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Richard Wills, who holds Position 6 on the Ocean Shores City Council, talks during a campaign forum in 2023.
    Shores councilor facing recall petition
    By Clayton Franke • March 20, 2024 4:18 pm

    Petition alleges Richard Wills broke duties during recent appoinment process

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    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.
    Health center for students, staff opens at North...
    By Clayton Franke • March 19, 2024 1:14 pm

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

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    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.
    Chowder champs crowned as thousands flock for clam...
    By Clayton Franke • March 19, 2024 9:56 am

    Sunny weather, favorable tides aligned with three-day affair

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    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)
    Aberdeen council to discuss potential homeless shelter project
    By Clayton Franke • March 19, 2024 9:10 am

    Homeless committee has weighed pros and cons of applying for funds

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    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.
    Seismic studies: Are Harbor schools on safe soil?
    By Clayton Franke • March 15, 2024 11:53 am

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

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    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.
    Contract with Aberdeen could fill Cosi cop void
    By Clayton Franke • March 14, 2024 5:26 pm

    Neighboring city already provides mutual aid to Cosmopolis

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    Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World file
Aberdeen firefighters respond to a fire in Hoquiam in 2022.
    Aberdeen ambulance rate bump on the horizon
    By Clayton Franke • March 14, 2024 5:24 pm

    Study lays out financial scenarios for three different rate levels

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    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.
    Aberdeen council reiterates: No funding for Glow
    By Clayton Franke • March 14, 2024 5:23 pm

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

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    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.
    How Grays Harbor voted in Washington’s presidential primary
    By Clayton Franke • March 13, 2024 7:00 pm

    Support for Biden and Trump was slightly higher than statewide margins

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    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.
    Federal spending bill sends money to police station,...
    By Clayton Franke • March 13, 2024 8:47 am

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

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    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.
    Golden shells, blue skies: Clam fest and warm...
    By Clayton Franke • March 12, 2024 8:46 am

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

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    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.
    CCAP expanding affordable modular housing projects
    By Clayton Franke • March 11, 2024 8:49 am

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

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    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.
    Final state capital budget showers Harbor, tribe in...
    By Clayton Franke • March 7, 2024 8:43 am

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

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