A Team (Baylee Olsen, Jessica Thomas, Dallas Gott, Whitney Kuller, Morgan Elliott, Tori Wegdahl, Samantha Boyce, Kaylee Bryant and Marissa Longtain. Coach Shelley Olsen) Nov. 8 Adna 37, Warriors 21 Points: Olsen 9, Thomas 2, Kuller 6, Wegdahl 4,...

The Naselle Comet boys and girls basketball teams picked up wins this week. The Comet boys held on to defeat visiting Willapa Valley 50-48, a long-time fan reported Tuesday evening. Leonel Mendoza scored 24 points for Naselle. Rob Baker had 11,...

The visiting Napavine Tigers handed the Wahkiakum Lady Mule basketball team a 43-31 loss on Tuesday. The Tigers went on a 13-point spurt in the third quarter to take control of the game. Leading 24-17 at halftime, they outscored the Mules 18-5 in...

The last two weeks before Christmas brought the Wahkiakum Mule wrestling team into their toughest competition of the year, Coach Matt Stacey reported this week. Competition included the Mules' own Downriver Challenge and the Oroville Tournament....

For the first 16 minutes of play, the Wahkiakum Mules looked as though they were going to avenge an early season loss to the Kalama Chinooks last Thursday. However, redemption will have to wait as a rough third quarter with just four points on...

STILL COLD--Wow, we've had some nippy nights in West Valley but we certainly love the clear, sunny days that have often accompanied them. Our first day of the new year was mostly cloudy and I was fearing snow, but thankfully we didn't get any of...

Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: December 27--4:16 a.m. A caller reported someone is stealing papers from newspaper boxes in Cathlamet. 6:41 a.m....

Roger Lincoln Sonneland passed away at his home in Cathlamet on January 2, 2011. He was 87 years old. Roger was born on February 20, 1923 in St. Helens, Ore., to Blaine Samuel Sonneland and Norma Manning Sonneland. He served in the United States...

Marie M. (Markovich) Didricksen, 89, of Cathlamet, passed away, Thursday, December 30, 2010 in Longview. Marie was born August 12, 1921 in Portland, Ore. to Joseph and Frances (Mladinich) Markovich and grew up on the family farm in Aloha, Ore. At...

Longtime Cathlamet resident, Arlene I. Lawson, 89, passed away January 4, 2011 at Columbia View Care Center. She was born November 3, 1921 in Trenton, NE to Emil F. and Paulina (Hedke) Stienke. She married Jack Lawson in 1935 and together they moved...

The Skamokawa Town Center, whose existence has been up and down since it was extensively remodeled in 1994, has sold. Wahkiakum County records indicate that Don Jester of Rochester bought the property in a cash sale for $575,000 in December. The...

Local realtors are looking for the bottom of the housing boom-to-bust cycle that grips the nation. Foreclosures are driving down the price of homes in Wahkiakum County and financing is unpredictable. “Seems like we’re waiting for what we hope is goi...

Dennis Reid of Skamokawa attended his first meeting representing District 3 on the Wahkiakum PUD board of commissioners Tuesday. PUD General Manager Dave Tramblie advised the board that Wahkiakum County Health and Human Services Community Outreach...

When photographer Judy VanderMaten of the Broadway Gallery saw Becky Ledtke’s jewelry, she arranged for Ledtke to be featured at the gallery in Longview in January. Ledtke’s gemstone necklaces are substantial and dramatic with origins across the glob...

The Cathlamet Town Council wrapped up its budget preparation for 2011 with a special meeting last week. Three major issues remained to be settled, Mayor George Wehrfritz said at the start of the meeting--library staffing, a contribution, if any, to...

In a 2-1 vote, Wahkiakum County commissioners agreed Tuesday to contract with the merged Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce and Lower Columbia Economic Development Council (EDC). The two organizations are merging this year as state funding for EDCs is dry...

To The Eagle: First of all, ask Oliver and Irene Bacon about the history of my folks and me in Cathlamet. Irene took care of me in 1948-49 when my folks taught at Wahkiakum High School. We lived on Puget Island again in 1956-58 when they again...

To The Eagle: In reading the December 30 edition of the Wahkiakum County Eagle, I have some more things that we should all consider and look at thinking positive and expressing our own opinion. I totally agree with our county commissioner on the thou...

To The Eagle: Our editor prizes brevity, which perhaps explains why last week's editorial concerning the Chamber of Commerce/EDC merger was spare in its account of the adventures of the Economic Development Council. In an attempt to rescue the falter...

To The Eagle: As a follow up to a call for citizen help I just wanted to notify the public that your response objecting to the closure of Tunerville camp has been heard and acted on. At a meeting on December 15 that could take the award for probably...

No. 11-02 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR WAHKIAKUM COUNTY In the matter of the Estate of ) ) No. 10-4-00018-2 MILDRED A. BRAWLEY, ) ) PROBATE NOTICE Deceased. ) TO CREDITORS ) RCW 11.40.030 The personal representative named...

PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council will hold its regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday, January 12, 2011, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Klickitat & Skamania Rooms at ESD 112, located at 2500 NE 65th...

Cold, cold, cold! I hope everyone was prepared for it. The sunshine was a Godsend during the days, though, and allowed us to get most of the roofing done on our house. Once it is complete we can concentrate on inside work. News from Naselle: School’s...