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BY JILLIAN BEAUDRY
The Daily World
BRADY -- Christmas is still months away, but Ed Hedlund is putting in days of hard work on his 50-acre Christmas tree farm, shaping the trees by hand.
Hedlund said this time of the year is as busy or busier than harvest time at Christmas.
Every hour, Hedlund...
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For the most part, students on the Twin Harbors continue to lag behind the rest of the state in meeting learning goals in reading, writing, math and science. Test results released Tuesday show many students throughout the state continue to struggle to...
BY STEVEN FRIEDERICH
The Daily World
A year-long effort by the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport to secure a once top-secret nautical vessel as a tourist destination ended in failure recently.
The Seaport applied for and received early approval to be one of the applicants under serious consideration...
BY STEVEN FRIEDERICH
The Daily World
MONTESANO -- The Grays Harbor Canvassing Board, which is charged with ruling on questionable ballots, rejected the primary election ballot of an 83-year-old woman who died two weeks before the ballots were even sent out.
Elections Supervisor Julie Murphy says...
BY JILLIAN BEAUDRY
The Daily World
SATSOP -- When Mario Haynes with the Department of Labor & Industries needed a crane on hand and a trench dug to train some of his future safety investigators, the Regional Education and Training Center was able to make that happen. When Haynes said he needed...
HOQUIAM
Council OKs lease to dance studio
Dancers twirling and leaping to rhythmic music filled the Hoquiam Council Chambers on Monday as the council considered a short-term building lease for the Lighthouse Conservatory of Dance Theater and Culture.
Conservatory founder Luis Mestas showed off his...
MONTESANO -- A mosquito commonly known to carry the West Nile virus and other diseases has turned up in parts of eastern Grays Harbor over the past few weeks, according to Jeff Nelson, the head of the Grays Harbor Environmental Health division.
Samples of the "vector mosquito" were taken by county...
BY JILLIAN BEAUDRY
The Daily World
McCLEARY -- Dean Schwickerath, a commissioner for the Mark Reed Health Care District, says he's disappointed in what he sees as the district's lack of effort to involve the public in decisions on the construction of a replacement hospital in Elma.
The district has...
BY RACHEL THOMSON
The Daily World
OCEAN SHORES -- A levy measure asking Ocean Shores voters for an increase in property taxes to pay for library operations has passed by just three votes.
The final count by the Auditor's office Thursday afternoon was 1,069 to 1,066, a 50 percent to 49.9 percent...
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
The treasurer of the Aberdeen American Legion Post No. 5 faces allegations that he embezzled several thousand dollars from post accounts starting in early 2009.
James E. Law, 56, of Aberdeen, has been charged with first-degree theft after Post commanders found at...
Investors hoping to re-open the Cosmopolis Pulp Mill mothballed by Weyerhaeuser in 2006, are calling themselves Cosmo Specialty Fiber.
That's the name chosen by lead entrepreneur Richard Bassett, a Canadian investor who is still trying to come up with the money to re-start the mill.
On Wednesday,...
Edward Prkut untimely passed in his sleep on August 27th, 2010 at his life long residence in Montesano. Ed was 69.
Ed's life began December 15, 1940 in Butte, Mont., to John Prkut and Mary Skaramuca-Prkut. Ed started his childhood in Seattle, Wash., and attended Catholic School. He later relocated...
DEBORAH TRACY | THE DAILY WORLD
The Aberdeen High School Bobcat and the Hoquiam High School Grizzly square off in anticipation of Saturday's big rivalry game on the new artificial turf at Stewart Field. The game starts at 1 p.m. Tickets are on sale now at the main office of Aberdeen High School...
MACLEOD PAPPIDAS | THE DAILY WORLD
A 16-year-old McCleary teen on his way to a driver's education class with his mother did not make it Tuesday afternoon when he lost control of the family Kia Sodona shortly before 5 p.m. along Highway 12 near Junction City, according to Aberdeen police. No...
BY DEBORAH TRACY
The Daily World
You can feel it in the air. The sun rises a little later; sets a little earlier. Parents drag reluctant children into dressing rooms to try on new clothes and down aisles lined with notebooks and pencils. Teachers throw open windows, airing out closed up classrooms...
BY STEVEN FRIEDERICH
The Daily World
MONTESANO -- The county commissioners unanimously split the Planning & Building Department into two separate offices and appointed interim directors on Monday.
County Commissioner Al Carter proposed the change in the wake of the forced resignation of...
BY JACOB JONES
The Daily World
More than a dozen skateboarders whooped and clapped as the Hoquiam City Council voted Monday to approve a $45,500 contract to construct the city's first skate park.
Dreamland Skate Parks, of Oregon, won the contract to build skating obstacles, including a concrete...
BY STEVEN FRIEDERICH
The Daily World
Because of a mistake in the way a legal petition was written and submitted to the county, the voters in Ocean Shores might be the only ones who get to vote on -- and ultimately be taxed on -- a proposed North Beach Hospital District.
The issue will be on the...
BY DEBORAH TRACY
The Daily World
A lawsuit alleging sexual harassment of an employee was filed Monday against Grays Harbor Community Hospital in U.S. District Court in Tacoma. The complaint and request for jury trial was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requesting relief for...
Aberdeen
Grays Harbor Democrats will meet at 7 p.m., Thursday at the Polish Hall, 823 W. First.
Grays Harbor Bird Club members have scheduled a potluck at 6 p.m., Thursday in the Pearsall Building, 2109 Sumner Ave., followed by a meeting at 7. Everyone is invited.
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