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DAN HAMMOCK | THE DAILY WORLD The grounds of the Westport Maritime Museum will be the place to be for seafood Saturday, not to mention arts and crafts vendors. The 74th annual seafood festival returns this year after a pandemic-related year off in 2020.

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Seafood and Corvettes: Two of Westport’s favorite festivals return Saturday

It’s going to be a busy Saturday in Westport.

DAN HAMMOCK | THE DAILY WORLD KBKW’s longtime Coffee Talk morning radio personality Doug McDowell gave his last broadcast from the Hoquiam Farmer’s Market on Tuesday morning, Aug. 31, 2021. The place was packed with listeners and numerous former and current elected officials. Here McDowell is greeted by Port of Grays Harbor Commissioner Tom Quigg. McDowell’s wife, Lorie, is in the foreground.

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Longtime Harbor morning talk radio host signs off

After decades in the broadcast business, KBKW NewsTalk morning show host Doug McDowell gave his final broadcast at…

The Westport Maritime Museum will be hosting an “ask the experts” forum on the main stage at the Grayland Community Hall Driftwood Festival Saturday and Sunday. Beachcombing and glass floats experts Alan Rammer (pictured) and Walt Pich will be on the panel. Visitors can learn about beachcombing and Japanese glass fishing floats, and can bring their own finds in to have the experts fill them on their origins. Pich has authored what are considered the definitive guides on glass floats and will have his books available for purchase at the event. (Courtesy Westport Maritime Museum)

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Ask the experts about glass floats at Grayland Driftwood Festival

The Westport Maritime Museum will be hosting an “ask the experts” forum on the main stage at the…

South County Fire paramedic Larry Hadland, left, hands a proof of vaccination card while emergency medical technician Kim Sharpe vaccinates Abel Cordova, 63, at his home on April 20, 2021. Cordova was unable to travel for a vaccination. Greg Gilbert |The Seattle Times

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County public health director: unvaccinated population putting strain on county’s hospitals

The vast majority of COVID-19 cases during this fifth wave of the pandemic is coming from unvaccinated people,…

The North Shore Levee would begin on the west side of the Wishkah River, protecting properties from flooding like that seen here in a photo from December 2018. (File photo)

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Aberdeen commits $7 million to North Shore Levee

Council debates use of armory fire settlement funds while museum future remains undecided

courtesy of John Shaw Two historic Coast Guard motor lifeboats entered the Westport Marina on Aug. 16, 2021. Both boats were donated for display to the Westport South Beach Historical Society.

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Historic Coast Guard vessels donated to Westport Maritime Museum

Two historic U.S. Coast Guard vessels left Astoria and Warrenton in Oregon on Aug. 16 for the short…

The new waterfront park at Adams and Fifth Street in Hoquiam will be known as the Old Cannery Park, after the Haines Crown Packers fish cannery that once stood at the site. (File photo)

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Two Hoquiam parks officially named

Hoquiam’s two new parks now have official names — one for a cannery that used to stand nearby,…

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Blue Slough road closure Wednesday

The Blue Slough Road cutoff between Cosmopolis and Montesano will be closed much of the day Wednesday, Aug.…

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Heather LeVeille U.S. Air Force Col. Jack R. Arthaud, 33rd Wing commander, speaks for the first time as commander during his change of command ceremony, July 30, 2021, at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. Arthaud took command after serving as the Weapons School commander at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.

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High-flying Hoquiam native leads 33rd Fighter Wing

Hoquiam native Col. Jack R. Arthaud was recently named commander of the U.S. Air Force 33rd Fighter Wing…

Seattle Firefighter and EMT Garth Stroyan administers a COVID-19 vaccination for Asya Strounine, 13, an eighth grader at Jane Addams Middle School, at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle on June 10, 2021. Strounine says she was a little nervous about the vaccination, but is looking forward to having more protection against COVID-19. Erika Schultz | The Seattle Times

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Fifth COVID wave continues to roll through county

Grays Harbor County COVID-19 cases continued to climb the week of Aug. 12-18 as the county, like most…

DAN HAMMOCK | THE DAILY WORLD A portion of the North Shore Levee West Segment would run along Levee Street in Hoquiam between the Riverside Bridge, visible in the background, and the Simpson Avenue Bridge.

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$4 million approved by Chehalis Basin Board for Hoquiam levee

After about a month’s delay, the Chehalis Basin Board has approved the allocation of $70 million in state…

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Woman pleads guilty in 2019 controlled substance homicide

Admits to supplying heroin to man who died of overdose

Courtesy of Grays Harbor Fire District 2 The driver of this semitruck fell asleep and crashed near Bryrwood Drive on Highway 12, blocking the westbound lanes for five hours on Tuesday.

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Semi driver dozes off, blocks westbound Highway 12 for five hours

Traffic on Highway 12 east of Central Park was snarled for hours on Tuesday afternoon after a semitruck…