Wahkiakum High School senior Keisha Harris, freshman Paris Cothren and sophomore Brittaney Martin told the Cathlamet Blanche Bradley Public Library Board of Trustees that they liked having a teen library separated from the children’s and adult a...

Superintendent Bob Garrett has issued reduction in force (RIF) notices to four teachers and has also notified teachers that he may not be able to offer the same contract terms in the coming school year. The RIF notices result in a decrease of 1.58 pe...

Wahkiakum Public Utility District board of commissioners held its first evening workshop for long range planning, continued from its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday morning. Topics of concern included personnel evaluations for both non-union...

Wahkiakum PUD commissioners voted to accept the residential exchange agreement with Bonneville Power Administration at their regular meeting Tuesday, for the second time. On April 7, the commissioners voted to approve the agreement which changes the...

At its regular meeting Thursday, Port District No. 1 commissioners Larry Bonds and Brett Deaton voted to borrow $275,000 from Wahkiakum County to replace the remaining portion of "F" Dock and rebuild "E" Dock. The port will pay .68 percent interest...

Mary Vik has retired after working for Wahkiakum County residents off and on since the early 1990s. She’s worked fulltime as information and referral coordinator at Wahkiakum County Health and Human Services since 2000, connecting people with f...

Patrick Carrico starts his day writing, then works as a para-educator in special education classes in Cathlamet. He leads students in art and writing projects, completing the assignments himself, which he said, “give the children an example of w...

Wahkiakum Public Utility District board of commissioners voted Tuesday to fund a comprehensive plan for the Western Wahkiakum Water System as required by the state Department of Health. The board planned to meet in its first workshop session, to be c...

Twenty-five job-seekers were waiting for Worksource staff when they came to Cathlamet last Wednesday to host a job fair. Six staff from Worksource in Kelso, part of the state’s Employment Security Department (ESD), brought lists of available jobs, r...

Four Wahkiakum High students, with strong math and science skills learned about prospective employers in a program sponsored by Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council. The three-day program began in March, was interrupted by snow, and...

Many people don’t know there are homeless in Wahkiakum County, Mental Health Director Chris Holmes said. But in the year beginning in July 2009, Wahkiakum Health and Human Services sheltered 13 households, or 15 individuals--including two c...

Dale and Sylvia Costich went to the Wahkiakum County Commissioners on March 22, two weeks after a tsunami steaming toward the West Coast gave some Puget Islanders a sleepless night. The Costiches asked questions about the Sheriff’s ability to o...

The last time Puget Island was evacuated in May, 1986, Gene Strong was sheriff, and the tidal wave warning system was new. Puget Island fire trucks drove around the Island with loudspeakers to alert residents. Eagle archives indicate that state...

Two more applicants appeared at Wahkiakum Public Utility District’s board meeting Tuesday. Former Cathlamet Mayor Richard Swart and Mike Lewis attended along with applicants Loren Jennings, Lee Tischer and Gene Healy. The board hopes to conduct i...

Wahkiakum High School students learned about the dangers of playing a choking game they call “tap out” last Wednesday, in an assembly prompted when a student playing the game was injured the previous week. High School Principal Dan Casler and Sup...

The Columbia River Compact agencies of Oregon and Washington on Monday set a four-hour opening later that day for commercial non-Indian fishing. Local commercial fishermen Kent Martin, Brian Stanley, Martin Kuller, Jon McKinley, Terry Ostling and...

The Wahkiakum School Board met last Wednesday and reviewed the latest version of a Drug Testing Policy, which allows testing of students suspected of being under the influence of alcohol or drugs at school. Superintendent Bob Garrett prepared a new...

Ken Morrison is going to be 100 soon, but he’s not one to make a fuss about it. “It’s kind of strange,” he said. It’s not something he’s spent a lot of time thinking about and his family isn’t particularly long-lived. Morrison said, “One day is p...

After several weeks of raising funds for Doernbecher’s Children Hospital in Portland, Wahkiakum High School Key Club President Ashley Silva said she’s excited that Wahkiakum students and community raised $3569.81, almost double last year’s total...

At its meeting Tuesday, the Wahkiakum Public Utility District board of commissioners reviewed Residential Exchange Settlement details from Bonneville Power Administration and entertained questions about its emergency plan from potential candidates...

In a quick meeting Thursday night, commissioners for Port District No. 1 signed vouchers and heard about two projects in the works that could piggy-back upon Town of Cathlamet grants. Commissioner Brett Deaton was not present. Port Manager Jackie...

Sassy Chocolates had a vision for Cathlamet’s Main Street, and when Sinful Sweets heard about it, they wanted in too. The two businesses, each run by couples with school age children, decided to share space at 90 Main Street, when it became available...

Wahkiakum School District Board briefly reviewed the nuts and bolts of a proposed Drug Testing Policy at its regular meeting February 22. The policy directs Superintendent Bob Garrett to enact a drug testing program, with the goal that students...

Students from the Wahkiakum Community Network (WCN) asked individual school board members to sign a pledge to “draw the line between youth and alcohol” at the Wahkiakum School District’s board meeting February 22. Students Abby Buenagel and Kaish...

In a busy session February 22, the Wahkiakum School District Board of Directors continued to develop its drug testing program, voted to log four acres of the school forest, supported an improvement to telecommunications equipment to be funded by Home...