Aberdeen fire guts vacant building
A fire in Aberdeen this morning gutted the upstairs apartment and flooded the downstairs of a vacant building. Fire Chief Tom Hubbard said that they were called to the corner of Market and Michigan...
View ArticleEleven Grays Harbor County School Levies passing, One tied, in preliminary...
Voters are supporting replacement maintenance and operations levies in 11 of 12 of Grays Harbor County School districts. While voters in Oakville are on the bubble in that multi-county race, with 162...
View ArticleComments Sought on Proposed Improvements to Log Cabin Resort in Olympic...
The National Park Service has released an environmental assessment (EA) on proposed improvements to facilities at Log Cabin Resort, a concession-operated resort on the north shore of Lake Crescent....
View ArticleOakville Levy still failing as election results will be certified today
With the next batch of ballots tabulated at the Grays Harbor County Elections Office, one more vote was counted in support of Oakville’s replacement M&O Levy, getting back to a multi-county tie for...
View ArticleGrays Harbor College seeks public input on Nursing Degree Program
As part of the Nursing Department’s accreditation process, Grays Harbor College must solicit public comment. Grays Harbor College will host a site review for the continuing accreditation of its...
View ArticleHoquiam seeks input on Downtown Local Historic District
The City of Hoquiam’s Historic Preservation Commission is holding a public meeting/public workshop to discuss the drafting of development guidelines for the Downtown Local Historic District and other...
View ArticleCorps of Engineers to start Grays Harbor maintenance dredging April 1
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will begin annual Grays Harbor maintenance dredging in the Outer Harbor April 1, 2016. Seattle-based Manson Construction Co., is contracted to dredge one and a quarter...
View ArticleElma High School to host Varsity football games with help of bleacher purchase
After a failed levy attempt to rebuild bleachers for Elma High School home football games in November of last year, the district plans to host home games again. District Superintendent Kevin Acuff said...
View ArticleCrews reopen both lanes of US Highway 12 at slide site east of Elma
Motorists traveling along US 12 east of Elma will be pleased to hear that on Monday, Washington State Department of Transportation maintenance crews reopened both lanes of the highway in the Porter...
View ArticleBrandi Bednarik Appointed Executive Director of Grays Harbor Historical...
The Grays Harbor Historical Seaport Authority Board of Directors has appointed Brandi Bednarik as the organization’s new executive director. The board made the decision at a special meeting on Friday....
View ArticleArrest Made After Shelton Fire Claims Nuisance Building
An arrest has been made during the investigation of a fire in Shelton, the Shelton Police Department said in a press release that on 5/21/2016 just after midnight the Mason County Communications Center...
View ArticleHoquiam Hit and Run Suspect Arrested in Aberdeen
On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 1627 hours, Hoquiam Police and Fire were dispatched to a vehicle versus bicyclist collision in the 500 block of Levee Street, which is at the west end of the Riverside Bridge...
View ArticleGrays Harbor Practitioners Among Those Disciplined by Department of Health
The Washington State Department of Health has taken disciplinary actions or withdrawn charges against health care providers in our state. The department’s Health Systems Quality Assurance Division...
View ArticleCity of Hoquiam Asking Residents for Input (Hometown Hoquiam web-point-oh)
The City of Hoquiam is seeking public input through a survey on their website. Mayor Jasmine Dickhoff says they’re hoping to gauge public interest on several topics. The survey asks if you live and...
View ArticleKaty Perry Officially Cracks 90 Million Twitter Followers
ABC/Fred LeeKaty Perry continues to reign the Twitterverse. The singer has reached an unprecedented 90 million followers on the social networking site. Twitter’s official Twitter page even gave her a...
View Article“Rumour Has It” Adele Sent Someone 140 Miles to Get Her Pizza
Simon EmmettAdele isn’t someone you think of as pulling a diva move, but if the British tabloid The Sun is to be believed, she sent someone on a wild goose chase to get her a pizza — and then didn’t...
View ArticleWashington Dept. of Ecology and Aberdeen Contractor Settle $90,000 Penalty
A contractor for the State Route 520 bridge project has paid $60,000 to the Department of Ecology and agreed to develop internal training materials as part of an agreement to settle an earlier...
View ArticleCéline Dion and Jimmy Fallon Play “Wheel of Musical Impressions” on “The...
Andrew Lipovsky/NBCCéline Dion stopped by The Tonight Show to plug her first album following the death of her husband and former manager, Rene Angelil, titled Encore un soir, French for “another...
View ArticleHoquiam seeks input on Downtown Local Historic District
The City of Hoquiam’s Historic Preservation Commission is holding a public meeting/public workshop to discuss the drafting of development guidelines for the Downtown Local Historic District and other...
View ArticleMason County Sheriff’s Office K9 Solo Tracks Suspected Construction Site Thief
A 35-year-old Tacoma man is in custody after being tracked and apprehended by Mason County Sheriff’s Office K9 Solo. Construction workers reported that when they arrived at their job site on Shetland...
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