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Established as The Skamokawa Eagle in 1891
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Little Island Creamery and the Wahkiakum Chamber of Commerce are honoring the 100th birthday of the Westport/Cathlamet ferry with a celebration on Saturday, June 21 from 3 to 5 p.m. at Little Island Creamery (448 E. Little Island Rd.). The celebration of this important connection honors the history and future of our unique community. The Washington State Tourism Department has granted nearly $16,000 for highway marker signs designed by a local artist. Business and individual sponsorships are being offered to support the celebration of the only...
Cathlamet resident Stefi Hallstrom owns Stoneriver Tattoo, Cathlamet's only tattoo shop, and has lived in town since 2022,. After moving here from Everett, Wash., to be with her boyfriend, Nick Sevald, Stefi was searching for community and found it at the fire station where she and Nick volunteer. "It takes a certain kind of person to be willing to fight fires, especially for no money," says Stefi, who describes that type of person as "empathetic and a little crazy." Stefi was recently voted as...
Douglas Heidland, acting as interim Postmaster since October 2024, has officially been appointed as the Postmaster of the Cathlamet Post Office. Cathlamet's Post Office was established on August 9, 1851 and previously located on Main street at the corner of the Cathlamet Hotel where Jabber Shack store is today. The first Postmaster of Cathlamet was James D. Birnie and Heidland is the 20th Postmaster appointed to one of the longest continuously operating post offices in the state of Washington....
NICE START/BIG CHANGE. As this past weekend began, it was pretty doggone nice, but as we all know, things can go from sunshine to soggy real quick around here, and well, as of this writing, that’s exactly the case. The sunshine is now “liquid sunshine” and is expected to last the week... let’s hope they’re wrong! I know spring showers bring spring flowers, but they also make some of my pretty flowers that have already bloomed turn to mush... ugh! Anyway, here’s to showers and no hard downpours. Maybe things will get a bit of drink and not dro...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time dedicated to increasing public understanding of mental health and reducing the stigmas associated with mental illness. This month also celebrates the importance of mental well-being and encourages individuals to seek help when they need it. Unfortunately, stigma surrounding mental health continues to cause discrimination and social isolation, leading many to feel ashamed and unworthy. In any given year, one in five American adults experiences some form of mental illness, and one in every 20 adults...
On Saturday evening, I attended the final performance of The Drowsy Chaperone, Jr., presented by the Naselle Drama Club. The Naselle School Commons was packed for closing night, with family, friends, students, and faculty coming out to enjoy the show. A total of 32 cast members took to the stage, delivering an engaging and creative production. The Drowsy Chaperone, Jr. is a story within a story. The nameless Man in the Chair, played by Arin Sabey, sits off to the side of the stage, listening to...
The Skamokawa Diking District invited the public to a meeting on Wednesday, May 7, at the Skamokawa Grange Hall. Restoration Coordination Manager from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Laura Brown presented attendees with a preliminary proposal for a fish habitat restoration project that involves breaching a dike and flooding 98 acres of privately owned land. In Skamokawa, a culvert collapsed inside resident Herman Migliore’s property. Though water is still moving through it, the tide gate has failed. The WDFW is p...
On May 7, the Committee to Retain Sheriff Mason hosted a meet and greet event at Rosburg Hall. Sponsored by committee members Nick and Dee Nikkila, the event drew a large crowd of Wahkiakum County residents eager to hear from Sheriff Mason about his bid for retention as sheriff. The evening began with Mark Howie introducing John Mason and sharing his service history with the Wahkiakum County Sheriff's Office. A key highlight of the introduction was how Mason began his journey in law enforcement. In 2013, he attended Sheriff Howie's first...
With in-person filing as a candidate for public office in Wahkiakum County beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday, May 5, the 2025 election season is now underway. Not long after, incumbent John Mason filed to continue to serve as the County Sheriff. In-person filing closed at 5 p.m. last Friday, May 9. A trained and experienced member of the Sheriff's office for the past 10 plus years, Mason, with the recommendation of then Sheriff Mark Howie, was appointed by the Board of County Commissioners in 2024...
Grays River is a well-known waterway to Wahkiakum locals. It twists around farmland and flows through timberland in the western part of the county before meeting the Columbia River at Grays Bay. The upper Grays River watershed is surrounded by 95 percent timberland and has recently been the focus of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe's Habitat Restoration and Conservation Project efforts. The Tribe has been working to "restore complexity and biophysical connectivity" in the Grays Watershed, according to p...
Sunlight spacing for vegetables Row direction and row spacing are common topics of conversation among vegetable gardeners. If slopes aren’t a consideration, vegetable rows that run north and south will give more even light exposure and thus more even leaf growth with greens and better fruit ripening with tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. Pepper plants need at least 12 inches “in row” spacing with rows about two feet apart. Tomatoes need three feet in row spacing if trellised and more if they will spread out on the ground. Tomato rows shoul...
The Eagle is partnering with the Wahkiakum Noxious Weed Control board to bring you this message. Japanese Knotweed, as its name implies, is native to Asia. It is a Class B weed that is not known to be toxic and is a very aggressive escaped ornamental that can form dense stands, crowding out all other vegetation and degrading wildlife habitat. Japanese Knotweed can also create a fire hazard in the dormant season. It is difficult to control once established. This weed is a perennial species with s...
Gwen Larson is an amazing music, piano, and choir teacher at Piercing Arrow Private School. She was born and raised in Portland,,Ore. Gwen started in the church choir at Central Lutheran Church when she was 5 years old. When she was 9 and a half, she started learning piano along with the pipe organ..Gwen felt very privileged to be able to have an organ at her house. "At 9 and a half, I knew what I would do for the rest of my life," she said. Gwen loved music and everything included in it. She started teaching private piano lessons in her home...
Clatskanie High School is one of 21 high schools and five middle schools in the state receiving recognition as a high achieving leadership program. Clatskanie High School was awarded with a Gold Council Award at the OASC Spring Leadership Conference this April 27, 2025. The award, sponsored by the Oregon Association of Student Councils (OASC), sets high standards for student councils and leadership programs and honors them if they can reach or exceed these goals. The leadership programs begin by setting goals in the fall and actively...
On West 7th St. near the boat ramp sits a large, beige building, unassuming from the outside, but a bustling heartbeat of the community inside. Long referred to as the Rainier Senior Center, the building itself was recently renamed the Rainier Riverfront Center, in part to attract a wider audience and expand the usage of the space beyond senior programming and into a community center in the off-hours "It is for seniors but it includes everybody," said Rainier Senior Center Executive Director Jan Rich. "We have grandkids here, we have...
Jeremy and Monika Medhaug have big plans for the Rainier-based Grocery Outlet, and they have the track record to bring their big vision to life, as the two have a combined 60 years of business experience between them. The Medhaugs have been working together as a business team for more than two decades, overseeing three pharmacies at national brands such as Sav-On and Walgreens. While Jeremy was working his way up the corporate ladder at the beginning of his career at Costco in Las Vegas, Nev.,...
Columbia County residents have until 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20 to vote on Measure 5-304 regarding the renewal of the Columbia County Jail levy. Lobbying for a “yes” vote on the measure, Columbia County Sheriff Brian Pixley said, “What it comes down to - the nuts and bolts - is my budget is $9.5 million for the jail. Out of that, we get $1 million from the County General Funds. This year, we’re slated to get about $3.9 through the US Marshals, and then we get about $3.9 million from the levy. Without the levy renewal, I’m going to have a $3...
If you have ever spotted those massive leafy greens unfurling like umbrellas over crimson stalks in a backyard garden, you have likely seen rhubarb. In Washington State, rhubarb is not just a springtime staple; it's a legacy crop with roots that stretch back generations, thriving in the cool, moist climate that makes our region one of the nation's top producers. According to the article Farm Facts, Washington State leads the nation in rhubarb production, accounting for nearly 90% of the U.S. commercial rhubarb crop. Most of that is grown in...
One self-service library, high school, and grocery store serve the 519 people of Naselle, Washington. The piles of felled logs along the roadsides dwarf the passing cars, signaling to drivers that this town was built on logging. Many Naselle residents have family roots in the forestry sector, allowing them to be intimately familiar with its demands. They also do not often push back on timber harvests that pose no threat to endangered species or their habitats. But an upcoming harvest will fell trees surrounding one of two creeks that supply...
The Wonders of Garage Sale Gear I know it's early, but in honor of that most monumental event, the annual Puget Island Garage (and) Yard Sale, or PIGYS, which will be held June 27 – 29 and, owing to the fact it is indeed and has been for some time, garage sale season, I write this week on the finer points of what I call 'garage sale etiquette.' But garage sales and the outdoors? Garage sales can be great places to find outdoor gear at ridiculously low prices; however, not every $2 sleeping b...
According to a press release from Senator Jeff Wilson, R-Longview, a bill creating a testing program to measure forever-chemical contamination in Washington’s food supply heads the list of wins for Wilson in “an otherwise-discouraging 2025 legislative session” that ended Sunday, April 27. The release stated, “Despite passage of the largest tax increase in Washington history and legislation designed to force liberal urban perspectives on the entire state, Wilson was able to score a number of successes for the 19th Legislative District. Over th...
For years, there have been discussions, suggestions, and conversations regarding a potential consolidation of the Town of Cathlamet’s (TOC) water system with the Wahkiakum PUD (Public Utilities District) that have been shrouded in confusion, complicated, hard-to-interpret financial reports, and rampant outpourings of misinformation. The Washington Department of Health approached the Wahkiakum PUD in August 2023 to consider consolidating the TOC and PUD water systems. A consolidation study was conducted through a DOH Consolidation Grant Fund. Gr...
Following former Councilmember Kermit Chamberlin's resignation on April 21, the Town of Cathlamet put out an ad to fill the vacancy for Position No. 2. Going into Monday evening's session, only two applicants had filed. With the meeting's agenda calling for an executive session to review the applicants and, eventually, the appointment of one of those applicants, Councilmember Jeanne Hendrickson voiced her concern over coming to a decision so quickly. "I just feel that with the weight of what the town is dealing with right now, as a...
