Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR SHORELINE MANAGEMENT, SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENT, CONDITIONAL USE, OR VARIANCE PERMIT Notice is hereby given that Jon B. Peterson, Who is applicant of the below described property has filed an application for a Shoreline Substantial Development/Conditional Use Permit for the development of an alternate gear type using a temporary Pound Net Test Site for evaluation to determine feasible method to collect, study, and release adult salmon in the Columbia River. Located at Upper Cathlamet Channel of the Columbia River below...
To The Eagle: Property owners of Wahkiakum County, we must give credit when credit is due. The Board of Equalization held a meeting for the property owners on Puget Island, July 27. The meeting represented at least four months work for the board working against huge odds such as the State doing everything in their power to keep tax assessments as high as possible with total disregard to the true market value of the property. The previous appraiser used a bewildering and impossible grading system which led to many properties being very much...
NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY PORT DISTRICT NO. ONE OF WAHKIAKUM COUNTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that due to failure to pay rent and other charges for use of storage space #16, and due to the costs incurred by Port District No. 1 of Wahkiakum County, Washington ("District"), the personal property located in storage space #16 will be sold to the highest bidder for certified funds at the District's office located at 500 Second Street, in the Town of Cathlamet, County of Wahkiakum, to satisfy the owner's lien pursuant to R.C.W. Ch. 19.150....
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR SHORELINE MANAGEMENT, SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENT, CONDITIONAL USE, OR VARIANCE PERMIT Notice is hereby given that Jon B. Peterson, Who is applicant of the below described property has filed an application for a Shoreline Substantial Development/Conditional Use Permit for the development of an alternate gear type using a temporary Pound Net Test Site for evaluation to determine feasible method to collect, study, and release adult salmon in the Columbia River. Located at Upper Cathlamet Channel of the Columbia River below...
PUBLIC NOTICE Town of Cathlamet, 100 Main Street, Cathlamet, WA 98612, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, Wastewater Treatment Facility Relocation, is located at SR4 and Wahkiakum High School Road in Cathlamet, WA, in Wahkiakum County. This project involves 2.2 acres of soil disturbance for wastewater treatment facility, pump station, and utility construction activities. Stormwater will be discharged to Birnie C...
Comprehensive plan committee to meet The Cowlitz County Comprehensive Plan Update steering committee will hold a meeting at the Cowlitz County Historical Museum conference room, 405 Allen Street in Kelso on August 4 from 4 to 6 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend. For more information contact Barb Kincaid at 577-3041. Youth football sign ups begin Any youth entering the 4th, 5th or 6th grade interested in playing youth Football can get a sign up form at the Bank of the Pacific or by calling Kevin Patching at 360-431-8486. A parent meeting...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: July 25--6:38 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid an Elochoman Valley resident having seizures. 1:14 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid a Cathlamet woman with breathing difficulty. 3:36 p.m. A caller reported a brush fire on West Sunny Sands; a Puget Island Fire Department officer investigated and found it under control. 5:50 p.m. A caller reported people were digging freshwater clams at...
GORGEOUS WEEKEND--What a difference a week makes, as last weekend had lots of sunshine. It was great! I hope you were able to enjoy some of this nice weather as it's been so spotty that we have to take advantage of it whenever it shows up! THIS IS IT....DUAL EVENTS--Let's hope we get the same kind of weather for this weekend, as this is the 30th anniversary celebration of Skamokawa Vista Park, complete with a Vendor Market from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. That's 30 vendors including food and live music at times. You can buy tickets for a cord of wood, a...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: July 18--9:36 a.m. A caller said he left his wedding ring on a shelf at a Cathlamet park and it was stolen; a deputy made contact. 11:12 a.m. A caller said two men with a Toyota pickup were taking rock off the dike along South Welcome Slough Road. 11:26 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to transport a person from Cathlamet to a hospital. 2:44 p.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid a person possibly...
One of Gods finest spirits was released back into the world on July 10, 2011. Robert Allen Creech was born September 15, 1945 to William L. and Esther I. (Lindwall) Creech in Cathlamet. He spent his youth growing up in Cathlamet. Bob loved the outdoors, working in the woods as a logger, commercial fishing with his uncle “Bud” hunting and fishing with his brother Bill and his parents, being at the river, and spending time with his daughters, canoeing and camping. He especially enjoyed time with his friends and his mother Esther, whom he consider...
Cathlamet resident, Alfred “Jack” Logston, 77, passed away July 25, 2011 at his Elochoman Valley home. He was born December 7, 1933 in Hiwasse, Ark. to Charles and Ruth (Green) Logston. Jack graduated from high school in Rupert, ID in 1950. He married Sharon Bourne on December 31, 1955; she survives him at home. Jack served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. In 1957 he started his telephone company work with Bell Telephone in Moses Lake, WA. Jack and Sharon moved to Cathlamet in 1992 from Kent, WA and started Jacks Telephone Service in...
Skamokawa Vista Park, one of Wahkiakum County’s treasures, is the result of three local Grangers’ efforts to cash in on federal government development funds. Years after Wahkiakum Port District 2 was formed, the port bought the site that would become Skamokawa Vista Park. The 75-acre park that now features camping, yurts, RV sites, day use and picnic areas and baseball and tennis courts, along with beaches, a boat ramp and stunning views downriver, began when Carlton Appelo of Rosburg, Robert Larson of Grays River and Ture Oman of Puget Isl...
WAHKIAKUM COUNTY REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TITLE: WAHKIAKUM COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS COST ACCOUNTING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ISSUED BY: WAHKIAKUM COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS OPENS: July 28, 2011 CLOSES: August 18, 2011 PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN 4:00 P.M. TO: Wahkiakum County Public Works P.O. Box 97 64 Main Street Cathlamet, WA 98612 360-795-3301 Project Expectations Wahkiakum County Public Works seeks to acquire and implement a comprehensive, automated software product to provide efficient data entry, reliable internal processing and...
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR WAHKIAKUM COUNTY In the Matter of the Estate of ) ) No. 11-4-00009-1 MERLE W. DAVIES, ) ) PROBATE NOTICE Deceased. ) TO CREDITORS ) RCW 11.40.030 The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal...
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Successor Trustee will, on the 5th day of August, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the front steps of the main entrance of the Wahkiakum County Courthouse, located at 64 Main Street, Cathlamet, Washington, sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situate...
File No.: 7037.05486 Grantors: Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, successor by merger to Chase Home Finance LLC Grantee: Renee M. Robert, a single woman, as her sole and separate property Ref to DOT Auditor File No.: 2002793 Tax Parcel ID No.: 150806-420005 Abbreviated Legal: Lot 3, Puget Island Acres, Book "C" of Plats, Page 17 Notice of Trustee's Sale Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq. I. On August 5, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. Outside the main lobby of the Wahkiakum County Courthouse,...
NOT SO NICE--Wouldn't you know, the sun is shining as this work week begins but it sure would have been nice to have sun during the Bald Eagle Day festivities! At least by fireworks time, it was dry enough for folks to get out and enjoy them. Right now, it's steamy outside as all this moisture is just cooking up out of the ground by this sun and making us feel quite uncomfortable. They say we're in for a so-so week with nicer, more summer-like temperatures come Sunday--we'll see! NOT OUR HEIDI--You may have heard that a Heidi Lynn Knowles was...
Wahkiakum Port District #1 commissioners met July 14 at the Elochoman Marina office. Cathlamet Public Works Superintendent David Vik, Mayor George Wehrfritz, and Consulting Engineer Kevin Brown from engineering firm Gray and Osborne, attended the meeting to discuss the town’s plans for Third Street and to invite the port district to extend improvements onto port property. Last year the town received a $500,000 grant from the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board to redesign a portion of Third Street, said Brown. The site, a c...
The Town of Cathlamet has been awarded federal funding for a new wastewater treatment plant. The project, supported jointly by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce, is projected to cost $8.4 million and be completed in 2013. The planned facility will be located outside town and away from the Columbia River; it will replace a failing sewage plant built in the 1960s. “We’re removing an eyesore and a public health risk from our historic waterfront,” said Mayor George Wehrfritz. “The project will be transfo...
GORGEOUS--The weekend was great after rain fell last week; not a welcome sight to those who had hay down, but luckily the sun returned and dried the hay, so tractors were tedding and got the hay in wind-rows and then the pounding of the balers and bale wagons made for some long, long days, but some great hay! It's a bit drippy this Tuesday, and I hope they're over and done with by this weekend as we've got a busy time ahead! THIS FRIDAY--One of our local artists, Mike Rees, will have several of his color photographs on display at the new Tsuga...
Wahkiakum County law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel handled a variety of reports during the past week, including: July 4--3:51 a.m. The Cathlamet ambulance responded to aid an East Sunny Sands resident who was unconscious. 9:20 a.m. A caller reported a pit bull loose and roaming the Salmon Creek bridge area. A deputy made contact. 6:26 p.m. A Deep River Road resident reported gunshots and a bullet that hit the caller's residence. An officer investigated. July 5-- 2:04 a.m. A report of a decomposing deer by the side of...
Patricia "Gale" Kinler, 54 of Medford, Ore. died on June 27, 2011. She was born to James and Betty Hawkins on December 29, 1956 in Sparta, Tenn. and married Jim Kinler on July 7, 1977; together they raised four children. She is survived by her husband; her children Nicci Bergseng of Cathlamet, Michael Kinler and Sherry McGee of Medford; daughter-in-law Codi Zrbin of Medford; mother Betty and stepfather Jim; sisters Kathy Force and Shawna Arnett, and brother Jeff Arnett, all of Troy Ohio; and 13 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her...
Deon Brown, 74, of Cathlamet died July 11, 2011. A memorial service will be held tomorrow (Friday) at St. James Episcopal Church in Cathlamet. A full obituary will be printed in a future issue of The Eagle....
Bob Jungers is proud of Elochoman Millwork, a Cathlamet company whose primary market is the highest of high end homes in Hawaii. The business produces doors and does custom millwork for residential and commercial facilities like hotels, condominiums and time-shares. Bob and Dawn Jungers began the business in 1984, which currently has 15 employees, some of whom are family. Jungers handles sales, bidding and purchasing, his nephew, Robert (Roman) Jungers is the chief engineer who works with computer assisted machines and scheduling. Jungers’ w...
The 2011 David Thompson Canoe Brigade on Friday will complete its voyage following the length of the Columbia River. A Scot, Thompson came to Canada as an adolescent and explored its western regions as well as northern Washington, Idaho and Montana. One member of the expedition is an 8th generation Thompson family member, Ben Thompson. The group landed Thursday at mid-day at the Villa at Little Cape Horn, leaving canoes there, and returning to camp at Willow Grove. County Commissioner Lisa...
