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

THURSDAY Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Community Center, Cathlamet, 6-7:15 p.m. Learn to knit, crochet and mend, Sandra Sews, Community Center, Cathlamet, 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Walking Group, Community...

My New Friends the Corvid Family Most people have met corvids yet did not know that was their name. The family of corvids I am referring to is birds of the Corvidae of which there are 120 species worldwide. Commonly recognized in English they are kno...

NHS Boys Baseball March 21 at MMK 4:00pm 25 Oakville 4:00pm 28 at Wishkah 4:00pm 29 Winlock 4:00pm April 01 at Naches 1:00pm 02 at Naches 3:00pm 11 at Lake Quinault 4:00pm 12 at Ocosta 4:00pm 15 Mary M Knight 4:00pm 18 at Oakville 4:00pm 20 Pe Ell...

The Bank of the Pacific will officially transfer ownership of the former Naselle branch building to the Ocean Beach Hospital this Friday. The meeting will take place at 1 p.m. with bank Chief Executive Officer Denise Portmann and members of the...

THURSDAY Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Walking Group, Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Community Center, Cathlamet, 6-7:15 p.m. Food Addicts, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 6-7 p.m. S.A.I.L.,...

Ingenuity in Wahkiakum County People have migrated as individuals, in small groups, and, in many cases, entire peoples have moved their life’s possessions and cultures to new horizons with the intention of creating a better life. Those who settled...

WEATHER--I was happy to see some warmer temperatures at the end of last week and it was very pleasant to see some sunshine coming through the windows that was not accompanied by freezing temperatures outside! However, that all changed as the days...

THURSDAY Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, work night, 7:30 p.m. Puget...

Women Empowered Verses “Rule of Thumb” We use words and phrases every day without really knowing the origin of the words or phrases. For example the 1890's time period was referred to as the “Gay Nineties,” and this had no inference to...

Mt. Vernon Christian ended the Naselle Comets girls basketball team season on Wednesday on the first day of competition at the State 1B tournament in Spokane, 29-19. In a tight, defensive loser out game, the Comets led 9-8 after one quarter, but Mt....

Class 1B Boys Finals 1st/2nd: Sunnyside Christian 54, Yakama Tribal 45 3rd/5th: Muckleshoot Tribal 68, Almira/Coulee/Hartline 44 4th/6th: Odessa 63, Oakesdale 45 Naselle Comets beat Garfield-Palouse 54-51 on Wednesday, lost 54-37 to ACH on Thursday...

To The Eagle: Carlton Appelo died on February 12th at 96 years of age. He was a visionary in business, and in support of his community and region. He made regular trips to Washington DC to meet with elected officials to let them know about current...

THURSDAY Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m.-Noon. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Community Center, Cathlamet, 6-7-15 p.m. Sandra Sews, 10:30-Noon. S.A.I.L., Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 12:45-1:45 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, The Hope Cent...

Life Transitions The reason I am writing this is because of a comment from a young man of 35 years of age who said Grays River had not changed in 20 years. I replied that in 35 years he would look back and see lots of change, to which he agreed....

Submitted by Karen Bertroch, Grays River From the Willapa Pilot newspaper, October 19, 1927 “Western Wahkiakum People are Mighty Proud of Their Own Interlocking Telephone System” Over in the Grays Bay district of western Wahkiakum county, the...

Line Foreman Shane Pfenniger stopped by the Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners meeting to recount the two hour county wide power outage event that took place last week and explain how the crew responded. “The power went out at my house,...

QUIET START--As this week begins, it was just at freezing in West Valley, but other than that, this past Sunday was mostly cloudy but there were even a few sun breaks, so that was nice. I understand the weather for the end of the week may be a bit mo...

THURSDAY Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Community Center, Cathlamet, 6-7:15 p.m. Learn to knit, crochet and mend, Sandra Sews, Community Center, Cathlamet, 10:30 a.m.-Noon. Walking Group, Community...

A Special Thanks to Eagle Readers As long as I have been here I have done a lot of exploring on these old legs along many of the rivers as well as putting a lot of miles traversing the roads in the area. I also have spent many hours at various museum...