Photo and story by Sunny Manary He doesn’t speak. He doesn’t make eye contact. But his painting caught the eye of his caregivers. Christopher Taylor, son of Cathlamet resident Dian Eakin, is autistic. For the past 20 years, he has lived in a Spo...

Each summer, the Community Foundation celebrates a year of service to the Lower Columbia area with a summer Garden Party at the Julia Butler Hansen Heritage Center in Cathlamet. Bob Crissman from Gallery of Diamonds in Longview has donated a diamond...

Cathlamet Library’s Summer Reading Program, “Catch the Reading Bug,” got off to a grand start on Wednesday morning, July 9. Some of the children who attended the first session are pictured here with new books the Library recently received through a g...

The Wahkiakum High School Board of Directors met July 23 to discuss and act on budget and maintenance projects for the coming school year. Superintendent Bob Garrett told the board that a budget extension was necessary for two funds in the 2007-08 bu...

The Wahkiakum County Sheriff’s Office will sponsor a Prepare Fair to celebrate the National Night Out (NNO) on August 5 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the Wahkiakum County Fairgrounds in Skamokawa. The purpose of NNO is to educate individuals about emer...

Mike Johnson, a Hancock Forest Management forester, explained the process of preparing a culvert installation to students from Naselle and Wahkiakum high schools involved in the summer Columbia Estuary Environmental Education Program. Photo by Sunny...

The annual Grays River Covered Bridge celebration will be held this Saturday in Grays River. The Bridge Celebration will be held at Ahlberg Park on the south end of the Bridge beginning with a walk/run at 9 a.m. with registration starting at 7 a.m....

Summer time is Fair time and the Cowlitz County Fair will be open to the public on July 30 through August 2. I visited the Fairgrounds yesterday while assisting with setting up the Wahkiakum County Grange Display Booth. Many people were busy...

Republican candidate for governor Dino Rossi listened as well as spoke when he made a campaign stop Monday afternoon in Cathlamet. Rossi described his vision for Washington and touted his leadership to a crowd of about 20 persons. Then he invited...

Wahkiakum County residents are invited to attend a public forum for the candidates running for the office of county commissioner on August 6 at 7 p.m. in the River Street Building. The candidates will have an opportunity to speak briefly about...

Wahkiakum County commissioners on Tuesday ordered department heads to make budget reductions totaling $104,000. The cuts are the first round in county government's efforts to cover a $1 million revenue shortfall for 2008. The cuts include $5,160 in...

Candidates for Wahkiakum County commissioner are making final plans for their efforts leading to this year's primary election. Because the primary has been advanced from the third Tuesday in September to the third Tuesday in August, August 19 this...

Effective 12:01 a.m, tomorrow, (August 1), the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR), in cooperation with officials from Wahkiakum County, is enacting a ban on all outdoor burning. All land clearing, residential and silvicultural burning...