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

There won't be a religious manger scene this year on the Wahkiakum County courthouse lawn. The Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce has, for years, decorated the lawn and plantings with holiday lights and figures, including a Santa Claus. On Tuesday, five...

Wahkiakum County commissioners will lobby this winter for better representation of the commercial industry among high level state officials. Gillnetter Kent Martin of Skamokawa presented Tuesday an economic analysis of the industry's value to the cou...

To The Eagle: The Wahkiakum Food Bank served 130 families with turkey baskets. Believe me, there is more to it than just handing out baskets. We had many outsiders come in and help our regular workers and volunteers. Ritchy and his crew cleaned out...

Report recommends the company implement safeguards to prevent future outages State regulatory staff released an investigation report December 2 on the six-hour 911 outage that occurred earlier this year, recommending CenturyLink be penalized up to...

CHANGES--We've gone from freezing temperatures to warmer ones, but with that comes the rain. As we begin this week, it wasn't too bad but they say in the next few days we're going to get quite a bit of it, so by the time you read this, you'll be sure...

THURSDAY Financial Management, Community Senior Center, 100 Main St., 10 a.m.-Noon. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire District No. 3 Commissioners, 7:30 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, fire training, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire...

News from Naselle: Sports calendar for the coming week for the Naselle Comet teams: Friday, the 12th- boys basketball with Valley in Naselle at 4:30 p.m. followed by girls basketball at 5:45; Monday, the 15th-middle school girls basketball with...

The Appelo Archives Center will host a day of events on December 13. This day is celebrated in Scandinavian countries as Saint Lucia Day. Children dress in white and carry candles and bright stars to bring the light back to the dark north winter....

Plan to attend Holiday Traditions, the North Coast Chorale annual holiday concert at the Clatsop Community College Performing Arts Center (PAC) set for Saturday, December 13 at 7 p.m., and Sunday, December 14 at 2 p.m., at the corner of Franklin and...

Backyard and other birdwatchers in the Pacific Northwest can now enter their bird observations into eBird Northwest ( www.ebird.org/nw ), a newly launched regional system of information sharing about birds. Participant entries help Washington...

Northwest Farmers Union and President Kent Wright hosted an informational discussion on the proposed new beef checkoff program that USDA Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack is promoting throughout the U.S. The meeting was attended by a strong...

David “Roy” Campsall, 91, a former Cathlamet resident, died in Duncan, British Columbia on Vancouver Island on November 23, 2014. Roy was born in Edmonton, Alberta on September 22, 1923. As a child his family moved to Vancouver, B.C. He met Del...

Violet (Vi) Jane Centers, of Cathlamet, died November 27, 2014, at home, at the age of 82. She was born one of 13 children on September 1, 1932 in Grand Rapids, Mich., to Walter and Jane (Fox) Anderson and moved to Washington in 1974. Vi worked as a...

Longtime Cathlamet resident Inez A. Danielsen died on December 1, 2014. She was born on January 23, 1919 to George and Esther Ohrberg in Hoboken, New Jersey. The family moved west in the thirties and Inez graduated from Wahkiakum High School in...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is seeking nominations through Dec. 19 for membership on its advisory group for salmon management in Grays Harbor. The advisory group consists of up to 12 members. The group advises WDFW on...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is accepting grant applications through Feb. 28, 2015 for volunteer projects that benefit fish and wildlife. WDFW currently expects from $1.1 to $1.36 million to be available for these grants,...