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Congressional candidates state their cases
The run for the 3rd Congressional seat got attention last Thursday when candidates gathered at the Lower Columbia College’s Wollenberg Auditorium for a “Meet the Candidates” forum. The open discussion drew over 150 visitors. The candi...
Bonds sell business started in 1981
The owners of Larry’s Auto and Marine will retire Friday. Penny and Larry Bonds have spent the last few days on the job helping the store’s new owner Joel Moore with details of the hand-over. Pen...
Washington, Oregon traffic laws differ
Wahkiakum drivers need to be aware of the new driving laws that took effect in Oregon January 1. Some of the new laws are quite strict. One law in particular has changed and is yet to be referenced in the Oregon Driver Manual and has to be broken...
Complexities of timber markets sway recovery
The Washington Department of Natural Resources says the worst may be over for beleaguered Northwest sawmills and timber companies. In a report released this past September, the DNR said Wahkiakum’s t...
State scholarship program helps with college costs
Washington State’s College Bound Scholarship program funds a variety of financial aid programs to help students and their families pay for college. The College Bound Scholarship program offers both guidance and incentive to low-income students and f...
Park recovering from storms
Skamokawa Vista Park is filled with the sounds of chainsaws after getting a needed breather from bad weather. The park’s storm damage clean up has begun. During the past couple of months the bad weath...
Legislature looking for answers
The 2010 Washington Legislature convened for an emergency 60-day session Monday with lawmakers searching for ways to fix a $2.6 billion budget deficit. Washington’s budget is fairly lean already after legislators tried to make cuts during the last s...
TV repairman one of a dying breed
If there is one thing that makes Wahkiakum County stand out - it's the people. Nowhere else would you find a television repair man willing to drive into the hills of Wahkiakum to find a little hermit...
Turkeys are not the only Christmas birds
Christmas is for the birds! That’s the annual message from the Audubon Society. Last week, volunteers from the Willapa Hills chapter of the Audubon Society braved rain, wind and snow to count a total of 115 bird species in parts of Wahkiakum, C...
Family movie night this weekend
Finally! A theater in Wahkiakum ... well, almost. The Skamokawa Grange will host its first “Family Movie Night” celebration this weekend. The featured movie is an incredibly intimate look into the...
Fish and Wildlife to continues trapping fish
In 2008, Fish and Wildlife implemented new policies and strategies for trapping salmon hatchery fish in the lower Columbia River region. Fish and Wildlife's Regional Fish Manager Pat Frazier explained it is because the old methods of rearing fish in...
Fair dealing with funding cut
The Wahkiakum County Fair still struggles to survive in a financial climate less hospitable than in years past. Late in 2009, Wahkiakum County commissioners told the fair board they hadn’t budgeted funds for the 2010 fair season. The state also h...
Clinic transition coming soon
The saga of the Wahkiakum’s Family Practice Clinic is over. The ‘i’-s have all been dotted and the ‘t’-s all crossed. As of January 4, Longview-based Family Health Center (FHC) will be the new owner/manager of the Family Practice Clinic in Cathlamet....
Stoves make the smoke
Winter fires may be cozy but pollutants in smoke can damage lungs, hurt eyes and smell up your house. When it drops into the teens outside we all like to spend time indoors with family and friends. Often that time is spent enjoying a fire in the...
USDA forces water system reorganization
Last Friday, representatives from The United States Department of Agriculture met in Cathlamet with about 20 shareholders and customers of the Skamokawa Westside Water (WW) system and informed them of the USDA intent to foreclose on the water...
Witnesses describe shooting
Authorities say a Cathlamet man ended his night shooting another man in the stomach at the Duck Inn. During his arraignment on November 23, Superior Court Judge Michael Sullivan ordered Jack Sebade, 73, to undergo a forensic mental health evaluation...
Engineer respondsto Clark's comment
November always gets Lewis and Clark historians stirred up. It’s the month when William Clark mentions in his diary that the Corps of Discovery finally saw the Pacific Ocean. It is also the culmination to a set of journals that record many of the a...
Donation to aid tall ship's upgrade
She’s sailed up and down the West Coast for 20 years. During that time, her romantic shape, tall spars and billowy square sails have attracted gawkers in ports from Alaska to Panama City, and from Hawaii to Japan. But now the “sunshine state” of Ca...
Storm pounds Wahkiakum
Powerful wind swept through Wahkiakum, knocking out power to the entire county and sending trees crashing across roads and power lines Sunday morning. The winds roared in during the early morning hours on Sunday. The National Weather Service clocked...
Programs, awareness help smokers kick the habit
“The Great American Smokeout” has success stories in Wahkiakum County. The annual smokeout challenge asked smokers to quit for 24 hours last Thursday. Smokeout organizers say that during that focused time, smokers realize they have the will pow...
Port 2 deals with cash flow
Commissioners of Port District No. 2 of Wahkiakum County were in good spirits November 17 when Chair Brian O’Connor called the meeting to order to go over port business. O’Connor asked Auditor Sharon Mast how things were. Mast had been on a fam...
Americorps volunteer hard at work
Kelly Guest is Wahkiakum County’s Americorps Volunteer. Guest runs the Physical Activity and Nutrition program for the Wahkiakum Health and Human Services Department. Guest and her seven year old daughter moved to Cathlamet last June from P...
State audit finds compliance at Wahkiakum PUD
The Washington State Auditors Office released its final audit of the Wahkiakum County Public Utilities District’s financial statement for 2008, last week. The November 9 report looked at the areas of highest risk for noncompliance and m...
Skamokawa struggles with the economy
You can almost hear Skamokawa’s economy draining into Steamboat Slough. The recession has left the town’s residents with fewer dollars in their jeans and the question, “Where does the town go from here?” Skamokawa saw what might be called a small r...
WWII veteran recalls sinking of Liscome Bay
The aircraft escort carrier Liscome Bay was struck by torpedoes from a Japanese submarine around 5 a.m. on November 24, 1943, while her planes were being readied for the dawn invasion of Tarawa and Makin Islands. The explosions and fierce fires...
