Local News
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:15
A giant, lighted, shopping cart from the Thriftway supermarket makes its way through downtown Montesano during the Festival of Lights parade Saturday night. The parade is the centerpiece of the annual festival sponsored by the Montesano Chamber of Commerce, now in its 25th year. The festival also...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:13
BY STEVEN FRIEDERICH
The Daily World
The Timberland Regional Library District is working with city and school officials to put a public library at Cosmopolis Elementary.
The idea is that the library would be used by school kids during the day and be open after hours for use by the general public....
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:13
BY STEVEN FRIEDERICH
The Daily World
Local legislators have signed on to a letter calling for Gov. Chris Gregoire not to cut Medicaid funding to critical access hospitals, including Willapa Harbor Hospital in South Bend and Mark Reed Hospital in McCleary.
The letter from 33 mainly rural state...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:14
By Leif Nesheim
The Sylvia Creek Forestry Trail is still there despite a major logging operation and downed trees near one end. The trail is one of the more popular trails traversing the Montesano City Forest. It recently re-opened after logging on Healthy Hill ended. However, I received a report...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:12
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
At the edge of the expansive Pacific Ocean, nestled among the evergreens and industrial infrastructure, massive ships make port along the shores of Grays Harbor. Long trains stretch across the waterfront as warehouses sit stocked for export. Work crews crowd the docks...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:12
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
With sharpened axes and earnest will, rough men once sought to carve a home and industrial hub out of the old growth wilderness surrounding Grays Harbor. Log booms and private docks packed the shorelines as sawmills churned timber day and night. Longshore crews stowed...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:12
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
A familiar whistle, deep and lonesome, has long carried through the Harbor with the passage of trains rattling to and from the Port of Grays Harbor. Running steel railcars of timber, grain and now thousands of automobiles, the railroad's history stretches parallel to...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:13
BY ANGELO BRUSCAS
The Daily World
As the longest surviving tenant at the Grays Harbor Port, dating back to 1937, Western Steel has weathered its share of storms.
First, there was the economic storm of the Great Depression. Then there was the storm of change that came a half century later when the...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:13
Isabelle Lamb, local businesswoman and former Port of Grays Harbor commissioner, has helped shape the Harbor's waterfront in a variety of ways. Her father-in-law was legendary timber baron and port advocate Frank Lamb, credited with pushing for the creation of the Port of Grays Harbor.
Isabelle...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:13
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
A century ago, the Port of Grays Harbor was founded to protect public access to the waterways as industry grew along the coastline. Port officials have worked over the years to acquire local infrastructure they felt was important to providing that access for people to...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:13
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
No one knows the shifting currents and tides of the narrow Grays Harbor navigation channel better than the Harbor pilots who must guide visiting vessels of all kinds safely into port each day.
With the Chehalis River rushing into the tide's ebb and flow, the two...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:13
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
Towering gray columns of concrete rise in a massive row above the bustling waterfront. The silos dwarf the men and machines toiling and chugging below as the crews work to construct new stairways, chutes and steel frames to raise the columns even higher into the...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:13
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
In an aging black-and-white photo in the hallway of the local
longshore hall, working men with callused hands don three-piece suits to immortalize a pivotal moment in labor history.
Alongside legendary union leader Harry Bridges, delegates from up and down the West...
Sunday, December 11, 2011 - 02:14
BY PETER URBAN
Daily World Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The House voted last week to put a brake on major federal regulations, part of a drive by Republicans to rein in what they consider onerous government rules.
Lawmakers voted 241-184 to require congressional approval of any federal...
Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 03:12
BY DOUG BARKER
The Daily World
The artist's challenge was to paint the story of the Port of Grays Harbor -- huge in scale, varied in purpose and transformed over the past 100 years.
Erik Sandgren did it in a mural that will hang in the Port Commission meeting room and be unveiled Monday at 5 p.m....
Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 03:12
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
Port of Grays Harbor officials got another reason to celebrate as the Washington Public Port Association named the local district as 2011 Port of the Year just in time for the Port's 100 year anniversary.
The Port of Grays Harbor announced the award in a news release...
Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 03:12
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
As if methamphetamine wasn't bad enough already, Harbor authorities say recent batches of the highly addictive drug may include unknown ingredients that have caused people to become violently delusional, breaking windows and fighting with officers.
Hoquiam police...
Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 03:12
After 10 months the Aberdeen Museum of History's new heating system is now completely installed and working fine.
Winter hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
To rent the facility for wedding receptions, anniversary parties, class reunions, etc. or for more information, call 533-...
Saturday, December 10, 2011 - 03:12
HOQUIAM
Polson open house
is Sunday
The Polson Museum will host its annual Christmas open house from noon to four Sunday.
A brief story in this week's Preview magazine section of The Daily World mistakenly stated that the event was today.
There will be refreshments by the fireplace and the Polson...
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 12:15
BY ANGELO BRUSCAS
The Daily World
For 37 years, Karen Menzel has served hungry Haborites at the corner of Heron and Jefferson Street.
For the first 35, it was with the Denny's chain, and then with America's Diner when a Seattle-based businessman purchased four of the franchise restaurants and...