07/17/11 BY STEVEN FRIEDERICH The Daily World AMANDA PARK -- Mobile home residents who expected to be evicted from their homes this month near Amanda Park received a last-second reprieve.
07/12/11 BY DEBORAH TRACY The Daily World The silence that falls upon an elementary school at the start of summer vacation has a different quality about it.
07/08/11 On July 8, 1864, Secretary of the Interior J. P. Usher creates the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, located at the confluence of the Black and Chehalis rivers in southwestern Washington Territory. Usher's directive reserves 4,224.63 acres for the Upper and Lower Chehalis.
06/06/11 BY DEBORAH TRACY The Daily World A routine audit of the Taholah School District uncovered several conditions significant enough to be reported as "findings" by the State Auditor's Office in a report dated April 13. One finding was found to violate state law, and another violated the state...
06/04/11 BY RICK ANDERSON The Daily World ELMA -- As rags-to-riches feats go, Lake Quinault's may have been unprecedented. Unable to win a contested league game, the Elks captured the District IV 1B baseball championship with a pair of dissimilar victories Saturday at Elma's Eagle Field. Dalton Lines...
06/04/11 BY JACOB JONES The Daily World Local city and business leaders hope to apply past lessons to the recent closure of the Grays Harbor Paper mill in hopes of providing support to laid off employees and possibly reopening the facility. Tim Gibbs, executive director of the Grays Harbor Economic...
06/03/11 The Daily World North Beach's Christine You captured the girls individual championship in the District IV Class B Golf Tournament that concluded Thursday at Highland Golf Course in Cosmopolis. With rounds of 93 and 92, You finished with a 36-hole total of 185.
05/06/11 HOQUIAM Rognlin's will do second phase of school work Rognlin's Inc. was selected to be the general contractor for Phase II of the Hoquiam Middle School's renovation project to take place this summer. The project is estimated to cost $1.3 million. Superintendent Mike Parker made this announcement...
04/28/11 MONTESANO -- Revisions to Grays Harbor's critical areas ordinance may be emerging in the next few months as the county hopes to stave off a lawsuit filed last summer over the regulations that oversee wetlands, aquifers, slopes and frequently flooded areas. Seattle-based Futurewise, along with the...
04/03/11 The AP & The Daily World The Oakville School District is one of six districts statewide to share $4.5 million in school improvement grant funding to boost student achievement. Oakville superintendent Kathy Lorton estimated the district would receive about $472,000 for the 2011-2012 school year...
04/02/11 BY DEBORAH TRACY The Daily World Musicians have their Grammys, actors have their Oscars, athletes have their MVPs. When it comes to doctors, local practitioners have Physician of the Year. Dr. Brent Rowe, a general surgeon with Harbor Surgical Associates, was the recipient of the honor this year,...
04/01/11 The AP & The Daily World WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Traces of radioactive material from the endangered Japanese nuclear plant are being detected from coast to coast in the United States and in Iceland, but amounts continue to be far below levels that would cause health problems. The development of...
04/01/11 The Daily World CHEHALIS -- Aberdeen's defense gave Chehalis some openings Saturday. The reigning state 2A champion Bearcats didn't need many.
03/31/11 MONTESANO -- Budget Director Rose Elway estimates that in the current year, state and federal grant funding to Grays Harbor County will be reduced by at least 26 percent, compared to last year. That ends up as a reduction of $566,937, which has an impact on everything from the Sheriff's Office to...
03/30/11 Congress continues budget battle BY PETER URBAN Daily World Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congress avoided a shutdown of non-essential government services last week approving another budget stopgap good through the first week of April. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said the...
03/29/11 BY DAVID HAERLE The Daily World When longtime West Coast music scene stalwart Tower of Power takes the stage at the D&R Theatre tonight, it will be the first stop on their most recent Northwest Tour. It will also be the 10-member band's first show stateside since the harrowing experience of...
03/29/11 The Daily World WALLA WALLA -- Bunching hits around a succession of Lake Quinault errors, perennial state Class 2B power DeSales overpowered the Elks, 20-0, in a non-league baseball game Saturday at Walla Walla.
03/26/11 The Daily World Fire investigators believe a teenager using gasoline to start a fire in a wood stove sparked a blaze that destroyed a Bay Center home. Pacific County Chief Criminal Deputy Pat Matlock reported fire crews responded at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday to a structure fire on Second Street....
 02/25/11 Seattle Public Schools spent up to $1.8 million on contract work that was never done or didn't benef...
02/25/11 BY STEVEN FRIEDERICH The Daily World PACIFIC BEACH -- What happens when a landowner fills a potential wetland, installs a 5-foot tall cement wall and fills the land behind it with hundreds of yards of fill dirt, possibly endangering a neighbor's house? It's the question before Grays Harbor County...
02/25/11 BY STEVEN FRIEDERICH The Daily World MONTESANO -- The Grays Harbor County Commission unanimously ruled against a Pacific Beach man Monday afternoon who filled in potential wetlands and violated a number of county codes. Robert Betcher of B&N Investments must now remove hundreds of yards of dirt... |