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Washington fish and wildlife officials have declined a request from conservation groups to tighten restrictions around when wolves that attack livestock can be killed. A petition the groups filed in September with the state Fish and Wildlife Commission described Washington's system for dealing with wolf-livestock conflicts as "ineffective." It asked the panel to reopen rulemaking in order to put in place stricter protocols for when the state or ranchers are allowed to kill wolves. The commission on Saturday voted 6-3 against that request....
Last week, the Eagle published a story by Karen Bertroch (“Change is coming to the school board”) that should have been marked as an opinion piece, with a disclaimer that the opinions were the author’s, not the publisher’s. As a small newspaper, we sometimes rely on our writers to offer a variety of stories. Though Karen Bertroch mainly reports on community events in Naselle and the Westend, from time to time she offers commentary on local politics, as she did last week. The publishers regret any confusion arising from our mistake...
Jennifer Goodenberger was begging for piano lessons before her feet reached the floor. Six years old, and born to a music-loving family, Jennifer knew she had to play. "My parents both loved music, so it was always around," she said. Her family had a rule: everyone took piano lessons for two years, beginning at age nine, and then, if they wanted, they could switch to a different instrument. Not only did Jennifer come to piano three years earlier than the family tradition dictated, but she stuck...
THURSDAY Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Eastside play and learn group, St James family center 1:30-3 p.m. West End Food Pantry, Johnson Park, 1- 5 p.m. Johnson Park Community Center Library & Computer Center 12-5 p.m. Cathlamet Fire Department, 7 p.m. Skamokawa Fire Department, 7 p.m. Grays River Fire Department, 7:30 p.m. Puget Island Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Hope Center, Noon. Senior Citizen Luncheon, Rosburg Hall, Noon. Food Addicts Meeting, Hope...
A photo taken out of focus is forever destined to remain out of focus. It may tell a story, but is more likely to end up filed under trash than in the newspaper. Fortunately, that doesn't have to hold true for the subject. Our understanding of people comes in sharper and clearer when they feel safe enough or brave enough to share the hidden details of their lives. How lucky we are when that happens. In 2019, Macie Elliott, a Wahkiakum High School senior, forced a Fisherman turnover during the...
Patty Cakes Cafe & Roasting has new owners but the product and menu created by the original proprietor Patty Vezaldanos will remain unchanged, Kwan and Ross Lofstrom said. "It's a famous brand in the community and people love it," Ross said. "We want to keep the food the same, the coffee, the business." "We're going to add more flavor in the future," Kwan said. More flavor indeed! Plans are in the works to stay open later, incorporating entrees from Kwan's native Thailand for dinner three or...
Washington State Sen. Jeff Wilson was arrested in Hong Kong on Saturday, after airport security discovered an unlicensed gun in his luggage, according to a newspaper account. Through his spokesman, Wilson said the alleged offense was "an honest mistake." Wilson, a prominent local Republican, businessman, community booster and leader of the GOP's conservative wing, was taken into custody after a security screener spotted the gun, according to the Hong Kong-based publication The Standard and...
Residents living in the District 4 Fire Department’s coverage area will have an opportunity to vote on a proposed levy increase this November when they receive their ballots, but prior to that, they are invited to attend an open house to learn more about the matter and see where their tax dollars go. Randy Hoven, the Fire Chief for District 4, said that the department’s most recent 10 year bond expired at the end of last year, and now they are hoping to add another $25,000 to their current bud...
The Town of Cathlamet continued to parse out details of the waterfront park design with engineers during a workshop last Monday. “At the last workshop we decided to move forward with a design that did not fill in the lagoons completely because of cost issues, but instead would provide an elevated pad on the westerly side adjacent to the westerly dike, for a picnic shelter,” Mike Johnson, an engineer with Gray and Osborne said. “We’ve further refined that concept in this updated site plan....
12 million registered voters in Washington State, including over 3,000 in Wahkiakum County, can now vote in the 2023 General Election. The 18-day voting period began October 20. Ballots must be returned to a county drop box or voting center by 8 p.m. Nov. 7, or postmarked by Nov. 7 if mailed in, to be accepted. All 39 counties have races on the ballot in this election, with 3,095 offices up for election and 128 local measures to be decided. Secretary of State Steve Hobbs encourages all voters to use the state’s comprehensive system of resource...
In last week’s Eagle, we incorrectly reported that the new electric vehicle (EV) charger on Butler Street is a “Level 1” charger. It is, in fact, a Level 3 charger, providing 50 kilowatts of power, and is capable of charging a small EV (40 kWh battery) in 32 minutes, a medium EV (65 kWh battery) in 52 minutes, and a large EV (90 kWh battery) in 1 hour, 12 minutes....
Looking at a map of Washington, the southwest corner is easy to overlook. For history buffs, it is an intriguing study because of the Indians, the immigrants, and the land itself. Irene Martin knows our history in an intimate way. She has researched, interviewed, traveled and recorded more than most of us will ever understand. Her 1997 book, “Beach of Heaven,” deserves to be on every bookshelf in every house in Wahkiakum County. It is a textbook all our students should be required to read. It is about more than our area or even our region; it...
THURSDAY 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, fire/ambulance, 7:30 p.m. Puget Island Fire Department, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Food Addicts Meeting, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 6-7 p.m. Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Eastside play and learn group, St James family center 1:30-3 p.m. West End Food Pantry, Johnson Park, 1- 5 p.m. Community...
In recent years, our national political culture has moved into a state of mistrust. And over the past months, it has become clear that even in our small school district, board meetings reflect mistrust. At the last meeting of the Naselle Grays River Valley School District on October 17, during public comment, it was again time to complain, insult, and berate the Board and the Superintendent. Adam Rose: “There is a lack of transparency, a dictatorship. During covid students were told not to protest. Coercion. Then redacted documents. Only t...
When I first arrived, I wasn’t sure if I was in the right place. I had expected a blinking neon sign flashing GYROS! GYROS! But the building my maps app had directed me to was a simple, nondescript brick mixed-use commercial building in downtown Longview. There was no one else parked nearby. I decided to look around. No sign. No one walking by. My uncertainty grew. Then, perched ominously behind the tempered glass double doors opening onto the intersection, I saw a lanky individual, shrouded in a black cloak, and sporting a plague doctor’s mas...
Those advising state lawmakers on ways to ensure Washington’s government operates transparently have grown pretty frustrated with the lack of interest in their advice. It reached the point earlier this year when the Public Records Exemptions Accountability Committee considered asking lawmakers to disband the advisory panel, concerned it had become, in one member’s words, a “perpetual task force that goes nowhere.” At a meeting Tuesday, members, still frustrated, agreed to make another run at getting lawmakers to heed the work they do. The panel...
Little Island Creamery hosted a community apple pressing and harvest event Sunday. Activities included face painting, tours of the creamery, folk music performed Donny Wages & Ian Brandon, carnival games, and wood-fire pizza. Photo courtesy of Little Island Creamery. Bring your own apples! Residents from around the county visited Little Island Creamery Sunday for an autumn harvest event. A neighbor brought an antique apple press, that was used to squeeze fresh cider....
Senior princess Lana Goff, left, admires Senior King Zakk Carlson and Senior Queen Amirah Abdul-Kariem at Friday's Wahkiakum High School homecoming game. The Mules outmaneuvered the North Beach Hyaks from the get go, winning 58-18....
The Pioneer Community Association will open the doors of the Cathlamet Pioneer Center, ushering in a new era for Cathlamet’s Pioneer Church as a public meeting venue and arts and performance center. A dedication is in the works for early November, and will honor the last 50 years of fundraising and rehabilitation. According to the President of the PCA, Suzanne Holmes, in 1973, the structure became the first and only building in Cathlamet to join the list of National Register of Historic P...
Former congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler entered the race for Washington's Commissioner of Public Lands on Tuesday, giving Republicans a top-flight candidate in what's shaping up as one of next year's hottest electoral contests. Herrera Beutler, whose decision had been the subject of speculation for months, said she would focus on reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfires, while working to preserve forest habitat and access to recreational areas. She said in an interview she would rely on gu...
U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat whose unexpected win in 2022 flipped a Republican-held seat in southwest Washington, has amassed $2.1 million for a re-election bid next year, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Gluesenkamp Perez hauled in $600,000 in the three-month period ending Sept. 30, outpacing Joe Kent and Leslie Lewallen, the two leading Republicans vying to challenge her next year. Kent, who Gluesenkamp Perez defeated by 2,629 votes in southwest Washi...
The Wahkiakum County PUD is awaiting grant funding, and continuing to seek more, in an effort to make more improvements to infrastructure around the county, as well as the security in their own office. They were just awarded a grant from the Department of Health to study the feasibility of a consolidation of the Cathlamet and PUD water systems, or, in other words, what it would mean for the PUD to acquire the town’s water and wastewater systems and customers. “Truly this is to address and mit...
The Wahkiakum County Commissioners have formally asked the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a study to address flooding in Rosburg and Grays River drainages. The Eagle has detailed the effects of flooding in the Westend in numerous articles. The commissioners today asked the Army Corp to conduct a study to "assess the proximate and ultimate causes of fine sediment deposition and to determine short and long term solutions to remove fines collecting near the mouth of the Grays which contribute to the increased flood risk to communities..." The...
THURSDAY 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, fire/ambulance, 7:30 p.m. Puget Island Fire Department, drill night, 7 p.m. District No. 4 Fire Department, 7 p.m. Food Addicts Meeting, Hope Center, 3rd & Maple, Cathlamet, 6-7 p.m. Westside Play & Learn Group, Valley Bible Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Eastside play and learn group, St James family center 1:30-3 p.m. West End Food Pantry, Johnson Park, 1- 5 p....
Wahkiakum County Port 2 Manager Sam Shogren is busy. While continuing to work on the port’s comprehensive plan, he’s been talking to everyone he can, in an effort to seek funding to make improvements to the port property, and as he said, “create economic opportunity in the county.” This includes visits with staff from Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s office, representatives from Patty Murray’s office, as well as State Representative Joel McEntire, and State Senator Jeff Wilson. He represented the local...
