Cosmopolis News

A new regional fire authority has enough interest that its borders could stretch from Aberdeen to Elma.

The Chehalis River Basin Flood Control Authority unanimously approved membership for the town of Oakville on Tuesday, a move it has been considering for weeks.

Hoquiam High School art teacher and former wrestling coach Russ Skolrood has thrown his hat into the ring in hopes of unseating PUD Commissioner Jim Eddy.

Mayor Vicki Raines honored five citizens who have made outstanding contributions to the community at a special ceremony Wednesday evening.

Oakville keeps on knocking, but it can't get in. The city's mayor, Mitchell Smith, attended a meeting of the Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority yesterday to request that Oakville be represented.

THE DAILY WORLD Roy Nott, who would lead the management team at a re-opened Cosi Mill, stands outside of the Rotary Log Pavilion Wednesday.

Ray Brown, a Westport Shipyard electrician, will attempt to unseat Grays Harbor PUD Commissioner Jim Eddy of Hoquiam.

Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A' rating on the Public Utility District No. 1 of Grays Harbor County, Washington's series 2008, $26,700,000 electric revenue bonds. via Earth Times

The news that Evergreen Pulp Inc. in Samoa has been chosen to acquire and restart a closed-down pulp mill in Aberdeen, Wash., is good news on several levels. via Times-Standard

A California pulp maker and the Grays Harbor Public Utility District are negotiating to buy and reopen a pulp mill in Cosmopolis. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“The washout is a superseding, intervening event regardless of the fact that the washout occurred approximately three months before the defendant operated the motor vehicle”

Mark Vance, a former Cosmopolis volunteer firefighter, was found not guilty Wednesday of vehicular homicide in connection with the death of his fiancee in an off-road vehicle accident in March of 2006. via Daily World

“I'm on the same page as the mayor definitely. I'm right there with him”

DAILY WORLD / DAVID SANDLER Aberdeen firefighters work to put out a blaze at a house on Marion St. via Daily World

City Administrator Brian Shay advises citizens who need to dispose of tress and limbs from their private property to bring them to Grays Harbor Paper, which will use the wood as hog fuel in their boilers, ... via Daily World

“We'll also be making damage assessments - what houses have trees on them?”

Flood waters surround several homes behind Everybody's Supermarket in Elma. As flood waters slowly begin to recede in East Grays Harbor County, National Guardsmen and law enforcement officials set about the ... via Daily World

Grays Harbor County is still in the dark. About 23,000 customers are without power since Monday's storm. via KCPQ

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire has declared a state of emergency, to bring immediate support to areas in the Pacific Northwest affected by storms and flooding. via Insurance Journal West

Schools are reportedly closed Monday in Napavine, Elma, Aberdeen Dist. 5, Cosmopolis, Hoquiam, Montesano, McCleary and Hood Canal. via The Olympian

“We had everything ready to go that Friday before, but then we got an additional 10,000 ballots turned in to us in three days. That's pretty unusual.”

Retired city forrester Ron Schillinger will be Montesano's next mayor, having edged incumbent Dick Stone by 21 votes in a hard-fought contest, while Elma Mayor Dave Osgood squeaked by Debbie Thurman by 15 ... via Daily World

“We understood full well that equipment violations were killing people and we're trying to address that and bring those numbers down.”

DAILY WORLD / KATHY QUIGG The Grays Harbor Sheriff's Office teamed with the State Patrol and an officer from the Cosmopolis Police Department for a commercial vehicle enforcement patrol recently and pulled 12 ... via Daily World

“It's too premature for me to make an absolute commitment (to seek election), but I certainly intend to run or else I wouldn't have put my name out there”

DAILY WORLD FILE / KATHY QUIGG Truman Seely, retired manager of Weyerhaeuser's Cosmopolis pulp mill, was appoined to the PUD commission Monday. via Daily World