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The Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities of Southwest Washington Bi-monthly Meeting of the Council of Governments Friday January 23, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. 201 NE 73rd Street, Vancouver WA 98665 Persons with a disability should call (360) 735-5721 three days before the meeting to discuss accommodation....
NOTICE TO GRAVEL, ROCK AND CRUSHED AGGREGATE SUPPLIERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed quotes will be received by the Wahkiakum County Public Works Department in the County Courthouse at 68 Main Street Suite 2, P.O. Box 97, Cathlamet, Washington 98612 until the hour of 9:45 A.M. on January 27, 2026. Sealed quotes will then be opened and publicly read in the chambers of the Board of County Commissioners for supplying Wahkiakum County with pit-run rock, rip-rap rock and crushed rock for bank protection, road construction and maintenance...
Clatskanie School District 6J PO Box 678 Clatskanie OR 97016 PUBLIC NOTICE The Board of Directors for Clatskanie School District 6J will hold their monthly Board meeting, Tuesday, January 20, 2026 @ 6:30 p.m. at the Clatskanie Elementary Library, 815 Nehalem and via Zoom. The agenda includes but is not limited to: Superintendent and Principal’s reports, financial report, policy updates and the consent agenda. The public is encouraged to attend. Please see our website www.csd.k12.or.us for more information. If you require translation s...
Noxious Weed Control Coordinator Wahkiakum County Immediate opening until filled, Position is 89.5 hours a month. Applicants should have an agricultural background with knowledge of technical activities relating to weed control. Duties include coordinating the noxious weed control program, administration of the cost share program, good math skills, good people skills, and communication skills. The Position is a combination of managerial and hands on fieldwork. Applicants must possess a current valid Washington driver's license within 60 days...
PUBLIC NOTICE SPECIAL MEETING Wahkiakum County Noxious Weed Control Board NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special Meeting of the Wahkiakum County Noxious Weed Control Board will be held commencing at Noon, Wednesday, January 21, 2026. Said Special Meeting shall take place in the River Street Meeting Room, located at 25 River Street in Cathlamet, Washington. The Agenda for said Special Meeting is as follows: Interview Candidates for Wahkiakum County Noxious Weed Manager position Discussion and possible action for the manager position DATED this...
NOTICE TO ASPHALT PRODUCT SUPPLIERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed quotes will be accepted by the Wahkiakum County Public Works Department, in the County Courthouse at 68 Main Street Suite 2, P.O. Box 97, Cathlamet, WA 98612 until the hour of 9:45 A.M. on January 27, 2026 and then publicly opened and read, for the purchase of Commercial Grade hot mix asphalt and EZ Street Bags. Quotes must be submitted on the forms provided and will be opened and read in the chambers of the Board of County Commissioners. Please mark envelopes "2026 ASPHALT...
CLATSKANIE PEOPLE’S UTILITY DISTRICT MEETING NOTICE The Clatskanie People’s Utility District Board of Directors has scheduled the next regular Board Meeting for Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 6:00 pm in the community room of the District’s administration building located at 495 E Columbia River Highway, Clatskanie and virtually via Zoom. A Board Workshop will be held at 5:30 pm. An executive session may be called at the workshop and/or meeting, pursuant to: ORS 192.660 (2) (f) information or records that are exempt by law from public inspe...
CITY OF CLATSKANIE PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The Clatskanie Planning Commission will meet for a special meeting on Wednesday, January 28th, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, upstairs in the Clatskanie Cultural Center. Agenda items include but are not limited to the following: Approval of the minutes of the November 19th, 2025 regular meeting. An updated agenda will be available at City Hall January 23rd, 2026. Please go to the city website, www.cityofclatskanie.com to access the link to attend the meeting...
CLATSKANIE PEOPLE’S UTILITY DISTRICT MEETING NOTICE The Clatskanie People’s Utility District Board of Directors has scheduled the next regular Board Meeting for Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 6:00 pm in the community room of the District’s administration building located at 495 E Columbia River Highway, Clatskanie and virtually via Zoom. A Board Workshop will be held at 5:30 pm. An executive session may be called at the workshop and/or meeting, pursuant to: ORS 192.660 (2) (f) information or records that are exempt by law from public inspe...
WAHKIAKUM COUNTY, WASHINGTON NOTICE OF EXISTENCE OF SMALL WORKS ROSTER AND SOLICITATION OF CONTRACTORS FOR INCLUSION ON SUCH ROSTER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the County of Wahkiakum maintains a General Small Works Roster pursuant to the provisions of Section 39.04.155 of the Revised Code of Washington. The General Small Works Roster may be used to secure price quotations and to award contracts for the construction of public works projects less than $350,000.00 in value. Contractors who desire to have their names placed or maintained on the...
NOTICE OF MEETING Diking Improvement District No. 4 Wahkiakum County, Washington NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Board of Supervisors of Wahkiakum Diking Improvement District No. 4 will meet in Special Session at the office of the County Treasurer’s office, Wahkiakum County Courthouse, on Tuesday, January 20th, 2025, at 4:00 P.M. The Board will consider and act on items on the following Agenda: Approval of prior minutes Review of Financial Reports Approval of vouchers submitted Discussion of Dike Repairs Needed Other business DATED this 6th d...
NOTICE TO ASPHALT PRODUCT SUPPLIERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed quotes will be accepted by the Wahkiakum County Public Works Department, in the County Courthouse at 68 Main Street Suite 2, P.O. Box 97, Cathlamet, WA 98612 until the hour of 9:45 A.M. on January 27, 2026 and then publicly opened and read, for the purchase of Commercial Grade hot mix asphalt and EZ Street Bags. Quotes must be submitted on the forms provided and will be opened and read in the chambers of the Board of County Commissioners. Please mark envelopes "2026 ASPHALT...
NOTICE TO GRAVEL, ROCK AND CRUSHED AGGREGATE SUPPLIERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed quotes will be received by the Wahkiakum County Public Works Department in the County Courthouse at 68 Main Street Suite 2, P.O. Box 97, Cathlamet, Washington 98612 until the hour of 9:45 A.M. on January 27, 2026. Sealed quotes will then be opened and publicly read in the chambers of the Board of County Commissioners for supplying Wahkiakum County with pit-run rock, rip-rap rock and crushed rock for bank protection, road construction and maintenance...
PUBLIC NOTICE SPECIAL MEETING Wahkiakum County Noxious Weed Control Board NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special Meeting of the Wahkiakum County Noxious Weed Control Board will be held commencing at Noon, Wednesday, January 21, 2026. Said Special Meeting shall take place in the River Street Meeting Room, located at 25 River Street in Cathlamet, Washington. The Agenda for said Special Meeting is as follows: Interview Candidates for Wahkiakum County Noxious Weed Manager position Discussion and possible action for the manager position DATED this...
Clatskanie School District 6J PO Box 678 Clatskanie OR 97016 PUBLIC NOTICE The Board of Directors for Clatskanie School District 6J will hold their monthly Board meeting, Tuesday, January 20, 2026 @ 6:30 p.m. at the Clatskanie Elementary Library, 815 Nehalem and via Zoom. The agenda includes but is not limited to: Superintendent and Principal’s reports, financial report, policy updates and the consent agenda. The public is encouraged to attend. Please see our website www.csd.k12.or.us for more information. If you require translation s...
Following a lengthy public hearing and discussion Tuesday, the Wahkiakum County Commissioners approved Ordinance No. 173-26, “authorizing the creation of the Upper Grays River Community Forest.” The interlocal agreement still has to be approved by Pacific County later this month, according to Commissioner Dan Cothren. Wahkiakum County, the Columbia Land Trust, and Pacific County “have been working to create a Community Forest in the Upper Grays River watershed, spanning both counties,” according to Tuesday’s agenda. The goal of the group “is...
Sea lions were the subject of congressional discussions last week. The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources took on the Columbia River’s salmon-eating sea lion problem in a nearly two-and-a-half hour hearing last week. After establishing the scale of the sea lion population explosion around the Pacific Northwest, the meeting looked at the effectiveness of legislative efforts to address the problem — mostly centering around killing them. The killings had largely faded from controversy as other proposed solutions to sa...
Washington spent much of the 1970s trying to become a center for nuclear power, with plans for five huge fission reactors at Richland and Satsop. Then came cost overruns, construction problems, and one of the biggest municipal bond defaults in Wall Street history in 1983. Only one of the five proposed reactors of the Washington Public Power Supply System - or WPPSS, commonly pronounced "Whoops" - was finished at Richland. In 1998, WPPSS became Energy Northwest largely to erase the stigma, and...
components can be tested and validated,” Avalanche’s CEO Robin Langtry said in a statement. Avalanche has roughly 70 employees split between Seattle and Richland. Another company, X-energy, signed agreements last year with Amazon and Energy Northwest for the retail giant to invest $334 million to study putting four modular reactors on the site of the half-built WPPSS Reactor No. 1, which is next to the Columbia Generating Station. This piece of federal land gives the project the advantage of existing infrastructure, including roads and utilitie...
Cathlamet Public Library will be hosting The Astoria Writers Guild Open Poetry Night at the Pioneer Center (125 Columbia St.) Thursday, Jan. 22, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. This event should be a wonderful evening of hearing from poets and storytellers, along with the reading of various song lyrics. Have a poem, story, or song you wish to share? Come one, come all and experience a relaxed time of sharing, listening, and finding community with others. Refreshments to follow the event downstairs in the lower room of the Pioneer Cen...
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) released her 2025 Year-End Report, which highlights the bipartisan results the Congresswoman delivered for Southwest Washington last year. “In Southwest Washington, we know that our community means more than our party affiliation,” said Perez. “When our neighbors have a problem, we sit down and figure out how to solve it. We don’t hang them out to dry just because they vote differently than us. Despite D.C. trying its damnedest to turn everything into a zero-sum partisan game, I’ve kept my head down and...
Because the dates line up, The Eagle has decided to reprint events from 1976. Thank you to volunteer Julie O’Neil and volunteer curator, genealogist, and board member Kari Kandoll. Birthday Party Held A party was held on January 2 in honor of Robbie Kerstetter, on his first birthday. Helping him celebrate at the home of his parents, Bob and Joanne Kerstetter, were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tarabochia, Sr. and family, Mr. and Mrs. David Tarabochia and Kristen, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tarabochia, Jr. and Marcy and Valerie. Mr. and Mrs. Len Tabor of A...
Mieke (Eykel) Beitschat, age 85, of Puget Island, Cathlamet, passed away peacefully in her home on January 8, 2026. Her passing marked the close of a long, vibrant, and deeply rooted life defined by love, adventure, and community. Born on April 1, 1940, in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, Mieke was the youngest of ten children born to Pieter Beitschat and Antje Keuning. Her childhood was filled with the simple joys of Dutch winters-especially ice skating-and as a teenager she sang in a jazz band,...
Betty JoAnn Doumit, 93, of Cathlamet passed away on Jan. 2, 2026, at Hospice in Longview. She was born in Brainerd, Minn., to John and Elizabeth (McIntosh) Wilmar on Sept. 23, 1932. She graduated from Bremerton High School in 1950. She married and had three children who survive her. JoAnn worked as a bookkeeper in the real estate business. In 1984, she married Tom Doumit, a lifelong Cathlamet resident. They lived in Rosburg for several years and later moved to split their time between Cathlamet and Westport, Wash. After a move to Port Orchard,...
Verna Adele Holm, a lifelong resident of Naselle, passed away peacefully at her home on Jan. 1, 2026, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95 years old. Born to Waino and Sigrid Penttila, Verna was the youngest of five siblings: Eldred, Eldon, Joseph, and Rose. She spent nearly her entire life on the same property where she was born, with brief periods away to attend Washington State University and to live in Fort Hood, Texas, while her husband, Charles "Hoopy" Holm served in the military....
