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  • Trump names Joe Kent to lead counterterrorism agency

    Jerry Cornfield, States Newsroom|Feb 6, 2025

    Congressional candidate Joe Kent debates the issues with U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez at KATU studios in Portland on Monday night, Oct. 7, 2024. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Joe Kent, a former Army Special Forces soldier and two-time Republican candidate for a congressional seat in southwest Washington, to be director of the National Counterterrorism Center. “As a soldier, Green Beret, and CIA officer, Joe has hunted down terrorists and criminals his entire adult life,” Trump wrote on X. “Joe will...

  • Town Council report

    Megan Blackburn Friend|Feb 6, 2025

    The Town Council met Monday to discuss a range of topics including financial matters and potential utility consolidation. The meeting began with the approval of the agenda, omitting an executive session based on legal advice. The council addressed public inquiries about water line responsibilities, clarifying that while the town installs lines from the main to the meter, customers bear associated labor costs. In financial matters, the council unanimously approved an ordinance adjusting employee salaries in the 2025 budget to align with the...

  • Marie Gluesenkamp Perez visits Cathlamet

    Jennifer Figueroa|Feb 6, 2025

    Washington District Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez visited Wahkiakum County on January 29 to meet with PUD leaders and be updated on the progress of the Puget Island well-drilling, which went underway in December 2024. Drilling this well is among the PUD’s final steps in meeting requirements for a Washington State Department of Health-approved Water System Plan for the Puget Island Water System. Congresswoman Gluesenkamp Perez helped to secure funding for the project through her C...

  • Wahkiakum PUD report

    Jennifer Figueroa|Feb 6, 2025

    The Wahkiakum PUD Commissioners held their regularly scheduled meeting on Feb. 4 where they discussed the recently submitted PUD/Town of Cathlamet consolidation study submitted by Grant and Osborne. Commissioner Gene Healy suggested scheduling a workshop where the three commissioners could reassess both the positive and negative implications, address any misinformation that has been circling, and answer the public’s questions. “Put notes on the whiteboard, everybody participates, and we have a workshop that allows the public and anybody els...

  • St. James Family Center 40 for 40 fundraiser

    Feb 6, 2025

    9 marks 40 years since the St. James Family Center began serving the Wahkiakum County community. To celebrate four decades of enhancing the lives of those in our community, we are excited to invite you to the official launch of our upcoming fundraising campaign: 40 for 40. Our goal is to raise $40,000 to honor this significant milestone by encouraging donations throughout the year and inviting contributions in increments of $40, according to what suits each donor. With federal and state funding becoming less certain, we need to strengthen...

  • Westside Stories

    Lisa Yeager|Feb 6, 2025

    The Dress a Girl Around the World program is proudly entering its seventh year in Wahkiakum County, bringing joy and hope to countless girls in need. Leading this impactful mission is Rosburg resident Pearl Blackburn, who serves as the Ambassador for Oregon and Washington. In 2024, an inspiring total of 1,628 dresses, along with 117 pairs of boy shorts and an abundance of T-shirts, fabric bags, underwear, pocket toys, and stuffed animals were joyfully distributed across the globe. Through the...

  • The Eagle outdoors: February 7-14

    M.D. Johnson|Feb 6, 2025

    Ah, smelt. Despite the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (WDFW) best intentions to provide us with smelt dipping opportunities, the first two days were not approved. Fishery managers evaluate weekly commercial test fishery landings, or catch reports, to determine if the smelt run size is large enough to support a recreational harvest. This week’s catch reports did not provide enough information to confirm whether the run is large enough to open a recreational fishery in the Cowlitz Ri...

  • Planning for pollinators: preparing for spring during six more weeks of winter

    Jamie J. Brown|Feb 6, 2025

    As the groundhog predicts six more weeks of winter, gardeners eagerly await spring but can use this time wisely to plan and prepare for a pollinator-friendly landscape. Pollinators such as bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and other beneficial insects play a crucial role in the health of our gardens and food systems. Thoughtful planning now ensures a vibrant, pollinator-rich garden when the weather warms. Selecting the right plants begins now to integrate into plans and sketches the dedicated gardener is inevitably scratching out on these cold...

  • Skamokawa News

    Kay Chamberlain|Feb 6, 2025

    WHITE WORLD! As I begin this column on the first Sunday in February, it is a white world in West Valley in good old Skamokawa! It was like a blizzard for a time, with huge white flakes. The biggest I’d ever seen, and then they changed into a bunch of tiny flakes; blowing all around our house like a whirlwind, wild! I must say that I did enjoy the sunshine break that came shortly after, as I was afraid we would wind up with feet of snow if the snowy sessions continued much longer. At any rate, for those of you who are snow lovers, I hope you’re...

  • Sheriff's Corner

    Sheriff John Mason|Feb 6, 2025

    Hello from your Sheriff! I hope everyone is having a good start to 2025. So far, I have seen a lot of participation from the community in local events, programs, and outreach, and I thank all involved for making the most of what our beautiful county has to offer each other. I encourage anyone who has thought about volunteering in service to Wahkiakum County to do so, whether that be in the Fire Departments, community projects such as the Youth Mentoring Program, or helping with the variety of great public events! Scams continue to plague the...

  • The long walkers

    Tiffany Stewart|Jan 30, 2025
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    We’ve all heard the saying, “Change is hard!” Surely, that is why so many of us make New Year’s resolutions only to forget about them after a few short weeks into January. The self-discipline necessary to make changes in our lives to improve add and subtract from our lives to improve is much harder than simply writing resolutions on a piece of paper! Instead, we find ourselves waving a white flag of surrender, retreating to our comfort zones for another year. That is not the case for a handful...

  • Record crab price, lower volume: Commercial crabbing commences amid steep competition

    Luke Whittake Chinook Observer|Jan 30, 2025

    The 2025 Washington commercial crab season is officially in full swing, with several local crabbers delivering their first offloads of the season on Thursday, Jan. 16, at local ports along the Long Beach Peninsula.”There are a lot of jumbos, nice and hard two-pounders. It’s a very good product.” reported Florian Mumford, captain of the F/V Vengeance. Fishermen reported strong currents and steep competition among the opening-day hurdles, leading to lower-than-normal catch volumes. However, the $5.75 opening record price from processors has b...

  • Who are these people?

    The Wahkiakum County Historical Society|Jan 30, 2025

    Please help! The Wahkiakum County Historical museum would like help identifying the people in this photo. Museum staff noticed that some of the women in the photograph were wearing pants which was unusual for this era of photography. Email wahkiakumhistory@gmail.com....

  • Cathlamet Public Library: New Library Trustee

    Dan Turner|Jan 30, 2025

    Did you know there is Board of Trustees which oversees and governs the Cathlamet Public Library? And as you know, the library serves all of Wahkiakum County. Anyone in our county can get a library card for free. Well, I’m one of the library trustees, and a recent one at that. And I thought, “Hey, if we are a library for the whole county, we should have voices from the whole county on the board.” I knew about the Johnson Park Library but had never stopped by to check it out, so a few weeks ago I stopped in and met Carillon Nicol who is the l...

  • Advocates improve student health through peer influence

    Jen Milliren|Jan 30, 2025

    At the Board of County Commissioners meeting this month, Wahkiakum County Health & Human Services (WCHHS) staff presented the Community Health Advocate program. This partnership between WCHHS and the Wahkiakum High School is over a decade long and has been helping students make better choices for their health. In Wahkiakum County, Community Health Advocates are students themselves - freshmen through seniors. They are employed by the County and paid for time in and out of the school to learn and educate their peers on a variety of health...

  • Senior Friendship Group potluck

    Nancy Nelson|Jan 30, 2025

    The Senior Friendship Group started as a Facebook Page to allow Wahkiakum seniors to make connections and new friends. Some seniors have mobility issues and have difficulty getting out and about, and this group gave them an online space to meet, chat, answer daily questions, and share photos. Soon, Pastor Jeff at the Lutheran Church offered the basement of the church as a place for the group members to meet in person. There is now a monthly potluck, and weekly meetings of groups with various...

  • Westside Stories

    Lisa Yeager|Jan 30, 2025

    I dropped in briefly at Rosburg Hall on Saturday evening to take some pictures at the American Legion’s annual Crab and Oyster Feed dinner at Rosburg Hall. The hall was packed with hungry patrons. Nick Nikkila reported to me there were 199 paid attendees. Fifty items were raffled off, including a Benjamin Marauder high pressure .22 caliber air rifle, the booze wagon, and a cord of firewood exclusively for seniors, won by Sonja Kruse for the second time. There was also an auction that featured it...

  • Naselle Grays-River Valley School Board Meeting

    Lisa Yeager|Jan 30, 2025

    The Naselle-Grays River Valley School Board met for their monthly meeting on Jan. 21. During Public Comment, Luke Gardner expressed his desires regarding the selection of a new superintendent stating, “Please choose wisely with a new administrator lead. Please look for someone with good communication skills. Please find one who will be truthful and transparent, and can communicate.” Roman Garcia, an eighth grader, bravely addressed the school board with his request. He said, “Today I am coming before the school board to ask that myself and a...

  • The Eagle Outdoors

    M.D. Johnson|Jan 30, 2025

    The big news, if you haven’t already read the news release from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for February 2025, is the implementation by the agency of some brand new regulations surrounding the traditional smelt fishery on the Cowlitz River. Biologists determined that populations of Columbia River smelt, or eulachon as they’re technically known, began to decline in the mid-1990s. In 2001, the Washington-Oregon Eulachon Management Plan was drafted; nine years later in 2010, Col...

  • OPEN CALL FOR ARTWORK

    Jan 30, 2025

    Columbia Artist Association-SW Washington, announces an open call to artists in Cowlitz, Clark, Wahkiakum, Lewis, Pacific, Clatsop, and Columbia counties for our 2025 Spring Show. Artwork in oils, acrylics, watercolor, mixed mediums along with 3-D creations will be featured at the juried showing, March 22 – April 12, 2025, held at the Cowlitz County Historical Museum in Kelso, WA. Artists need not be a CAA member to enter. Items to be entered into the show will be received on Tuesday, March 18, from 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. For more information a...

  • Skamokawa News

    Kay Chamberlain|Jan 30, 2025

    COLD ENOUGH? Well, as I begin this column, it is dropping in the lower twenties, and I must tell you, I’m not a fan of that kind of cold... brr! As a matter of fact, it dropped 20 degrees in only 90 minutes here in West Valley earlier. The decent temperatures we saw earlier in the day were gone in a flash as the temperatures plummeted. From the sound of it, many folks were having plumbing problems, which I’m guessing were related to the extreme cold and resulted in frozen and broken pipes. I do hope you’re all doing better in that regard by no...

  • Ferguson proposes $4 billion in cuts to ease budget deficit

    Juan Jocorn, Washington State Journal|Jan 23, 2025

    Gov.-elect Bob Ferguson unveiled a budget-cutting plan to ease a projected $12 billion statewide budget deficit during a 2025 legislative preview in Olympia Jan. 9. “Washingtonians expect that we will increase revenue as a last resort. I will not contemplate additional revenue options until we have exhausted efforts to improve efficiency,” Ferguson said. Estimates of the deficit vary widely, from $7 billion to $15 billion. To make up the deficit, Ferguson proposes cutting spending by 6% budget a...

  • Letter Written by Betty Hansen Explains Road Need

    Mrs. J. Grant Elliott|Jan 23, 2025

    We have read your letters in the Grays River Builder, acknowledging the letters written by Mr. Meserve, and have enjoyed them immensely, so I thought I would write to you and tell you about the conditions in these vicinities. Like you folks, we are also strong and settled in two small communities (Frankfort and Sisson Creek), which are situated along the north shore of the Columbia River. Some of the settlers have made their homes here for the past fifty years; buying lots, erecting beautiful...

  • Westside Stories

    Lisa Yeager|Jan 23, 2025

    Charlie the Champion Naselle residents Nate and Holly Engleson have been integral in our community for a long time. Nate is a key volunteer in the Naselle Fire Department, and Holly has spent countless hours putting on events like the Halloween Bash at the Naselle Community Center and the Easter egg hunts for the kids. They are also very involved at Naselle School, where their four kids attend. I chose to write a spotlight on them after the heartwarming homecoming they received this past week fr...

  • Cathlamet Public Library

    Dan Turner|Jan 23, 2025

    “Free? Did you say free?” Yes, if you’re a Wahkiakum County resident you can check out physical books for free at the Cathlamet Public Library. But that’s not all! You can also check out eBooks, emagazines and audio books for free! It doesn’t matter if you live in Skamokawa, Cathlamet, Svendsen’s Landing, Rosburg, Upper or Lower Elochoman, Altoona, Grays River, Flandersville, Eagle Cliff, Deep River, Waterford, Oneida, Puget Island, Eden Valley, Cape Horn or any other locale in Wahkiakum County. You can come into the library or go online and...

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