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Clayton Franke / The Daily World From left: Grays Harbor County Commissioners Jill Warne and Kevin Pine sit at a meeting of the Grays Harbor County Board of Commissioners Tuesday, March 5. Commissioners approved a motion to offer $500,000 for the purchase of a homeless shelter in Grays Harbor County.

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Commissioners push ahead with homeless shelter funding

County now taking applications for up to $500,000 for permanent shelter purchase

Kimberly Johnson / Surfrider Grays Harbor Local chapter chair Bruce Rittenhouse and state coordinator Liz Schotman, center, converse with an attendee at a launch party for the Surfrider Foundation’s new Grays Harbor chapter at the Oyhut Bay Grill in Ocean Shores on Feb. 27.

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Ocean Shores residents form local Surfrider Foundation chapter

Grays Harbor is the sixth location for group focused on plastics pollution and coastal protections

Clayton Franke / The Daily World Cars exit the Wishkah Street bridge on March 4, near four parcels of property totaling about one acre in an area where the city of Aberdeen formerly planned to build the Grays Harbor Gateway Center, a project abandoned in 2022. The Aberdeen City Council moved to surplus the property in February, but later pulled it from the list to use as a staging area for upcoming construction projects.

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Former Gateway Center property listed for surplus sale, then removed

Public works department to use centrally-located land for construction material in upcoming projects

Mary White Gerald Smiley, former Texas Rangers pitcher, high-fives Kyler Parmley at the 2023 Grays Harbor Hawks celebrity basketball game.

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Sports celebs to join Special Olympics athletes on court for fundraiser

Grays Harbor Hawks are hosting 12th annual celebrity basketball game, silent auction

The Daily World file photo The city of Ocean Shores began the process of procuring designs for a sidewalk construction project on Point Brown Avenue, north of the city’s roundabout.

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Sidewalk talk resurfaces in Ocean Shores

After scrapping old project plans, city moves toward procuring new designs

Courtesy of Joe Maclean Pictured here, a ballot box installed in Ocean Shores last year has a similar design to the new, sturdier ballot boxes that will soon be implemented across Grays Harbor County.

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County buys beefed-up ballot boxes

Auditor says he wants more security during contested election year

Pictured in 2023, the largest homeless encampment in Grays Harbor County is near River Street and the Chehalis River bridge in Aberdeen. (The Daily World file photo)

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County commissioners hesitate to release homeless shelter funds

Legal and budget concerns, along with pushback, laced discussions at Tuesday meeting

Clayton Franke / The Daily World Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz talks on Feb. 23 at the state Route 115 beach approach in Ocean Shores. Franz called on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to continue funding the state’s tsunami mitigation research.

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Federal budget could cut Washington’s tsunami research funding

State has produced slew of evacuation maps, models with money from national mitigation program

Clayton Franke / The Daily World Jennifer Ferry, an echocardiographer at Providence Medical Group’s vascular clinic in Aberdeen, demonstrates the clinic’s vascular ultrasound machine on Hillary Brodin, the clinic’s manager, on Feb. 23. Using sound waves, the machine can form images of blood flow and vein function in order to identify and assess disease.

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New Aberdeen clinic aims to spot, treat vein disease

Providence Medical Group expands expertise of vascular surgeons from Olympia to Harbor

Jim Shank

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Shank not selected for Longview superintendent job

North Beach superintendent recently applied for the position

Dr. Jim Shank takes the oath of North Beach superintendent's office June 20, 2023. Longview School District announced Feb. 17 that Shank is a finalist for its superintendent job. (The Daily World file photo)

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North Beach superintendent a finalist for top job in Longview

Longview School Board to pick Friday morning between Jim Shank, two others for superintendent role

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife The Legislature, both the House and Senate, have included $2 million in grants to fund salmon recovery projects, including culvert replacement on Damon Creek near the Humptulips River, and a restoration project at the headwaters of Schafer Creek, which drains into the West Fork Satsop River from the mountains east of Wynoochee Lake. Pictured is the Satsop River.

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House unveils construction budget with $17M allocated to Harbor

Major Quinault Indian Nation requests for land purchase and wellness center omitted

Grays Harbor County Board of Commissioners The Grays Harbor County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved recommendations to appoint 13 people to a homeless housing task force that will advise the board on homelessness spending and create a five-year housing plan.

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County appoints local leaders, community members to homelessness task force

13-member advisory body will recommend homeless spending, help draft five-year plan