Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Mule Wrestlers participated in the Beach Brawl tournament in Ilwaco on Saturday. This was the last regular season tournament for the team. WIAA has set a 33 match limit during the regular season and some of the wrestlers were almost there. This puts wrestlers in the position of having to default once they hit that cap; the team had two boys who were forced to do so. Luke Stacey wrestled at 132-lbs. and had two wins and one loss when he hit the limit and had to default out of the tournament. Alex Johnson and Mason Mackey wrestled in the 145-lb....
The Wahkiakum Mule boys basketball team came from behind to topple league foe Onalaska last Wednesday night, beating the third-placed Loggers 50-44. The Mules entered the final quarter trailing by four points but they came out and hit three triples and went a perfect 8 for 8 from the line down the stretch to outscore the Loggers 17-7. Shane Souvenir spearheaded the Mules’ offense with 22 points and corralled a team high seven rebounds. Souvenir also blocked six Onalaska shots. Seth Doumit c...
The bench got a lot of playing time on Tuesday night as the Lady Mules made quick work of a weakened Mossyrock team, winning 64-30. The Vikings struggled to perform with one of their best competitors out for the night. Tori Wegdahl and Kaylee Bryant led scoring with 13 points apiece. Baylee Olsen added 12, and Sam Boyce scored eight. Savannah Burdick and Payton Souvenir added four. Jessica Thomas, Tyra Elliott, Marissa Longtain, Grace Peacock and Maya Stanley each had two points. Bryant had nine...
CRISPY--Monday morning of this week saw a few snow flakes falling around our house but it didn't stick around long, but on Tuesday morning, the frost is so thick that it looks like it snowed, and I was told a few flakes actually showed up in a couple of places. At any rate, it looks like our arctic blast has arrived and by the time you read this, we'll supposedly have plummeted into the teens, so I do hope you've all taken the necessary precautions so as not to freeze up, as the high temperatures during the day weren't supposed to get above...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: January 27 –9:44 a.m. A caller reported finding a piece of a floating dock. 2:10 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to a Puget Island residence to aid a woman who had fallen. 2:33 p.m. The Cathlamet Fire Department responded to a Puget Island residence to assist with a lift. 7:24 p.m. A deputy secured an office after a door was found open; a responsible party was notified. 7:34 p.m. The Cathlamet...
Starting Feb. 3, Washington State Department of Transportation crews will be doing some heavy cleaning on three steel bridges in Cowlitz and Lewis counties. The State Route 4 Peter Crawford, State Route 433 Lewis and Clark, and the northbound Interstate 5 Cowlitz River bridges will all get a scrubbing over the next two months. Over time, bridges accumulate various substances that can damage the structure, including dirt, mildew, road spray, chemicals, and bird and animal feces. A regular washing cycle can reduce damage and help improve the...
Are you expecting? Do you have children under the age of three? If you answered yes to either of those questions, then St. James Family Center would like to invite you to join them and other local families in a program funded by Thrive by Five, a non-profit organization that focuses on child development and early learning. The program, Parents as Teachers, is designed to provide support for parents of young children from birth to age three. They even work with people who are expecting....
Anticipating a strong return of spring chinook salmon, fishery managers from Washington and Oregon on January 29 set the initial 2014 fishing season to run through April 7 on the lower Columbia River. Starting March 1, anglers fishing downriver from Bonneville Dam may retain one marked, hatchery-reared adult spring chinook per day. The sport fishery will close in that area on two Tuesdays - March 25 and April 1 - to accommodate potential commercial fisheries. Anglers fishing above the dam will also have a one-fish daily catch limit for hatchery...
With seven kids and one on the way, Lori and Matt Stacey’s family could keep the local Veterans of Foreign Wars smiling for years to come. This year, their two oldest children, Luke, a junior, and Katie, who is in eighth grade, entered writing contests sponsored by the VFW and placed first in state for their age groups. Younger brother Ted won at the post level for sixth grade students. What may be just as remarkable as two kids from the family winning a state contest is the fact that they a...
Ashley Turner, the new Director of the Chamber of Commerce attended Tuesday’s meeting of the Board of Commissioners for the Wahkiakum PUD. Turner is proactively seeking to create better partnerships with local entities and has committed herself to attending PUD meetings on a regular basis. She and the commissioners discussed how they might rewrite their current contract so that the Chamber might provide more specific services for the PUD. “Our goal is to deliver the highest quality, dependable s...
The Cathlamet Channel in southwest Washington is about to become the state’s second off-channel or select area commercial gill-net fishery. In a state that has few potential off-channel sites for rearing and fishing on the lower Columbia River, this may be the only remaining site available in Washington. The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission approved in January 2013 new limits in the lower Columbia on non-tribal, gill-net fishing in the mainstem of the river as a way to reduce the impact of commercial fishing on wild salmon and steelhead...
Biologists looking into the cause of hoof rot disease in elk need to consider new options, Wahkiakum County Commissioner Dan Cothren said this week. Cothren, an avid hunter, was instrumental in getting the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to begin looking into the phenomenon, which is affecting elk between Mt. St. Helens and Willapa Bay. The disease causes abnormal growth in the hooves of elk, and they go lame. Biologists haven't yet identified the cause of the disease. Cothren serves on an advisory committee the department formed to...
Following the winter hiatus, Friends of Skamokawa at Redmen Hall will reopen Saturday, March 1 with its popular antique sale. Consignments will be accepted at the hall, 1394 W. SR 4 in Skamokawa, from noon until 4 p.m. on February 24 and 25. All items must be tagged with price, consigner number (which will be assigned), and listed on a form provided. The consignment fee is 25 percent on items sold. The sale will run Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2, and continue Thursday, March 6 through Sunday, March 9. Pick up of unsold items is scheduled...
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has installed floating pens at Cathlamet to raise juvenile salmon for future fisheries. The net pens were moved from Deep River to the town dock about three and a half weeks ago, according to Kodi Buchanan, who works at the Beaver Creek Fish Hatchery. He or a coworker drives over daily to check the temperature of the water and feed the fish. The structure houses eight pens. Each pen is 10 feet deep and holds 25,000 fish. They experience a daily...
This Saturday and Sunday, motorists and customers at the Cathlamet Market on Main Street and the Chevron Station on SR 4 will encounter volunteer firefighters and emergency responders in uniform asking for donations for the Kiwanis Doernbecher Children’s Cancer Research Program (KDCCP). Fire and ambulance crews from the Cathlamet Fire Department (CFD) and Wahkiakum Fire Protection District 4 (FD4) are teaming up with Kiwanis Club of Cathlamet members to raise funds used to hire post-doctoral level cancer research specialists at OHSU’s Doe...
Wahkiakum County is looking for persons interested in serving on the Agricultural Tax Advisory Committee. According to an announcement from the office of the board of county commissioners, this committee represents the active farming community within the county and will serve in an advisory capacity to the county assessor in implementing assessment guidelines as established by the Department of Revenue for the assessment of open space, farm and agricultural lands and timberlands. The successful applicant will serve a one year term and the...
By a 2-1 vote, Wahkiakum County commissioners approved Assessor Bill Coon's request to increase his part-time appraiser/deputy to a full-time appraiser. Coons has brought the request to the board of commissioners several times, and Tuesday, he presented his case again: Following state law, the county is moving from a cycle of property revaluations from every four years to every year. The change will require more appraisal work than staff can handle, he said. The promotion would cost an extra $3,213.88, Coons said. He added that total salary...
To The Eagle: Our President has set the precedent for a new world wide immigration policy. If an Adobe Photoshop forged birth certificate is good enough for the leader of the free world who is concurrently the leader of the world’s most powerful nation, it should also be good enough for any resident of any country in the world. All anyone should need is to reside in any given country and have a few bucks for someone skilled in Adobe Photoshop and you, too, can prove you are a native born citizen of whatever country you choose. You can do it a...
School levies seem to be a part of life. Despite appropriations from the state for the costs of basic education, school districts still need to ask voters to tax themselves to cover expenses that state funds don't cover. And this Tuesday is election day for the Wahkiakum School District's request for a special levy. School personnel have taken to calling it a replacement levy, for the levy would replace a similar levy which voters approved four years ago at a similar tax rate. As The Eagle reported in November, the levy pays for technology...
More frosty mornings and probably cold, cold daytime temperatures for the next few days. Make sure you are prepared for the freezing nights, possible frozen water pipes and make sure your pets are warm and safe. News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the Naselle Comet teams for the upcoming week include: Thursday, the 6th-girls basketball with South Bend in Naselle at 7 p.m.; Friday, the 7th-boys basketball at South Bend at 5:45 p.m.; Monday, the 10th-middle school boys basketball with North Beach at 5:45 p.m.; Wednesday, the 12th-middle...
Greetings from the Sheriff. Here again to share some news and updates from the WCSO. We are happy to say we once again have a deputy at the Johnson Park substation on Tuesdays from 3-5 p.m. If you need to fill out an accident report, vacation house check form, etc., or want to talk to a deputy in person, this is a good time to stop by. Deputy Mark Hake is our newly assigned School Officer Liaison. The Sheriff's Office is dedicated to having a deputy assigned as a liaison officer for the schools and although he is not assigned full time, will...
The public is invited to attend a community forum to gather ideas for the expenditure of approximately $4.3 million of federal funds over the next five years. The funds are to be used to improve housing and for community projects that serve low-to-moderate income persons and neighborhoods, and to expand economic opportunity in Longview and Kelso. There are two upcoming opportunities to provide input on community needs for the five- year Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan. A general community meeting for Kelso will be held at...
Online resources are available for Washington homeowners facing foreclosure. The Foreclosure Fairness Act, passed in 2011, was designed to help homeowners and their lenders explore possible alternatives to foreclosure and reach a resolution when possible. The program, overseen by the Department of Commerce, provides counseling and information about possible mediation with lenders. Housing counseling services are free to Washington residents, and are funded by the state with money from lenders. Thousands of homeowners have met with housing...
The following students made the Seattle Pacific University 2013 Autumn Quarter Dean’s List: Alan Michael Erickson of Rosburg and Madeline Grace Rooklidge of Cathlamet. Students on the Dean's List have completed at least 12 credits and attained a 3.50 or higher grade point average....
