The Wahkiakum County Eagle - Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891

COLD, WHITE, WET AND WINDY--Well, we found out this past week that winter is definitely still here and depending on where you were and what day it was in this past week, you were either freezing cold, or dealing with many inches of snow or you were...

Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: February 21--9:57 a.m. A Cathlamet resident reported a person keeps taking a bicycle without permission; an...

Floyd Herman Hoven, Jr., 67, of Yreka, Calif. died February 15, 2011 at his home. He was born on May 8, 1943 in New Haven, Mich. and worked many different jobs. He went back to school to get his high school diploma in 1998 and at that time, he got...

Deanne Durham, 53, of Cathlamet, passed away February 24, 2011 at her home. She was born June 25, 1957 in Stockton, Calif. to Treweet and Diana (Rogers) Spencer. She graduated from Kamiah High School in Idaho. On August 23, 1975 she married Steve...

The Wahkiakum County Fair Board has an open position on the board! We would like to find a person with new ideas for Fair time events to fill this position. Someone with time to dedicate to the Wahkiakum County Fair and to the Wahkiakum County Fair B...

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...

The Wahkiakum Public Utility District board of commissioners met briefly Tuesday and adopted standards for a new donation program. The PUD is accepting resumes for the vacant commissioner position through March 18 and has received two applications...

The Naselle - Grays River Valley School Board met February 15 to discuss preparations necessary to include a bond measure on the February, 2012, ballot. The first step, explained District Superintendent Rick Pass, is for the board to advertise a...

Ebbie Hantke started to manufacture his one-of-a-kind sports car 12 years ago in Kurt Nielsen’s shop on Puget Island. Nielsen died before the car was finished, but his contributions to the car extend beyond the space to work. In addition to e...

The foreclosures that hit the county’s real estate market in 2009 continue to depress the local housing market, and local realtors fear more are on the way. A review of Wahkiakum County Property Sales spreadsheet indicated nine foreclosures c...

Dixie Kolditz was born in South Africa, moved to the US for college, and is now getting adjusted to rural life. She’s relishing the feeling of small town life she finds in Cathlamet. Kolditz owns Open Box Creations, a wholesale décor b...

The Wahkiakum County board of commissioners voted 2-1 Tuesday to draft a county ordinance prohibiting the application of certain biosolids in the county. In response to citizen concerns raised last year, the board has been studying how to control the...

The Wahkiakum County board of commissioners on Tuesday followed up on issues affecting the county assessor's office and heard a report on the health of the Cathlamet Family Health Center. The board signed a letter to the Board of Equalization support...

To The Eagle: It is with a sad and heavy heart that I write this letter. My husband came home with the news today that the "guardian of the mountain" had passed recently. I'm sure most other drivers were at least aware of him because of his sheer siz...

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR SHORELINE MANAGEMENT, SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENT, CONDITIONAL USE, OR VARIANCE PERMIT Notice is hereby given that Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet), Who is applicant of the below described property has filed an application...

File No.: 7025.20383 Grantors: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. Guild Mortgage Company Grantee: Brent T. Mahitka and Hilarie D. Lasron, both single persons, as Joint Tenants with right-of-survivorship, and not as Tenants-in-Common, and not as...

NOTICE OF ELECTION The Wahkiakum Conservation District is pleased to announce an opportunity to contribute to conservation and your community by serving on the Board of Supervisors. Supervisors are public officials who direct the activities of conser...

NOTICE OF MEMBERSHIP MEETING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Pioneer Community Association will hold its annual membership meeting on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. at the Pioneer Church. This meeting will include election of board members, and...

NOTICE OF CALL FOR BIDS  Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of Wahkiakum School District No. 200, Wahkiakum County, Cathlamet, WA, is calling for bids for a logging project of approximately 4 acres on the District's farm forest...

NOTICE OF MEETING DATE & WORKSHOP FOR PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. ONE OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY WASHINGTON NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Commissioners of Public Utility District No. One of Wahkiakum County, Washington, will hold their regular...

PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council will hold its regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Heritage Room at Lower Columbia College located at 1600 Maple in...

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SEEK COVERAGE Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet), 5802 Overlook Ave NE, Tacoma, WA 98422, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge G...

The Wahkiakum School District is developing a policy that would guide staff in reporting students who may be under the influence of drugs and alcohol and have them tested for the presence of the controlled substances. The goal, district officials say...