Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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The best place to hear stories might just be the Cathlamet Barber Shop on Main Street. The new barber, Stephanie Smith, is from Longview. She took over the shop from Christeena Bassi, who she met at beauty school. She did women's hair off and on for years, but she's discovered she is much happier cutting men's hair. "It's a lot easier on the body," Smith said, describing all the hours she spent with her arms up, coloring, cutting, and styling for women. Now it's high and tight, or "this is six...
Troopers in the Washington State Patrol responded to 41 collisions in Wahkiakum County in 2017, Sgt. Brad Moon reported Tuesday. Troopers also made 1,582 contacts with motorists in the county, Moon said. The largest number of collisions, 12, occurred in the Cathlamet area. There were seven between Cathlamet and Skamokawa, and seven between Skamokawa and Grays River. Five occurred in the Nassa Point area, three each in the Grays River and Rosburg areas, and two each near Deep River and the Cowlitz County line. The largest number of collisions,...
By The Wahkiakum Chamber Of Commerce April 21 Bingo Night Grays River Valley Center ~ 360.465.2310 21 Annual Logger’s Reunion Naselle: Appelo Archive Center ~ Falon Hoven ~ 360 484-7103 28 Tidy Up The Town – Spring Edition, Down- town Cathlamet ~ Pioneer Church ~ Pcacathlamet@Gmail.Com 28-29 Horse Jackpot Playday, Skamokawa Fairgrounds ~ Patty Dursteler ~ 360.795.3480...
ENOUGH ALREADY--I think I can safely say that we have all had our fill of April showers, so let's hope that the forecast of a couple of dry days this week came true, so we could dry out a little bit before the next wet system comes in. Better yet, let's hope that system doesn't come in at all, as we've had enough of the wet stuff, thank you very much! SPECIAL DAYS--Those celebrating birthdays from April 19-25 are Fred Bennett Jr., Linda Mahitka, Jeri Terpsma Pierce, Nancy Granger, Nathan Kindcaid, Max Schmitz, Alyssa Braman, Marie Allen, Susan...
THURSDAY Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m.-Noon. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Community Center, Cathlamet, 6-9 p.m. Girl Scouts, Community Center, Cathlamet, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Learn to knit, crochet and mend, Sandra Sews, Community Center, Cathlamet, 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Walking Group, Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Food Addicts Meeting, Congregational Church, 3rd & Maple, 5:30-7 p.m. Rosburg Community Club, 7 p.m. Cathlamet First Aid...
Steven Dale Harris, 64, of Cathlamet, died at his home on April 8, 2018. He was born in Billings, Montana on May 22, 1953 to Ed and Pat Harris. He graduated from high school in Billings and later received three Masters Degrees. He joined the Army in 1972 and spent three years, then was in the Army National Guard for many years. He spent 28 years working at Boeing as a financial analyst, retiring and moving to Cathlamet in 2010. He was a private person but he enjoyed the Thursday Morning Breakfast Club. He enjoyed traveling and loved history....
Michael S. Harley passed away unexpectedly on April 5th, 2018 at his home in Cathlamet, Washington. He was born in 1956 in Loma Linda California to Ted Harley and Margaret Simmons. While young, he and his family moved between California and Washington State, until he graduated from Helix High School in 1974, when he permanently moved back to Washington. He truly loved the ocean and spent 23 years commercial fishing in the Bering Sea, and locally in Chinook and Ilwaco. For the past 18 years, he...
Eastern Oregon University named 547 students to the dean's list for the 2018 winter term. Qualifying students achieve and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale while completing a minimum of 12 hours of graded EOU coursework. Gunnar Blix of Cathlamet made the cut. He is the son of Lamar and Wendy Blix of Cathlamet....
Lira Grace Abena was born at 10:54 a.m. on April 1, 2018, to Kevin and Heather Abena. She weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz. and was 21.5 inches long. Her parents are originally from Cathlamet, and now live in Kodiak, AK. Lira's mother works at Kodiak Community College and her father works on the fishing vessel Big Blue. Other's welcoming Lira into the family are big sister Livia (age 2) and fur sister Bridger, their black lab. Grandparents are Scott and Pat Kehrli from Puget Island, Tim Abena of Kodiak and...
Tidy Up the Town, sponsored by Pioneer Community Association, will take place on Saturday morning, April 28 from 9 a.m. – noon. Please join us at the Community Center at 9 a.m., and bring your work gloves, shovels, rakes, hoes and wheelbarrows! We are going to work on weeding and cleaning up the sidewalks, flower beds around the Library/Community Center and the Waterfront Trail from the stairs at the point to the bridge. This is a fun way to spend with family, teams, classes and friends as we all pitch in together and make Main Street Shine! W...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: April 9 — 10:06 a.m. A caller reported seeing a suspicious person in the garden on a property in the Elochoman Valley. 11:37 a.m. A driver was cited for speed in Cathlamet. 12:14 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded when a caller reported that an adult male may have suffered a heart attack at the grade school in Cathlamet. 2:04 p.m. A man was taken into custody after violating a protection order. 2:29 p...
Wahkiakum Mules golfers enjoyed some home cooking while extending their intra-conference nine-hole match record to 7-0 beating North Beach 169-262 on Tuesday at Skyline Golf Course, Cathlamet. Tyler St. Onge tied Bryce Good for medalist, each shooting 41 and beating Zach Johnston's 42. Frosh Logan LaBerge carded a 45 to complete the four-ball team score. Heidi Bruntmyer struggled with her putter, shooting 55 to win her heads up individual match with Lana Holt 67. Also playing for the boys were...
Members of the Wahkiakum High School golf team were among the injured in a five-vehicle traffic accident at 1:25 p.m. Thursday. According to a report from the Washington State Patrol, the team was in a 2005 Ford Excursion, fourth in a line of eastbound vehicles stopped for highway maintenance work near milepost 44, about two miles west of County Line Park. A 2014 Ford F350 pickup driven by Niels W. Paulsen, age 84, Centralia, collided with the team van from behind and pushed it into the vehicle in front, causing a chain reaction. Van driver...
In January, a group from the National Park Service's Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance program presented the final draft of the waterfront park concept plan to all who worked on the project. Since then, the town planning commission has reconvened to go over the plan and make some additions and corrections, according to Kerrie McNally, the clerk-treasurer for the Town of Cathlamet, in order to get it ready for the next step--fundraising. Cathlamet resident Robert Stowe, a former...
Legislative and lobbying issues dominated the meeting of the Wahkiakum County board of commissioners on Tuesday. The day started at 8 a.m. with a regional forum featuring state Senator Dean Takko and representatives of Congresswoman Jamie Herrera Beutler and US Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. Topics ranged from this year's legislation in Olympia to the slow progress in completing permit applications for beach nourishment. The legislature had some successes and still has some work to do, Takko said. They passed a bill to address the...
To The Eagle: I think the property tax is mostly due to attitude. I found our county’s assessors on my property before I had my full coffee last spring and I told them they needed an appointment. I was informed by the assessor they could come on my property whenever they wished and indicated they would without my permission. I told them to leave and wound up with a tax increase of over 100 percent. It’s not just how the property is assessed, it’s unnecesary attitude. We are a small enough community we don’t need that. If I remember correct...
To The Eagle: Bill Coons, Wahkiakum’s assessor running for re-election, gave a rather detailed defense of his evaluation of Ms. Hamp’s mobile home property (March 29, 2018 edition), but his closing argument fell flat when he exclaimed, “In fact, a MH on land in the Elochoman sold late last year for $245,000!” Anyone familiar with the valuation and property appeals system would know that the cut-off date for comparable market value sales for the 2017 tax year would be December 31, 2016. According to my research, the sale with which Mr. Coons s...
SOGGY & BREEZY--At the end of last Saturday, we were sitting here looking at two inches of rain on our weather meter, so it was definitely a wet one. While some areas got hit with some strong winds, we here in West Valley had some gusts but nothing as bad as what we first feared, or close to other storms. We woke up to a very wet Sunday, and actually, a little more wind than we thought we'd have. Plus, after looking at the rain gauge, it was a bit shocking to see that we'd already had two inches of rain by noon, so while we thought Saturday...
THURSDAY Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m.-Noon. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Community Center, Cathlamet, 6-9 p.m. Girl Scouts, Community Center, Cathlamet, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Learn to knit, crochet and mend, Susan Sews, Community Center, Cathlamet, 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Walking Group, Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Congregational Church, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Food Addicts Meeting, Congregational Church, 3rd & Maple, 5:30-7 p.m. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Puget Island Fire...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: April 2 — 10:40 a.m. A driver was cited during a vehicle stop on Beaver Creek and his vehicle was towed. 12:38 p.m. A Cathlamet resident living in an apartment downtown discovered a bullet in a hamburger bun. After looking around, the resident found a bullet hole in his ceiling and a wall. 5:50 p.m. A driver was cited for parking in a crosswalk in downtown Cathlamet. 6:04 p.m. A caller reported a vehicle on S...
Gladys V. Spooner, 91, lifelong Wahkiakum resident, died April 7, 2018 at the Hospice Care Center in Longview. She was born November 28, 1926 on Puget Island to Lindor and Albertina (Svenson) Wegdahl. She is the last of four children. Gladys attended school on Puget Island and at Wahkiakum High School. She married John H. Wright and they had four children, later divorcing. On June 22, 1967 Gladys and David Spooner were married and they celebrated 50 years of marriage. Together they managed the Columbia River Apartments for many years. Gladys...
We have some exciting presentations coming up this month hosted by the Wahkiakum Outdoors and the Community Center. The first one is on Wednesday, April 18 from 2-4 p.m., in the dining room at the church previously known as the Cathlamet Congregational Church. The presentation is “Traditional Foods of Wahkiakum County Landscapes,” by Carrie Backman. Carrie will be talking about local plant uses and preparations and how to identify traditional foods in our surroundings. If weather allows, we’ll take a short walk to investigate Cathl...
By The Wahkiakum Chamber Of Commerce April 14 Flea Market 9am Skamokawa Fairgrounds ~ Patty Dursteler ~ 360.795.3480 21 Bingo Night Grays River Valley Center ~ 360.465.2310 21 Annual Logger’s Reunion Naselle: Appelo Archive Center ~ Falon Hoven ~ 360 484-7103 28 Tidy Up The Town – Spring Edition, Down- town Cathlamet ~ Pioneer Church ~ Pcacathlamet@Gmail.Com 28-29 Horse Jackpot Playday, Skamokawa Fairgrounds ~ Patty Dursteler ~ 360.795.3480 May Tbd Open Mic Music Night Skamokawa Grange #425 ~ Jerry Ledtke ~ 360.795.3434 5 Cinco De Mayo Din...
Officials from Wahkiakum County and the Town of Cathlamet on Tuesday set the parameters for a request to lower the SR 4 speed limit to 35 miles per hour. County commissioners will prepare a draft, and once town officials have reviewed and approved it, they'll send it to the Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT). The request is the latest step in the two entities' plan to slow traffic between the intersections at Boege and Elochoman Valley roads to address safety concerns. The officials agreed they wanted to present a unified request...
To The Eagle: I found Lori Hamp’s letter [March 22, 2018 edition] about her experiences with the property tax appeals system in this county to be right on. But Mr. Coons reply seemed evasive and defensive, as if he were running for something. And then Mr. McClain [March 29, 2018 edition] reminds us that indeed there is an election coming for Mr. Coon’s position. Ms. Hamp is absolutely correct that it is a frustrating, time-consuming, deliberately arcane form of harassment and intimidation that most people who have gone through it once would not...
