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Cathlamet’s elected leadership is planning ahead. Town council members spent the bulk of their April 3 meeting in workshop mode to discuss the first draft of a new comprehensive plan. The 80-page draft was prepared under contract with the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments. It replaces a previous plan approved back in 2002. Once updated and officially approved, a new comprehensive plan will require updates every 10 years. Council members discussed the document’s introduction and chapters on land use and a community profile. They will con...
A large, abandoned boat tried to sink recently at the Elochoman Slough Marina. Marina staff and salvagers battled low tide to push it on a trailer for removal. Photos by Ian Brandon....
THURSDAY Wahkiakum Fire District 3 Commissioners, 7:30 p.m. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, work night, 7:30 p.m. Puget Island Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum Fire District 2 Commissioners, Skamokawa Fire Hall, 7 p.m. Cathlamet Public Library Board of Trustees, 12:45 p.m. Free Senior Fitness and Balance Class, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple,...
On Friday, high school and middle school students in the Wahkiakum Mecha Mules Robotics Club qualified for the SeaPerch International Underwater Robotics Competition, which takes place in Maryland in May. Wahkiakum School District will cover airfare for the seven member team and coaches headed to the competition, but the team is hoping to raise about $12,000 to support the trip, which will include a visit to Washington D.C., as well as other SkillsUSA and FIRST Tech Challenge competitions....
With catches lower than expected in March and early April, the recreational spring Chinook salmon fishery on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam will see four additional days of fishing, fishery managers from Washington and Oregon announced Tuesday. The stretch of river from Buoy 10 to Bonneville Dam, which was previously scheduled to close to salmon fishing on April 7, will now be open through April 11. “Conditions so far this spring have been less than ideal for fishing,” said Ryan Lothrop, Columbia River fisheries manager with the Was...
It's become home, but Cathlamet was only supposed to be a last stop on Tom Robert's pikeminnow fishing tour. "I was traveling all around the northwest in my RV," Roberts said. "I wasn't catching many fish, so I thought, one more stop and then I'm going to stop this fishing." He'd been in Cathlamet only once before, about 25 years earlier, returning from adventures on his oceangoing sailboat. The town and it's people made an impression even then, but this time he warmed to the community even...
The Wahkiakum School District Board of Directors heard a presentation on the robotics program, discussed possible outcomes from the recent Supreme Court hearing on the school district’s lawsuit, and got an update on new security. The meeting began with a presentation from advisors, coaches, and one student involved in the robotics program. The student, Jamie Heston, said that students attended First Tech Challenge state, and took 13th place out of 32 teams. He said they were now preparing for a...
Wahkiakum County officials discussed details of how Washington is handling multi-million dollar settlements from suits against producers and distributors of opioid medications when they met Tuesday. They also made appointments to the county planning commission and approved calls for bids on a variety of projects for various county departments and accepted a bid for annual mowing of county roadsides. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson brought the suits against the opioid producers and distributors; it resulted in a nationwide settlement...
Third, fourth, and fifth grade students performed sea shanties in front of a packed house in the J.A. Wendt Elementary School multipurpose room on Friday for their spring music program. Photos by Diana Zimmerman....
The Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce held their annual Hook the Hawg spring salmon derby. There were lots of happy anglers. Winners of prizes for the largest fish were, l-r, Dan first, Zac second and Chelsey third. Courtesy photos. (Editor's note: Because of circumstances beyond our control, more detail was unavailable.)...
A public-school grant program to help students evaluate news reports would be established if a bill passed by the state Senate makes its way through the House of Representatives. The amount of the grant program awarded to teachers and school districts proposed in Substitute Senate Bill 5626 by Sen. Marko Liias, D-Mukilteo, is unspecified. Funding would be subject to the final budget approved later in this year’s legislative session for the 2003-2005 biennium, The bill passed the Senate 44-4. Jen Ligot, Washington State Council for Social S...
Commissioners of Wahkiakum County Port District 2 met last Tuesday in Gray's River. Commissioners agreed to increase the port manager's salary to $67,400 per year; they also passed a resolution continuing delegation of authority for the port manager to act for the district in emergencies and in other specified circumstances. In new business, the commissioners approved just over $31,000 for new capital expenditures including $14,000 to replace the carpet in the new port district office. The board also agreed to pay the Wahkiakum Chamber of...
THURSDAY Walking Group, Community Center, Cathlamet, 9 a.m. Free Senior Fitness and Balance Class, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, enter via door on 3rd, 12:45-1:45 p.m. AA Meeting, The Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Grays River Fire Department, open meeting, 7 p.m. West End Food Pantry, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-5 p.m. Community Computer Center, GRVC at Johnson Park, 1-7 p.m. FRIDAY River City Strippers, St. Catherine Catholic Church, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. AA Meeting, Hope Center, 7 p.m. SATURDAY Com...
Public schools must adopt a “Statement of Student Rights,” that includes freedom of speech and religion, the right to assemble, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under legislation that has passed the Senate and is now in the House. Engrossed House Bill 1478, by Rep. Joe Timmons, D-Bellingham, passed the House with a 61-35 vote. “By having a consolidated statement of student rights that are available to students and by having that statement incorporated into civics education in K-12 schools, my hope is that this will...
Jack Leavitt, who graduated from Wahkiakum High School in 2017, and has been a longtime volunteer firefighter in the county, was recently voted by his peers to be Rookie of the Year for Cowlitz 2 Fire and Rescue. Leavitt began volunteering for the department in January of 2022. In September, he was hired as a part time firefighter/EMT. "He obviously made a strong impression on a number of the Cowlitz 2 as far as being here in his first year," Cowlitz 2 Fire Interim Chief James Graham said....
The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) has announced its final action approving Town of Cathlamet Shoreline Master Program (SMP) periodic review. The Town has conducted a periodic review of its SMP under RCW 90.58.080(4) and adopted Findings of Adequacy. Ecology concurs with the Town of Cathlamet and affirms all procedural steps in conducting the periodic review have been followed consistent with RCW 90.58.080(4) and WAC 173-26-090. On March 16, the department published a legal notice in The Wahkiakum County Eagle that started the...
Columbia River Kayaking celebrated 10 years with an open house on Saturday which included a Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting with Chamber President Shannon Britt, trivia and prizes, and a free paddle up Steamboat Slough. Photo by Diana Zimmerman....
What does one normally see on their walk to the mailbox along Puget Island's Welcome Slough, one can encounter a bald eagle enjoying a meal of fresh fish. Photo courtesy of Sarah Lawrence....
Members of the Cathlamet Town Council on Monday addressed two requests for utility bill relief, and approved plans for pickleball, Waterfront Park design changes, and boundary line changes between the Elochoman Slough Marina and the town's former sewage settling ponds. The utility bill requests generated much discussion, with council members stating town utility connection forms should clearly explain connection policies. In the first request, owners of the Rivermile 38 Brewery requested relief from the first two months of charges totalling $41...
Some Wahkiakum County employees may be able to work out in county-owned gym facilities later this year. The sheriff's office and health department have found grant funding for gym facilities which employees are excited to be able to use, department heads told the board of commissioners Tuesday. However, the grant funds target specific sets of employees, and not all county employees would be able to use the gyms. Commissioners on Tuesday authorized Health and Human Services to call for bids on...
The Wahkiakum County PUD Board of Commissioners got a visit from Washington PUD Association representatives on Tuesday and approved funding to replace a water main along SR 4 in Grays River. Dave McKenzie, a Skamania PUD Commissioner and the vice president of WPUDA, Liz Anderson, the Deputy Executive Director of WPUDA, and Stefany Zelapuza, a senior policy specialist for WPUDA talked about the history and purpose of the organization which provides training, commissioner education, and advocates...
For more than 40 years, Joe Baker worked as the theater manager for Green River College and director of a popular Heavier Than Air Family Theatre Company sponsored by the college. He loved his nightly walk through a little forested area from the college to his back yard, but as the years went by, the campus slowly creeped closer until his woodland view became three-story student housing. When Baker retired, he and his wife contemplated a move to a little town in eastern Washington, but when he...
THURSDAY Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments Board, 961 12th Ave, Longview, Noon. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, fire/ambulance, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Wahkiakum Planning Commission, Courthouse, 6 p.m. Wahkiakum Commissioners, Courthouse, 9:30 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Free Senior Fitness and Balance Class, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, enter via door on 3rd, 12:45-1:45 p.m. W...
By Diana Zimmerman The Wahkiakum County Port 1 Board of Commissioners talked about improvements at the Elochoman Slough Marina at their meeting last Tuesday and heard from a float plane enthusiast who would like to make Cathlamet his home base. Initially disheartened by a public response to his query in November, float plane owner Brian Fleming felt encouraged after some more recent and positive conversations with various people in Cathlamet and reiterated his desire to move his aircraft and...
Wahkiakum County should receive $1.7 million in revenue this year from harvest of timber on state managed trust lands, the Department of Natural Resources reported Tuesday. The estimate is a bit lower than the $1.8 million reported last October, said DNR Regional Manager Padraic Callahan. The revenue total will depend on the final volume of wood to come off a sale currently being logged, Callahan said, and the lower estimate reflects a conservative total that could increase depending on volume. Otherwise, Callahan said the DNR view of the timbe...
