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The Daily World file photo Richard Wills, who holds Position 6 on the Ocean Shores City Council, talks during a campaign forum in 2023.

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Shores councilor facing recall petition

Petition alleges Richard Wills broke duties during recent appoinment process

Courtesy of Leigh Rowley / Grays Harbor County Public Health Dr. Laura Galati cuts a ceremonial ribbon March 14, celebrating the opening of a School-Based Health Center inside North Beach Junior/Senior High School.

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Health center for students, staff opens at North Beach Jr/Sr High

State-funded model aims to reduce absence, increase access for rural areas

Clayton Franke / The Daily World From left: Bartender Stacy DeCamp and cook Everett Denny of the Porthole Pub celebrate Saturday, March 16 after their clam chowder took first prize in the judge’s choice category in a chowder contest during the 2024 Razor Clam Festival and Seafood Extravaganza at the Ocean Shores Convention Center.

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Chowder champs crowned as thousands flock for clam fest

Sunny weather, favorable tides aligned with three-day affair

Bubbles foam in the fountain outside Aberdeen City Hall on March 19. Aberdeen City Council will meet for a workshop to discuss homelessness at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20. (Clayton Franke / The Daily World)

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Aberdeen council to discuss potential homeless shelter project

Homeless committee has weighed pros and cons of applying for funds

Clayton Franke / The Daily World Emily Bayes, an assistant field geologist with ConeTec, the company hired to conduct soil stability assessments at the Hoquiam School District, operates a drilling machine at the Hoquiam High School baseball field on Feb. 21.

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Seismic studies: Are Harbor schools on safe soil?

Of the 14 state schools receiving seismic grant money, 12 of them are in Grays Harbor

Cosmopolis Police Department The Aberdeen Police Department is going to take over some calls from the Cosmopolis Police Department due to the city’s financial crunch.

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Contract with Aberdeen could fill Cosi cop void

Neighboring city already provides mutual aid to Cosmopolis

Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World file Aberdeen firefighters respond to a fire in Hoquiam in 2022.

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Aberdeen ambulance rate bump on the horizon

Study lays out financial scenarios for three different rate levels

Clayton Franke / The Daily World The Aberdeen City Council sits in its city hall chambers during a meeting Wednesday, March. 13, when a request to reconsider lodging tax funding for Harbor Art Guild, a nonprofit run by Mayor Doug Orr, was struck from the agenda.

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Aberdeen council reiterates: No funding for Glow

Request to reconsider decision to nix funding struck from Wednesday’s agenda

Morry Gash / Pool President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden exchange points during the first presidential debate Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio.

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How Grays Harbor voted in Washington’s presidential primary

Support for Biden and Trump was slightly higher than statewide margins

The Daily World file photo U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer talks with Hoquiam City Administrator Brian Shay during a July 24, 2024 visit to the West Fork Hoquiam Dam. A recent congressional spending bill includes $500,000 for the city’s dam removal and water supply project.

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Federal spending bill sends money to police station, dam projects

Congress avoided partial government shutdown and inked bill including $1.8 million for Harbor

Mark Yuasa / WDFW People dig for razor clams on a beach near Ocean Shores. Digs are scheduled during the day on March 15 and 16 at Copalis to coincide with the Ocean Shores Razor Clam Festival and Seafood Extravaganza. (Mark Yuasa / WDFW) People dig for razor clams on a beach near Ocean Shores. Digs are scheduled during the day on March 15 and 16 at Copalis to coincide with the Ocean Shores Razor Clam Festival and Seafood Extravaganza.

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Golden shells, blue skies: Clam fest and warm temps coming to Ocean Shores

Three days of razor clam digs, music and seafood eating falls on nicest weekend of 2024 to date

Kimberly Stoll-French / Coastal Community Action Program State and local agencies are investing in modular houses, which are built in a factory and then delivered to vacant land, as a form of affordable housing. Coastal Community Action Program has funding to bring 36 new modular units online.

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CCAP expanding affordable modular housing projects

The agency is slated to deliver 36 new units scattered across Grays Harbor County

Clayton Franke / The Daily World The state’s final 2024 supplemental capital budget includes nearly $8 million for an expansion of the Quinault Wellness Center in Aberdeen.

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Final state capital budget showers Harbor, tribe in funding

Legislature passes $1.3 billion capital budget includes $48 million for projects within county