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Grays Harbor Conservation District A site on the Recreation and Conservation Office tour was a proposed riparian restoration site that the Grays Habor Conservation District would restore.

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Recreation and Conservation Office tours East Grays Harbor grant applicants

On Tuesday, staff with the Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO), Office of Financial Management, House and Senate Appropriations…

Andrea Watts / The Daily World At their June meeting, the Montesano Friends of the Library hosted a Q&A with trustee Dustin Loup and East Grays Harbor District Manager Tania Remmers.

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Montesano Friends of Library host Q&A

With the Friends of the Library groups for Hoquiam and McCleary Timberland Regional Libraries having hosted a Q&A…

Rachael Hahn / McCleary Museum In honor of America’s 250th, the McCleary Museum held a free family carnival, and one of the activities was a patriotic costume contest.

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McCleary Museum celebrates America’s 250th

To celebrate America’s 250th birthday, on Saturday afternoon McCleary Museum held a free family carnival featuring a pie…

Sophia Sherman The source of the Brazilian elodea found in the Chehalis River is Plummer Lake, which is located in Centralia. Because Brazilian elodea is used in home aquariums, its likely source was a home aquarium being dumped into the lake.

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Grays Harbor Noxious Weed Control Board receives $1.3 million in funding to remove Brazilian elodea

In stretches of the Chehalis River between Montesano and Plummer Lake, which is located in Centralia, grows the…

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Comment period extended for draft EIS land use plan

At the rescheduled Grays Harbor County Planning Commission’s special meeting held on June 9, the planning commissioners and…

For the students at the plant identification station, Anthony Waldrop asked the students to find a plant to describe and draw a plant. (Andrea Watts / The Daily World)

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Learning about the lower Satsop River ecosystem

Throughout the school year, 5th graders at Elma Elementary have been learning about the salmon life cycle and…

The Daily World file photo Classic cars will line Levee Street in Hoquiam Saturday, June 27 for the return of the Hoquiam Push Rods Riverside Run Revival car show after a 15-year hiatus. In 2019, this 1934 Ford Henry owned by Joe and Beth Pavletich of Montesano was among the dozens of entries.

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Celebrating America’s 250th at Hoquiam Hullabaloo this weekend

This year, Hoquiam is the city to visit this Friday and Saturday with the inaugural Hoquiam Hullabaloo. Not…

Bishop Center for the Performing Arts The first table read by the cast of the SpongeBob Musical. The first table read by the cast of the SpongeBob Musical. (Bishop Center for the Performing Arts)

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From the Wings: 7th Street Kids cast list announced and upcoming productions

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Andrea Watts / The Daily World Since November 2025, 4-H youth members have spent Sunday afternoons participating in Sewing Workshop Series where they learned how to sew items such as pillows, pillowcases and market bags.

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Master quilters and 4-H members sew together during 4-H Sewing Series

Sunday marked the last official day of the 4-H Sewing Workshop Series that began last fall, and the…

Andrea Watts photos / The Daily World Grays Harbor College students taking the spring quarter class “Introduction to Acting” performed “Our Place” written by Terry Baggard for the College’s spring drama. The students were Jessie Sanchez, Liz Martinez, Cori Knutson, Nicki Pennington, Corrine Towner, Helen Roush, Tiffani Coltrain and Paige Brueher.

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Grays Harbor College students perform Our Place for spring drama

On Saturday, Grays Harbor College students taking the Introduction to Acting class this spring quarter performed a sold-out,…

Andrea Watts / The Daily World As the Coastal Interpretive Center’s museum research college intern for the winter and spring of 2026, Kelly Hewitt created a temporary exhibit on Human Wildlife Interactions in Grays Harbor and wrote articles on 16 items that explored the history of each item.

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What’s new to see at Ocean Shores Coastal Interpretive Center

Visitors can visit a temporary exhibit on human-wildlife interactions and explore the new dune ecosystem garden

Andrea Watts / The Daily World Earlier this month, members of the Cloquallum Work Group spent the day visiting sites within the Cloquallum Watershed to assess the suitability of future stream restoration projects in Grays Harbor and Mason counties. The first site visited was just outside of Elma, near where the Cloquallum enters the Chehalis River.

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Assessing future sites in the Cloquallum Watershed for stream restoration

Earlier this month, members of the Cloquallum Work Group spent the day visiting sites in a portion of…

On Tuesday morning, construction crews working along W Spruce Avenue, between N 1st Street and N Main Street, struck a natural gas line, resulting in a gas leak, which prompted evacuations of nearby residences and business. At 4:00 p.m., Cascade Natural Gas secured the line and residents could return home.

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Gas leak along W Spruce Avenue in Montesano secured

The gas leak occurred while construction crews were working along W Spruce Street for the Main/Spruce pedestrian safety…