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

Submitted by Coach Matt Stacey On Saturday, the Mule Wrestlers began their season at the Mark Morris Three Rivers Classic Invite. First tournaments and first matches are destined to be filled with the jitters and are a great opportunity to establish...

The Wahkiakum Mules opened the 2012/13 basketball season with a narrow 63-58 victory Tuesday night over the perennial bottom-dwelling Winlock Cardinals, coming from behind in the fourth quarter to nip the home team. After leading by as many as 18...

Visiting South Bend took an early lead and never looked back enroute to a 63-47 win over the Wahkiakum Lady Mules last Friday. South Bend led 17-5 at the end of the first quarter on a combination of hot shooting and domination under the boards. The...

The Naselle Comets rallied to defeat the Ilwaco Fishermen 49-45 Tuesday evening. Ilwaco led 35-30 after three quarters. Sam Scrabeck scored nine points, Chandler Chapman nine, David Blaylock and Tony Lopez each had eight....

 WET AND WILD--The last few days have been nothing but wet and at times, more like a monsoon weather rather than just plain old Skamokawa rain. It’s been horrific at times! New rivers have carved themselves into my driveway. My field is once aga...

Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including:  November 26--10:09 a.m. A caller reported that his wife had violated a no contact order. A deputy...

Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including:  November 26--10:09 a.m. A caller reported that his wife had violated a no contact order. A deputy...

William “Bill” Swift, 66, lifelong Cathlamet resident died December 3 at home.  A visitation will be held at Dowling Funeral Home, 45 Broadway St., Cathlamet, on Friday, December 7, from 4 to 6 p.m.  A Celebration of Life service will be...

D. Nadine Aldinger 84, formerly of Cathlamet, passed away on Dec.1 at Hospice Care Center in Longview. Nadine was born on Nov. 5, 1928 in Winona, Missouri. Her family moved to Oregon where she graduated from Warrenton High School in 1946 and...

Morris Deaton died on November 30, 2012 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He was born in Isola, Mississippi on November 19, 1939.  His family moved to Cathlamet in 1949. He graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 1958. He...

Frances E. Thompson Still was born June 24, 1915 to Floyd and Eva Smith in Seattle. She died peacefully November 12, 2012 at Judson Park Retirement Home, Des Moines, WA, where she lived for 24 years.  She lived in Cathlamet with her husband...

The Festival of Trees is now in full swing, so make sure you stop in at The Hotel Cathlamet Lobby to cast your vote for the best tree, wreath, centerpiece and gingerbread house. New designers are entering everyday so the competition is fierce. If...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing an emergency translocation of Columbian white-tailed deer from Julia Butler Hansen (JBH) Refuge for the Columbian White-tailed Deer near Cathlamet to the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) near...

Kyleen Austin has sung the blues in San Francisco, toured the Midwest, and played for 5000 people in New Orleans at a Ray Charles concert. Now, her journey has paused for a time in Wahkiakum County where she is finding inspiration in a quieter way...

The local effort to find new owners and tenants of the closed Columbia View Care Center found a new hurdle to overcome last week. The real estate investment firm that owns the building, Aviv REIT Inc., of Chicago, offered to sell the building to the...

Two new laws that reflect a change in values on the part of Washington voters take effect today (Thursday). First, same gender couples will be able to obtain a marriage license, with the first weddings coming Sunday after a mandatory three-day...

Wahkiakum County commissioners adopted their 2013 budgets and acted on other business at their Tuesday meeting. Commissioners held a public hearing on the budgets on Monday; new Treasurer Tammy Peterson was the only person to comment. Peterson asked...

Oneida Road residents have a beaver to thank for a November 29 power outage, PUD Line Crew Foreman Shane Pfenniger reported to the PUD’s commissioners at a brief December 4 meeting. When the line crew isolated the outage to its point of origin, t...

Wahkiakum County commissioners plan to hold a meeting next week in Rosburg to gather public input on the potential effects of Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber's plan to move gillnetting out of the main channels of the Columbia River. Kitzhaber's plan w...

To The Eagle: As a Wahkiakum high school student, I am concerned about the Julia Butler Hansen White Tail Deer Refuge. I have noticed that it could flood, and I don’t see very many people other than myself are concerned about it. I am an animal l...

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION RESOLUTION FOR THE 2012 BUDGET OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY, WASHINGTON  NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Wahkiakum County, Washington, will conduct a public...

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING  The Southwest Washington Agency on Aging and Disabilities will hold their Quarterly Meeting of the Council of Governments on Friday, December 14, 2012 at 1:00 p.m., at 201 NE 73rd Street, Vancouver, WA 98665, Suite...

NOTICE OF CHANGE OF MEETING TIME OF PORT DISTRICT NO. ONE OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Commissioners of Port District No. One of Wahkiakum County, Washington, have rescheduled their regular meetings to begin at 5:00...

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. TS No.: WA-11-458836-SH APN No.: 250806210010 Title Order No.: 5683761 Grantor(s): DEBBIE BELDEN Grantee(s): MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., ("MERS"),...