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Bigfoot Boogie at Grange Hall Saturday
SPRING IS HERE--According to the calendar, we are now officially done with winter and as of this past Monday, spring is here! There’s just one little issue that we may have however, as forecasters have said by the time you read this, we will be...
Downriver Dispatches
Congratulations to Diane Hollenbeck for being named the Woman's Club Citizen of the Year. Diane, you are a wonder to your friends here in Grays River/Rosburg. You show up to help and you do it...
Poetry and Pie kick off writing festival at Clatskanie Library
Poetry and Pie at the Clatskanie Library will launch the 2023 Raymond Carver Writing Festival (RCWF) Poetry Contest on Tuesday, April 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. Pie was known to be Carver’s favorite dessert. The poetry contest is open to to youth living...
Catch the last ferry
A Wahkiakum Outdoors presentation by Jim Aalberg on the history of the last ferry still operating on the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington will be held Saturday, March 25 at the Hope Center (320 S 3rd St.) at 2 p.m. Hear about the...
Puget Island Gardens opens
Gene O'Neil, owner of Puget Island Gardens, is ready to welcome customers. Photo by Ian Brandon....
WSU Extension On-line Workshop: Pasture Weed Control and Grazing Management
This free class will be held April 4, 6-8 p.m. and will discuss how to maximize grass production by using grazing management and weed control techniques. Topics include grazing management, how to maximize grass quality, weed control and types of...
Annual North Coast Writer's Residency announced
The Writer’s Guild of Astoria and Astoria Visual Arts have announced the 2023 North Coast Writer’s Residency. Now in its fifth year, this jointly sponsored residency affords both established and emerging writers the time, space, and solitude...
Extension speaker addressing suicide prevention
On Wednesday, Debbie Fredricks will be in Cathlamet to talk about two programs offered by the WSU Extension Office Fredricks, who was happily retired with 11 grandkids, got pulled back into professional life when she was offered a paycheck to do...
Washington state will need more than 1 million homes in next 20 years
More than half of the homes are needed for residents at the lowest income levels The Washington State Department of Commerce recently released its final housing needs projections, which show the state needs to add 1.1 million homes over the next 20 y...
Pacific County receives wildfire defense grant
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on March 20 announced $197 million in funding for the federal Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG) program -- more than $25 million of which will come to the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for 14...
Song Circle is at the Grange Hall on Sunday
WET BEGINNING--It’s a tadbit soggy out there as I begin this column as one of our atmospheric rivers is making itself known. Of course, if you’ve been here awhile, it’s just known as a typical rainy stretch of weather and it’s not anything...
Downriver Dispatches
Photo of the week: Theo Burkhalter spent time with me last Saturday so I could interview him in depth about his life, his adoption process, and the Washington State School for the Blind in Vancouver w...
Clatskanie's Raymond Carver Writing Festival begins with April poetry contest
The revived Raymond Carver Writing Festival (RCWF) is back for its second year with an emphasis on poetry. Located in Clatskanie, Oregon where the world-famous poet and short story writer Raymond Carver (1938-1988) was born, the two-day festival,...
WSU Master Gardener On-line Workshops: March
On Tuesdays at noon WSU Master Gardeners present weekly on-line free programs. No need to register, just pop in. Connection information (you must have a Zoom account--sign up for one at zoom.us), then join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android:...
Wahkiakum Outdoors' educational presentation set for April 1
Wahkiakum Outdoors will host an educational presentation, “Wings over the Long Beach Peninsula” on Saturday, April 1 at 2 p.m., with Madeline Kalbach, Ph.D. Southwest Washington (especially the Long Beach Peninsula area) has long been a...
Tax forms available at library
According to information received from Carol Blix, Librarian, Cathlamet Public Library now has 1040 and 1040-SR tax forms for 2022 taxes, and instruction booklets available....
Fibre Federal Credit Union shares 2022 community impact
Fibre Federal Credit Union serves 11 counties in Washington and Oregon with financial services and community support projects. In 2022, the credit union continued its mission to strengthen and improve the communities it serves through partnerships,...
March tentative coastal razor clam digs at Mocrocks and Copalis beaches announced
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) shellfish managers have tentatively scheduled additional razor clam digging dates at Mocrocks and Copalis beaches in March. "After reopening harvest on Copalis and Mocrocks since late January, we are...
Island life
Pampas grass shines in the sunlight of a late winter afternoon. Photo by Rick Nelson....
What's happening at the Fair?
Greetings from the fair office! Wow it’s time for the Flea Market again; March 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. We still have a couple tables available if anyone is interested. Call the office (360)795-3480. Also we will have the sale open in the...
Downriver Dispatches
March is raining by. It's sure strange to have snow and hail and rain and wind, oh but wait...it's still winter, isn't it? Did lots of reading in past couple weeks. First a fairly new biography of Jul...
New small business education training offered
The Cowlitz Wahkiakum Council of Governments working in conjunction with the Cowlitz Economic Development Council and Lower Columbia College, is offering three new education workshops for businesses. These workshops are designed to provide...
Students with disabilities invited to apply for Youth Leadership Forum
High school students with disabilities can apply to the 21st annual Youth Leadership Forum to learn leadership, citizenship and personal skills. About 30 students will attend this free overnight camp, which will be at the Dumas Bay Center in Federal...
Wahkiakum Outdoors' educational event: Catching the Last Ferry
How long has there been a ferry crossing from Puget Island? Come by the Hope Center, 320 S 3rd St. in Cathlamet, at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 25 to hear Speaker Jim Aalberg, past director of Oregon Historical Society, explain the history of the...
