for a 7-0 lead The Titans then returned a Mule punt 45 yards for a touchdown for a 13-0 lead. Aidan Arringrton intercepted a Gunnar Blix pass and ran it the Mule 12-yard line, and Trevor Cook scored on a 10-yard...
As has happened before, Wahkiakum County officials received a mix of good news and bad news Tuesday when representatives of the state Department of Natural Resources reported their projections for revenue off state managed county timber trust lands. Regional Manager Steve Ogden first reported that the county should receive $1.3 million this year, up slightly from the estimate earlier this year. However, Ogden estimated 2015 revenue at $746,000, down from $850,000 estimated earlier this year. Ogden said markets had declined, leading him to...
Before Columbia Land Trust came on the scene, life on Kandoll Road was quiet, serene and full of nature sounds for the local human inhabitants. Then, along came big money and ideas that would put fish and their habitat before people and their homes and property. In this case, Columbia Land Trust acquired lots of grant money to install two 13-foot diameter culverts under Kandoll Road which allowed flood waters from the Grays River to flow into Seal Slough. These high water events flooded neighboring properties and eroded private dikes on Seal...
The Wahkiakum Mules suited up 18 players last Friday to take on sixth ranked Adna Pirates in a Central League football game, and they gave the Pirates all they could handle in a 28-20 overtime Mule loss. The two team battled back and forth in regular time. Adna took a 14-6 lead at 2:19 of the third quarter on a safety. The Pirates had punted, and the ball rolled dead on the Mule 1-yard line. The Pirates then tackled the Mule ball carrier in the endzone for two points. The Mules tied the game...
The visiting Adna Pirates pulled out a 28-20 overtime win Friday against the Wahkiakum Mules. The Mules took a 6-0 lead early in the second quarter on a halfback pass from Zach Brown to Joey Moore. Adna tied the game and took a 12-6 lead at halftime. They added a safety for a 14-6 lead at 2:19 of the third quarter. Brandon Budd intercepted a Pirate option pitch and ran 50 yards for a touchdown to bring the Mules with two points, 14-12, at 2:42 of the fourth quarter. Budd ran the conversion to...
Two people are dead and another person is hospitalized following a collision at 9:06 a.m. Tuesday, September 23, on SR 4 near Mill Creek. As of Tuesday evening, the Washington State Patrol hadn't yet been able to notify family members of the deceased persons, and their identities haven't been announced. They were the driver and passenger of a 2000 Subaru Forester driven eastbound. According to the state patrol, their vehicle was passing another eastbound vehicle in a no passing zone at Milepost 46.7 when it collided head on with a 2005 Ford...
An end may lie ahead for the never ending story of Cathlamet's decorative street lighting project. The town council will hold a special meeting at 3 p.m. next Wednesday to discuss with its consulting engineers how to pay for the latest addition to the project's cost. Several years ago, the council began replacing old street lights with new, decorative lights as street improvement projects occurred. The new lights are seen on Broadway and 2nd streets, and new lights are scheduled for Main Street this year. However, delays and adjustments have...
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday heard the latest update in staffing at the Cowlitz Family Health Center clinic in Cathlamet and handled other business, including a discussion of the county's comprehensive plan. Health center Executive Director Dian Cooper reported that one of the clinic's two physician's assistants, Kat Harshman, has resigned and will move out of the area for another job at the end of October. The other, Val Clark, who had been working on a temporary contract, has signed a full time contract. The center has started re...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week include: Thursday, volleyball at Lake Quinault at 5:45 p.m.; Friday’s football game has been cancelled with a possibility of another game. Please call the school for more information; Saturday, the 20th-cross-country at 3 Course at 10 a.m., volleyball at North Beach at 9 a.m.; Monday, middle school volleyball at Valley at 5:45 p.m., high school volleyball at Ilwaco at 5:45 p.m.; Tuesday, high school volleyball with Oakville in Naselle at 5:45 p.m.; Wednesday, middle s...
The Napavine Tigers rolled over the Wahkiakum Mules for a 48-0 Central League football game last Friday. The Tigers, second ranked in the Associated Press poll, got things going early by pressuring Mule quarterback Gunnar Blix and returing an intercepted pass for a touchdown with less than 90 seconds gone in the game. They followed that by stripping the ball from a Mule ball carrier on the next series, setting up another short touchdown. "The floodgates came open," said Mule Coach Eric Hansen. The Tigers scored four times in the first quarter...
The visiting Adna Pirates pulled out a 28-20 overtime win Friday against the Wahkiakum Mules. The Mules took a 6-0 lead early in the second quarter on a halfback pass from Zach Brown to Joey Moore. Adna tied the game and took a 12-6 lead at halftime. They added a safety for a 14-6 lead at 2:19 of the third quarter. Brandon Budd intercepted a Pirate option pitch and ran 50 yards for a touchdown to bring the Mules with two points, 14-12, at 2:42 of the fourth quarter. Budd ran the conversion to tie the score 14-14. The fourth quarter ended with...
The Town of Cathlamet will add over $100,000 to its revenues this year with the harvest of timber. In 2013, with timber prices at high levels, the town contracted with forester Bill Olsen to harvest 93 acres in three units of town timberland on Bradley Mountain. The timber was previously harvested in the 1960s. The first 33 acre unit has been logged, but with a decline in timber prices, the town may hold off on logging the second and third units to see what the market does, town Treasurer/Clerk Tina Schubert said this week. So far, the logging...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week include: Friday, the 12th-football at Rockaway at 7 p.m.; Tuesday, the 16th-volleyball at Kelso at 5:45 p.m.; Thursday, the 18th-volleyball at Quinault at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! The Naselle-Grays River Valley School District board meeting will be held on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. A few years back, a Naselle resident, Chuck Wolfe, lost a lawsuit he had filed against WSDOT relating to the loss of property due to the SR4 Bridge over the Naselle River directing the flow of water...
The Wahkiakum Mule football team overpowered the visiting Toutle Lake Ducks to claim a 36-6 season opening Central League football game last Friday. The game opened with fireworks from both sides. The Mules received the kickoff and moved down the field, with junior quarterback Gunnar Blix connecting with several receivers on passes. Running back Brandon Budd caught one six yards out of the endzone and barreled through four Ducks to put the Mules on the scoreboard at 9:37 of the first quarter....
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday gave the Department of Health and Human Services authority to negotiate a purchase of land for a housing development and a possible new Health Department campus. The 6-acre parcel is on the north side of SR 4 near the Main Street intersection and adjacent to the new Town of Cathlamet Wastewater Treatment Plant. Last year, Health and Human Services considered buying land on the east side of Cathlamet but backed away when a consultant reported the land had drainage problems. The new site is owned by the...
News from Naselle: Welcome back students and faculty, to the new school year. Here’s to another great year. Sports calendar for the coming week includes: Friday, the 5th-football at Tacoma at 7 p.m., Tuesday, the 9th-volleyball with Ilwaco in Naselle at 5:45 p.m., Wednesday, the 10th-volleyball with Knappa in Naselle at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! Westend news: The Free Friday Night movie this week is a rated PG movie that we had scheduled previously and were unable to get the disc. So this week we will have our own copy and after showing the film, i...
The Wahkiakum Mule football team opened the 2014 season with a 36-6 win over the visiting Toutle Lake Ducks on Sept. 5. Quarterback Gunnar Blix and running back Brandon Budd spearheaded the Mules. Blix passed for three touchdowns and ran another, and Budd scored three times, including a 20-yard return of a Toutle Lake Pass. Budd also opened the second half by ripping the ball out of the hands of a Duck running back and setting up a Mule touchdown. The Ducks got on the scoreboard early in the...
Wahkiakum County commissioners have some advice for department heads as they start developing their 2015 budget requests: Don't get your hopes up. Commissioners met Tuesday with Auditor Diane Tischer and Treasurer Tammy Peterson to go over the county's financial status and review revenue predictions for 2015. The predictions aren't good, Peterson said. For instance, the most recent projection of revenue from state-managed county trust timberland is $855,000 for 2015. This year, Peterson said, the county should receive $1 million in trust...
Wahkiakum County commissioners approved a pay increase for employees, discussed the trend of hunters paying for access to private timberlands and acted on other business when they met Tuesday. The board formally approved a 2 percent pay increase for most county employees. The raise is retroactive to January 1 of this year. Commissioner Blair Brady, the board's negotiator, said he doubted there would be a raise next year because of a decline in revenue (see related story in this issue). In other business: Rosburg resident Poul Toftemark urged...
The Wahkiakum High School football stadium grandstands may not be open to the public this year, district Superintendent Bob Garrett announced Tuesday. School staff have discovered dry rot in the structure, and the grandstand will be closed until repairs are made, Garrett said. District Maintenance Supervisor Mike Wright discovered the dry rot when he started to repair some fascia boards, Garrett said. Wright investigated and found extensive dry rot. He asked a local contractor to have a look, and after the contractor had checked the structure,...
Here comes another year of school days, and the end of what has been a really nice summer, though a little warm for my taste. With a long Labor Day weekend ahead for everyone, here's to a safe and fun holiday. News from Naselle: Students will return to classes on Tuesday at 8 a.m. Here's to another successful and fun school year. Sports calendar for the coming week includes: Saturday, the 30th-football at Ilwaco at 1 p.m. Go Comets! Westend news The Free Friday Night movie this week is a kid...
A failing culvert has led Wahkiakum County officials to implement an emergency closure of one lane of Elochoman Valley Road. The single lane closure went into effect yesterday (Wednesday). The culvert carries Clear Creek under the road at approximately Milepost 6.53. Public Works Director Pete Ringen reported this week that the galvanized steel pipe is starting to buckle under the northbound lane. "I'm deeply concerned," Ringen told the board of county commissioners Tuesday. "It is heavily corroded and has buckled. It could collapse. It's...
