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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the coming week for the Naselle Comet teams: Thursday, home baseball and fastpitch against Ocosta at 4 p.m. and a home track meet at 4 p.m.; Friday, home baseball and fastpitch against Ilwaco at 4 p.m.; Monday, baseball at NW Christian at 4 p.m.; Tuesday, fastpitch at Warrenton at 4 p.m.; Wednesday, home baseball and fastpitch against Wahkiakum at 4 p.m. and middle school track meet at home at 4 p.m. Go Comets! The Naselle-Grays River Valley School Board will meet on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. These meetings...
A group of Washington based gillnetters has sued the state Fish and Wildlife Commission to overturn regulations that would move gillnetters off the main stem of the Columbia River and sway salmon allocations further in favor of recreation anglers. The suit, filed Monday in Wahkiakum County Superior Court, asks the court to declare the regulation entitled "Columbia River Basin Salmon Management Policy Decision" invalid. The suit is similar to one filed last month in Oregon against the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission, which had adopted the...
Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday approved one of two claims for damages caused by county employees. Commissioners Blair Brady and Mike Backman--Dan Cothren was out of town at another meeting--approved a $230.99 damage claim from Leon Grooff of Bellevue for damage his travel trailer sustained while boarding the ferry Wahkiakum last July. The steepness of the ramp caused the trailer to drag, he said, and that destroyed his stabilizing jacks. Brady and Backman agreed the claim was valid and should be paid. However, they rejected a...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams this week includes: March 12, baseball and fastpitch at Montesano at 4 p.m.; March 13, baseball and fastpitch at Cathlamet at 3:30 p.m. Go Comets! The Comet Booster Club will meet on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. ESA Alpha Theta annual Senior Citizen Dinner will be March 17 at 12:30 p.m. in the social room at the Naselle Assembly of God Church located at 278 Knappton Road. The free dinner is open to all Naselle/Grays River Valley senior citizens 60 years and older. For more information,...
I picked my first bouquet of daffodils yesterday afternoon, so that must be a good sign of things to come, right? I see lots of baby sheep and calves being nurtured by their mothers in the fields along the highway and county roads. Spring must be almost here, new beginnings, new life and hopefully good things ahead for all of us. News from Naselle: Naselle-Grays River Valley School kids are on Winter Break and will return to classes on Monday. I understand that the new coffee shop at the Appelo Archives center is now open and serving up...
Port District 2 will soon have a new office at Skamokawa Vista Park. A contractor delivered a park model cabin on Tuesday. Once the building is set up, port staff will use it for an office. Port commissioners hope to construct a stick built building in the future for a permanent office; this would free the park model to be a rental for campers. The port plans to hire contractors to upgrade electrical wiring in that part of the park. They said they'd try to upgrade wiring in other parts of the park next year, if they can budget the money....
Diking District 4 Commissioner Maurice Mooers and two federal agencies remain as far apart as ever in agreeing on a plan to replace the Steamboat Slough Dike. The Columbia River is eroding the dike, and geotechnical engineers say a breach is possible at any time. That would flood the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge. No one has funds to repair the eroding dike. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, which owns the refuge, and the US Army Corps of Engineers have proposed building a new dike set back from the shoreline, and then breaching...
The Cathlamet Town Council on Tuesday voted to offer the Helping Hand Food Bank a site in Erickson Park to locate a new building for the food bank. Helping Hand administrators had requested the town lease a lot at the corner of 2nd and Beal streets, near the Elochoman Slough Marina, so they could site a new building. They had made a similar request last spring, and after town sponsored community meetings, a proposal went to the council to site the new food bank in Erickson Park near the tennis courts. There was public opposition to the...
News from Naselle: Naselle students will have Winter Break beginning next Wednesday. They will return to classes on March 4. Other news from the Westend: The Grays River United Methodist Church’s Friendship Circle will be serving their Stew Lunch & Bazaar this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy this delicious beef stew, cheese bread, beverage and dessert prepared and served by the members of the Friendship Circle. You are welcome to leave a free-will donation for the meal. Take-out orders are also a...
Wahkiakum Mule wrestlers Alex Johnson and Mason Mackey claimed fourth place medals at the state Mat Classic today (Saturday) in Tacoma. Both had gone 1-1 in opening rounds on Friday. On Saturday, Johnson, 126 lbs., won his third match of the tournament by a 7-3 score. That put him in the medal match for third and fourth place. He lost by fall to Winlock's Tony Raupp. Johnson is a sophomore; Raupp is a junior. Mackey, 138 lbs., opened the day with a win by pin in his third match of the tournament. In the finals, wrestling for third and fourth,...
Wahkiakum Mule wrestlers Alex Johnson and Mason Mackey each won a match Friday to continue competition at the State Mat Classic, while three teammates were eliminated. Here's the report from Day 1: 126 lbs.--Johnson lost his first match 1-0 in overtime and won his second 6-0. He wrestles Saturday morning at 11:54 a.m. 132 lbs.--Luke Stacey was eliminated after losing his first match 11-4 and his second 13-4. 138 lbs.--Mackey lost his first match 12-2 and pinned his opponent in the second match to advance. He wrestles Saturday at 12:10 p.m. 152...
The Oregon Court of Appeals on Monday issued an order granting a stay pending judicial review of new rules for gillnetters on the Columbia River. In December, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife adopted a plan suggested by Oregon Governor Kitzhaber that made sweeping changes in management of salmon allocations on the Columbia River. Among the many provisions, the plan shifted commercial gillnetters from the mainstem to select area side channels; the plan encouraged adoption of other commercial fishing methods such as seining on the...
Wahkiakum County Sheriff Mark Howie has honored two deputies for two recent life saving performances. The officers are Detective Mike Balch and Deputy Sheriff Paul Carlson. "These guys don’t get recognized very often and don’t expect to, but I think it’s important for our community to know some of the things they do when they impact lives in such a positive way," Howie said. In the afternoon of November 24, 2012, Carlson responded to a report of heavy smoke billowing out of a multi-family complex in Cathlamet, the commendation award says....
Voters in the Naselle/Grays River Valley School District supported an $8.1 million building bond issue in Tuesday voting, but the vote tally wasn't high enough to pass the measure. The bond issue needed 60 percent approval to pass; it received 55 percent approval. The vote in Wahkiakum precincts was 137 in favor, 174 opposed. The vote in Pacific precincts was 304 in favor, 180 opposed. Auditors in the two counties will tally late arriving votes later this week. Wahkiakum County Auditor Diane Tischer said she would count late arriving votes at...
Happy Valentine’s Day to all the Eagle readers and staff. I feel very blessed this day for the love of family and friends. These past few months have not been the most wonderful of my life but things are certainly looking up. Thank you, everyone, for all your good thoughts, deeds, prayers and encouragement after my husband’s stroke. He is making wonderful progress in his recovery, but we still have a long road ahead. Today, I wish everyone much love and happiness in return for all that you have given us. News from Naselle: There will be no sch...
The ferry Wahkiakum will head to an Astoria shipyard later this month for inspection and some repairs. County Public Works Director Pete Ringen said the ferry is tentatively scheduled to go out of service February 25 and be in the yard about a week. Federal regulations require a drydock inspection for freshwater ferries once every five years, and the inspection is due by March 6, 2013, Ringen said. He added that because the ferry is due to be replaced with a new vessel next year, he had requested a waiver of the requirement; however, US Coast...
Agreement to construct a new dike at the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge is apparently still in the wind. The US Army Corps of Engineers and US Fish and Wildlife Service, which owns the refuge, have proposed building a new dike set back from the Columbia River shoreline where the current is eroding an existing dike. Salmon habitat enhancement funds would finance the project, and the existing dike would be breached in one or two places to create a wetland habitat conducive to rearing juvenile salmon. However, the federal agencies...
Wahkiakum County commissioners had a light agenda but still found plenty to do at their meeting Tuesday. The board told members of the exeuctive board of the Cowlitz/Wahkiakum Drug Taskforce they would continue searching for funds for a contribution to the taskforce budget. Wahkiakum hasn't contributed for several years because of tight revenues. Wahkiakum Sheriff Mark Howie praised the work of the taskforce, which is set up to target mid- and upper level drug dealers. "The work that the taskforce does eliminates drugs that would be in our coun...
Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Distict 3, and constituents discussed issues in a public gathering last Wednesday in Cathlamet. Herrera-Beutler had come from Naselle, where she had participated in a ceremony to honor Korean War veteran William Wuorinen and present him with a Silver Star medal. Here are some of the topics discussed last week: Money supply Puget Island resident Gilbert Vik offered to work with Herrera-Beutler to distribute a book he had written on money supply, Congress, Banks and the IRS. "It's worth $16 trillion, if and...
Commissioners from Wahkiakum County and Diking District 4 on Tuesday gave conditioned approval to the US Army Corps of Engineers proposal to build a setback dike on the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge. The Columbia River is eroding the existing dike, and no agency has money to halt the erosion. The Corps has proposed using federal salmon habitat enhancement funds to build a new dike set back from the shoreline to create wetland habitat and, if the dike breaches, protect the refuge and inland area from flooding. Maurice Mooers,...
Cowlitz County business owner Paul Gragg and his wife, Jalna, are in negotiations to purchase the Columbia View Care Center facility in Cathlamet. The nursing home closed last year, and the owner of the facility, Aviv REIT Inc., put it up for auction in January. Gragg surfaced as the leading bidder. The purchase still isn't complete, he said Tuesday. "We're still in negotiations," he said. "There are a lot of formalities." Gragg and his wife, who also own PJ's Restaurant in Cathlamet, plan to re-open the facility for nursing home and assisted...
News from Naselle: This week’s sports calendar for the Naselle teams: Thursday- varsity boys basketball at Montesano (first round of the District Tournament) at 8 p.m.; Monday, middle school boys basketball at South Bend at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! On Thursday, the Naselle Drama Club will present a Shakespeare performance at 7 p.m. in the Naselle Commons. The Comet Booster Club will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Students are on an early release schedule for February 13. The American Legion Auxiliary, Deep River Post #111 w...
News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the coming week with the Naselle Comet teams: Friday, home varsity boys basketball against Northwest Christian at 4 p.m. followed by varsity girls basketball at 5:45 p.m.; Monday, middle school boys basketball at North Beach at 5:45 p.m; Tuesday, home middle school boys basketball against Valley at 5:45 p.m. Go Comets! On February 7 the Naselle Drama Club will present a Shakespeare performance at 7 p.m. in the Naselle School Commons. Remember your favorite valentine and treat them to a...
Wahkiakum County and Diking District 4 are one step closer to approving a plan to address the possible breach of Steamboat Slough Dike. The Columbia River is eroding the dike; a breach would allow flooding of the 2,000 acres of the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge. Last Friday, officials from the county, diking district, US Army Corps of Engineers, and US Fish and Wildlife Service met to go over the plan and iron out differences. None of the parties have funding to armor the shoreline and stop the erosion. The Corps proposes using...
Local and federal agencies will meet Friday afternoon in Cathlamet in an effort to agree on a plan to address the eroding Steamboat Slough Dike. Neither the local nor the federal agencies have fuuds to address the erosion along the shoreline, a project estimated to cost over $3 million. The shoreline is threatening to slide into the river and flood the Julia Butler Hansen National Wildlife Refuge for the Columbian White-tailed Deer. The US Army Corps of Engineers has said it could use federal funds dedicated to salmon habitat restoration to...
