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

Twenty-five years ago, Al Dunlop started drawing the plans for the steam sternwheeler, Cheng-tze. Stephen Morrison fell in love with steam engines in the north of England almost 40 years ago and bought the Linda J in 2002. Both members of the NW...

Got Steam? The Northwest Steam Society bumper sticker says it all. The group--home to a steam donkey, a calliope, remote controlled model steam boats, and vessels of all configurations--held its annual meet at the Elochoman Marina last weekend. The...

Cathlamet Mayor George Wehrfritz gave his predecessor, Mayor Dick Swart, credit for success in funding a new wastewater treatment plant for Cathlamet during a celebration Tuesday marking receipt of a $7,483,000 check, representing an approximately...

Melissa Wong will soon be leaving the community garden in Cathlamet’s Erickson Park to study Culinary Arts in Portland, but the work she’s begun to engage children should continue to bear fruit. Wong, who is 23, attended the University of Cal...

The Wahkiakum Public Utility District board of commissioners met briefly Tuesday for updates on Bonneville Power Administration wholesale power rates and current projects before they held an executive session to discuss litigation. The board authoriz...

The Wahkiakum Chinook wedge that a Portland couple found in 2008 is a welcome addition to the Friends of Skamokawa’s collection, said FOS archivist Keith Hoofnagle. The seven-inch long wedge shows the chipping that formed it. Native tribes made w...

The Wahkiakum Public Utility District board of commissioners adopted a code of conduct for board members at its meeting July 19. While the resolution does not contain penalties, board members are required to conduct themselves ethically and...

The Wahkiakum County Board of Equalization this week is presenting a plan for handling property assessments from Puget Island. Board Chair Nick Nikkala, Deep River, and Clerk Colleen Haley, Grays River, reviewed progress on Puget Island appeals at...

Wahkiakum County Commissioners Dan Cothren, Blair Brady and Lisa Marsyla, who participated by phone from her vacation in California, discussed Indian Jack Slough habitat restoration, a deteriorating culvert on the Elochoman River, and handled other...

Skamokawa Vista Park, one of Wahkiakum County’s treasures, is the result of three local Grangers’ efforts to cash in on federal government development funds. Years after Wahkiakum Port District 2 was formed, the port bought the site that would bec...

The heart of the Appelo Archive Center in Naselle is hundreds of feet of video tape recording the lives of people in western Wahkiakum County and eastern Pacific County, but the Center is multi-faceted and still growing. On the first floor, the...

Bob Jungers is proud of Elochoman Millwork, a Cathlamet company whose primary market is the highest of high end homes in Hawaii. The business produces doors and does custom millwork for residential and commercial facilities like hotels, condominiums...

In a short meeting on Wednesday, the Wahkiakum school board approved the state legislature’s 1.9 percent cut to teacher salaries, even though they may find a way to reimburse staff for their losses. Directors Tony Boyce, Michelle Budd and Lee T...

Hoping to piggy back on teaching methods that keep Singapore’s students ranked high in math proficiency, the Wahkiakum School District’s board followed elementary school teachers’ recommendations to adopt Math in Focus, a new curriculum for $27,000 a...

A Wahkiakum Community Network grant of $1500 has prompted an infusion of youthful energy into the Blanche Bradley Public Library. Under the grant, Keisha Harris, a recent Wahkiakum High School graduate, sophomore Paris Cothren and junior Brittaney Ma...

When Toni Robinson, local a real estate broker, saw the butcher block table sitting in the basement of John Ackerman’s farm, she knew she wanted it. “Butcher block is something I’ve always been attracted to,” she said, in her Puget Island kitchen...

JoAnn Prestegard is putting away her hair cutting scissors after 50 years as a hair stylist. “First we were beauticians, then we were hair stylists or cosmetologists; the words change,” but Prestegard said she’s always loved her customers. A month...

The three artists exhibiting at Redmen Hall are at varied points in their careers and use different mediums. Exhibit curator Jill Hatier said she was struck by the ways the artists are interpreting the world and called the exhibit Explorations....

High water in the Columbia River kept the Columbia River Yacht Club home on Memorial Day, costing the Elochoman Slough Marina anticipated revenue, port manager Jackie Lea told Port District No. 1 commissioners at the regular meeting Thursday. The...

The local impacts of the 2011-2013 biennial budget cuts to the State Department of Health aren’t clear yet, Health and Human Services Director Judy Bright said. Information released by the Washington Department of Health describes cuts to p...

Over the past three years, Rose Rendler has been a one-woman bookmobile to residents at Cathlamet’s Columbia View Care Center. Rendler greets residents and gets an update on health concerns. She knows who’s still able to read and who prefers Dan...

PUD commissioners Bob Jungers, Dennis Reid and Gene Healy learned Tuesday that they must soon make funding decisions for the new substation on Jacobsen Road. The district has about $2 million in reserve, General Manager Tramblie said, and the board...

Although Sarah Phillips, Wahkiakum High School valedictorian, and salutatorian Brandon Fudge share a deep affection for their classmates, their history with the school is different. Phillips came to Cathlamet and entered the school district as a...

Naselle High School valedictorian Taylor Wasmundt and salutatorian Haleigh See are passionate about their prospective careers in health care, their love of sports-- volleyball, basketball, track and softball--and the 22 people in their graduating...

The results of the Healthy Youth Survey administered to Wahkiakum School District students in October of 2010, reflect both strengths and concerns for local students. The results, released in March and reviewed at the Wahkiakum school board meeting...