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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.
    Commissioners push ahead with homeless shelter funding
    By Clayton Franke • March 6, 2024 9:12 am

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

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    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.
    Ocean Shores residents form local Surfrider Foundation chapter
    By Clayton Franke • March 5, 2024 2:26 pm

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

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    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.
    Former Gateway Center property listed for surplus sale,...
    By Clayton Franke • March 5, 2024 8:30 am

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

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    Mary White
Gerald Smiley, former Texas Rangers pitcher, high-fives Kyler Parmley at the 2023 Grays Harbor Hawks celebrity basketball game.
    Sports celebs to join Special Olympics athletes on...
    By Clayton Franke • March 4, 2024 10:30 am

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

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    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.
    Sidewalk talk resurfaces in Ocean Shores
    By Clayton Franke • March 4, 2024 8:40 am

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

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    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.
    County buys beefed-up ballot boxes
    By Clayton Franke • March 4, 2024 8:00 am

    Auditor says he wants more security during contested election year

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    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)
    County commissioners hesitate to release homeless shelter funds
    By Clayton Franke • February 28, 2024 5:21 pm

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

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    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.
    Federal budget could cut Washington’s tsunami research funding
    By Clayton Franke • February 27, 2024 6:06 pm

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

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    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.
    New Aberdeen clinic aims to spot, treat vein...
    By Clayton Franke • February 27, 2024 11:10 am

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

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    Jim Shank
    Shank not selected for Longview superintendent job
    By Clayton Franke • February 23, 2024 1:36 pm

    North Beach superintendent recently applied for the position

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    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)
    North Beach superintendent a finalist for top job...
    By Clayton Franke • February 22, 2024 12:30 am

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

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    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.
    House unveils construction budget with $17M allocated to...
    By Clayton Franke • February 20, 2024 5:05 pm

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

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    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.
    County appoints local leaders, community members to homelessness...
    By Clayton Franke • February 20, 2024 5:00 pm

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

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