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

CLOUDY BEGINNING--As this week began, we saw lots of clouds and many complained about not seeing the sun, but it really was perfect weather for outside work as it was dry, around 70 and it kept the "it's too hot outside" excuses away from those who...

Lifelong Cathlamet resident, Myra L. “MyLou” Simmons, 79, passed away July 16, 2010 at Woodland Convalescent Center. She was born July 30, 1930 in the Elochoman Valley at Crown Willamette Paper Company Camp, which was later known as Crown Zel...

Cassie Bolton and Akaysha Stonebreaker are the 2010 Wahkiakum County Fair Princesses. You may have already met and talked with them at Bald Eagle Days, as both girls were busy representing the Fair and selling pre-season Fair passes. The passes will...

Wahkiakum County Commissioners Blair Brady, Dan Cothren and Lisa Marsyla had a quick and easy meeting Tuesday as they worked through a light agenda. Business included: --Public Works Director Pete Ringen reported that it appears grant funding from...

Staff and commissioners of Wahkiakum PUD updated the gathered group on ongoing projects during their meeting on July 20. PUD Manager Dave Tramblie announced that a four-hour outage would be needed on July 28 to complete an electrical project on the...

Now that the days are a little warmer and the humidity is lower, we are about to tackle painting my husband’s 1959 Ford pickup. It seems like he has been waiting forever to finally get it done. Darrel Sotka has finally had enough dry days to get t...

Commissioners of Wahkiakum Port District No. 1 met July 8 to discuss improvements to port facilities. Port Manager Jackie Lea reported a contractor has reclaimed an overgrown part of the “F” Dock parking area. The contractor dug out a ditch, lev...

Recently, while in Washington DC Grays River Grange Master Krist Novoselic attended the 50th Anniversary of the Grange’s landmark building in Washington D.C. Grangers from across the country were in attendance to celebrate the occasion. Grangers w...

The Finnish-American Folk Festival of Naselle will be in full swing on Friday, 10 a.m., and continue through the weekend to Sunday afternoon. The fesitval includes a variety of events including exhibits of photography, craft, historical kitchen...

Puget Island resident Bill Coons is running to be Wahkiakum County’s new assessor. Coons said people around the county started encouraging him to run for the assessor’s position early on and he feels his background in selling real-estate in Wah...

After public meetings and the start of applications for grant funds for design work, members of the Cathlamet Town Council said Monday evening they want to revisit the planned parking for the proposed Queen Sally Park. New Mayor George Wehrfritz...

Four years ago, Sulema Zerr took on incumbent Assessor Lucille Nielsen in the general election and won. Now the incumbent with four years in office, she is facing a challenger in Bill Coons. The first term has been challenging at times as taxpayers a...

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) – that’s the name given to the latest threat to the survival of the European honey bee. CCD is characterized by the unexpected die-off of entire bee colonies. For unknown reasons commercially managed hives are sud...

To The Eagle: Response to Daily News, July 16,“Local Economy Has Got Us Optimistic.” Brought instant memories of my fifth grade teacher, repeating, “You Don’t Got Anything!” In addition to the poor grammatical inference, another article concealin...

To The Eagle: As a person who has worked in Public Health for the majority of the last 47 years, as a Public Health Nurse and Public Health Administrator, it was a pleasure to read in the paper recently that the Wahkiakum County Health & Human...

To The Eagle: Well, another Bald Eagle completed and unfortunately there are too many to thank personally so I will just say thanks to all who helped and participated. There is so much to do behind the scenes and most have no idea of the time...

To The Eagle: Many statements made during the recent biosolids seminar hosted by Wahkiakum County were misleading and deceptive. Biosolids is not just human waste, but a complex mixture of thousands of industrial and hazardous chemicals, that are...

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR WAHKIAKUM COUNTY In the matter of the Estate of ) ) No. 10-4-00008-5 LAVERNE E. NEILSON, ) ) PROBATE NOTICE Deceased. ) TO CREDITORS ) RCW 11.40.030 The personal representative named below has...