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

The Wahkiakum Mule football team opened their 2012 campaign with a 34-14 victory over the visiting Mossyrock Vikings last Friday. The Mules showed they could run the ball and pass it as well as they piled up a 21-0 halftime lead. The Vikings twice...

NICE HOLIDAY--Well, if you didn't have a great Labor Day weekend/holiday, it certainly couldn't have been due to the weather as it was pretty doggone nice. We had some clouds, some sun, and some wind but no rain, so hey, that's a big plus for those...

Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: August 27--9:27 a.m. A caller reported a two-car accident blocking one lane of SR 4 near Flandersville. State...

Marion Theresa "Mickey" Carver, 88, of Cathlamet and previously Oak Island, N.C., passed into the arms of her Savior on August 31, 2012 at St. John Hospital in Longview. Mickey was born in 1924 in Trenton, N.J., to Marion Theresa Christof and John...

Judy Ella Lorenzo, 72, passed away on August 31 at home on Puget Island. She was born on June 12, 1940 in Denver, Colo., to Victor and Lucille (Bentley) Ambrosio. Judy graduated from New Westminster Colorado High School in 1958 and married Paul...

Diane E. Clark, 67, of Titusville, Fla., died peacefully at home on August 16 after a year-long battle with cancer. Diane was born in Binghamton, N.Y. on September 29, 1944, daughter of Vivian and Ambrose Winans. She was raised in the vicinity of...

Barbra Lee Worrell, 50, died June 28, 2012 at St. John Medical Center following a battle with cancer. She was born on October 6, 1961 in Tacoma to Robert and Patricia Burrows. For the last 13 years, she lived in Cathlamet with the love of her life...

Youth Advocacy Group seeks parent involvement Students from Wahkiakum High School are asking for parent involvement in the Wahkiakum High School Youth Advocacy Group. The Youth Advocacy Group is a coalition of administration, students, parents,...

Remodel work on the Cathlamet Public Library – Town Hall building is targeted to begin in September. Wahkiakum County Commissioners have agreed to allow use of the River Street Meeting Room as a temporary location. At this time library hours...

The constitution of the state of Washington states that to be a superior court judge, one must be admitted to practice law in the courts of record of the state. Puget Island resident Dennis Gordon is a retired college professor and still works as a...

Wahkiakum County officials are still evaluating their choice of design for a new county ferry. The problem revolves around how much work they want to do and how much they want to spend to match the new ferry with the new ramp built two years ago at...

Tucked just out of view from coast-bound traffic, people from all over the area filled the fields of Fred’s Homegrown Farm – a mock parking lot – and happily progressed from workshops, to cooking, exhibits, and through the farmers m...

In a special meeting last Friday, members of the Cathlamet Town Council voted 4-1 to affirm overtures to Wahkiakum PUD to discuss combining water system billing. Mayor George Wehrfritz approached the PUD in August to ask if that agency would be...

Pirates, political candidates, and John Wayne were all in attendance at the ninth annual Buzzard’s Breath Chili Cookoff last Saturday at the Elochoman Slough Marina. Six teams competed in this year’s event, including Steven and Debra Price from Portl...

To The Eagle: In my opinion, the three most devastating events that can occur in a person’s life, but not in order of trauma are: 1) the loss of son or daughter in war; 2) a woman’s awareness and treatment for breast cancer and; 3) a bitter div...

PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The Southwest Washington Workforce Develoment Council will hold its regularly-scheduled board meeting on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the John Searing Auditorium at the Cowlitz PUD building,...

NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF MEETING FOR THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the September 11, 2012 regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners for Wahkiakum County shall be cancelled. The next...

How many people attended our Fair this year? After totaling all the figures, we had 3,524 people come through our gates! Hope you enjoyed the entertainment, livestock shows, good food and visiting with friends each day. See you at the 2013 Wahkiakum...

This week, I announce some changes in staff. Reporter Melissa Linquist is leaving us, more or less. When we hired her last spring, she was completing her student teaching. It looked like none of the local school districts would be hiring a full-time...

I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend and enjoyed the nice weather we had as well. There were lots of things going on all over the area with yard sales, bake sales, Farmstock in Naselle, and barbecues with friends and family. Haymakers are...