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

The Napavine Tigers played an almost perfect football game to defeat the Wahkiakum Mules 23-12 last Friday in a Central League game. The Tigers built a 20-6 halftime lead and did what they needed to do to survive a determined Mule rally in the...

The Naselle Comets steamrolled the Northwest Christian Navigators 48-7 in Pacific League football last Friday. In the first quarter, Robert Eaton and Sam Scrabeck scored on runs of six and 23 yards, and Dustin Eaton passed to Chandler Chapman for a...

The Wahkiakum 8-3 Mule volleyball team swept Mossyrock 3-0 last Thursday and visited Napavine on Tuesday. The Mules defeated Napavine 26-24, 25-18, 22-25, 25-15. Coach Jeff Rooklidge said many players turned in outstanding performances. "Tori...

Mule Coach Marie Riley filed this report: Tuesday, Oct. 11, found us in Rainier, WA battling wind, rain and occasional sun breaks. Another big field of participants awaited us on this day. Nine schools showed up to battle it to the finish line. In...

NICE--It's been a pretty decent weekend as we had a drying trend show up that helped brighten everyone's spirits, I bet. I think it also brought out everybody's lawn mowers one more time and hopefully the last. While the day time temperatures were ni...

Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: October 3--6:04 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to a Middle Valley residence to aid a child whose hand...

Lifelong area resident, Robert B. “Rob” Webb, Jr., 77, passed away October 11, 2011 at his home in Cathlamet. He was born May 30, 1934 in Corvallis, Ore. to Robert, Sr. and Muriel (Hall) Webb. The Webb family moved to Skamokawa in 1942. Rob gra...

Puget Island resident, Christopher Wade Chevalier, 34, passed away October 16, 2011. He was born January 27, 1977 in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Fred Chevalier and Loretta (Prestegard) Chevalier. He grew up in Cathlamet and graduated from Wahkiakum High...

Layton Elliott is opening a new accounting business in Skamokawa, carrying on the tradition of his mother-in-law, the late Evelyn Caroll, who operated Evelyn’s Bookkeeping Service. Elliott said, “Unfortunate events allowed us to afford to live here,...

Voters residing in the confines of Port District No. 2 have Wahkiakum County's only local contested election on the November ballot. Lori Scott is challenging Carlton Appelo for Appelo's seat on the port commission. Appelo was one of the three...

Commissioners of Port District No. 2 took care of house keeping measures and discussed a variety of issues when they met October 18. The commissioner passed resolutions formally adopting the 2012 budget and increasing tax the 1 percent allowed by...

With the first round of the 2012 budgeting process coming soon, Wahkiakum County got the good and bad news from the State Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday. The good news is that the county will receive almost $600,000 more this year from...

The Cathlamet Town Council gave approval to its proposed budgets for 2012 at its monthly meeting last Monday. The council's finance committee will fine tune the budget for final action at a future meeting. The council also voted 4-1 to uphold a...

To The Eagle: Recently, I traveled to Washington, D.C., to represent cancer patients and survivors in the Third Congressional District and delivered their messages of hope for a future without cancer. I joined more than 600 American Cancer Society...

To The Eagle: I tried for two days to contact Pat Reese to tell her how much I enjoyed her response letter to The Eagle and how surprised I was that a nonresident of the town of Cathlamet felt that the town government was more important than the...

To The Eagle: Calculating the unsuitability of solar panels and wind generators for use in public utility grid power involved Boolean algebra and Aristotelian logic and runs something like this: solar panels don't work when the sun don't shine and...

COUNTY OF WAHKIAKUM Notice of Public Meetings Wahkiakum County Canvassing Board NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following Public Meetings will be held in conjunction with the processing, tabulation, canvassing and certification of election returns...

Notice and Public Explanation of a Proposed Activity in the 100-Year Floodplain and Wetland Town of Cathlamet PO Box 68, 100 Main Street Cathlamet, Washington 98612 360 795 3732 To: All interested Agencies, Groups and Individuals This is to give...

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF MEETING DATE FOR THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY COMMISSIONERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Tuesday, November 1, 2011, Regular Meeting of the Board of County Commissioners for Wahkiakum County shall be...

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR SHORELINE MANAGEMENT, SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENT, CONDITIONAL USE, OR VARIANCE PERMIT Notice is hereby given that Richard E. Morris, Who is applicant/Property Owner of the below described property has filed an application for...

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Wahkiakum County Planning Commission will hold a public meeting on Thursday, October 27, 2011, at 6:00 p.m. in the Public Meeting Room on the 3rd floor of the Wahkiakum County Courthouse, 64...

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF WAHKIAKUM IN PROBATE IN THE MATTER OF THE ) ESTATE OF: ) No. 11-4-00015-6 )  ANNE G. SNYDER, ) ) PROBATE Deceased. ) NOTICE ) TO CREDITORS ) (RCW 11.40.030) The Personal...

NOTICE OF TOWN OF CATHLAMET WORKSHOP Notice is hereby given that the Council for the Town of Cathlamet will hold a Workshop for the Cathlamet Blanche Bradley Public Library design RFQ. This workshop will be held on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 7:00...

Did you cash your fair check yet? Don’t forget! Fair checks have to be cashed before the end of October. I will keep reminding you each week! If you haven’t received your check yet, give me a call. Want to help sponsor next years fair? Donate you...

Vote-by-mail ballots will soon arrive in the mailboxes of Washington's registered voters. With the presidential election out of the way two years ago, there's not much on the ballot. Voters living in the confines of Port District 2 have the only...