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Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World Aberdeen City Council, which most recently called Rotary Log Pavilion home after Aberdeen City Hall’s elevator broke May 1, is now moving to Grays Harbor College’s Student Services building. The meetings, hopefully a “temporary permanent” position until the city hall elevator is replaced, will occur in room 3322. The news about the switch was announced Thursday morning, six days before the May 22 meeting.

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Aberdeen City Council moves to Grays Harbor College

The Aberdeen City Council will move venues for the second time in a couple weeks after the elevator…

Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World Bruce Moore, left, and Mark Bowman, right, make up The Catahoula Hounds. The musical duo has been playing for a long time and on Saturday 6 p.m., they’ll inject their live energy into Red Cedar Beer Bar — 1941 Riverside Ave., in Hoquiam.

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The Catahoula Hounds will make their mark at Red Cedar on Saturday

Bruce Moore, a talented, veteran musician who’s played music for more than 40 years, laughed about a little…

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Brian Shay: ‘This is us trying to solve the problem’

On Monday night, the city of Hoquiam solved two issues the city has faced.

Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World Wil Russoul, director of Downtown Aberdeen Association, points out how expansive Aberdeen’s Downtown Parking and Business Improvement District is while he discusses DAA’s micro grants program that will help downtown Aberdeen businesses. The district runs north to south from 1st Street to the Chehalis River Bridge and east to west from North D Street to L Street.

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Aberdeen City Council votes for downtown business micro grants

The Aberdeen City Council voted unanimously to help the city’s downtown businesses improve themselves in two ways, which…

Provided photo John C. Hughes, who spent 42 years as reporter, editor and publisher of The Daily World and who is the chief historian for the Secretary of State office in Olympia, heads to Polson Museum — 1611 Riverside Ave., in Hoquiam at 2 p.m., Saturday. Hughes will talk about and sign his new book “Lightning Boldt: Judge George H. Boldt and a defining moment in tribal sovereignty.”

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John Hughes to sign new book at Polson Museum on Saturday

One of Grays Harbor’s favorite writers is up to his old tricks with a new project.

Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World The Aberdeen City Hall elevator broke Wednesday and so for the foreseeable future, until the elevator is replaced, city council meetings will take place in the Rotary Log Pavilion — 1401 Sargent Blvd., Aberdeen. Ruth Clemens, Aberdeen’s city administrator, spoke about the elevator breaking and why, what it needs and both the replacement timeline and a ballpark estimate of the costs.

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Aberdeen City Council meetings shift to Rotary Log Pavilion

One of Aberdeen’s oldest civil servants has quit. But it’s not a person, it’s the elevator at Aberdeen…

Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World Bette Worth, who helped start Aberdeen Bloom Team in 2014, was planting again on North Broadway Street Wednesday morning as part of the volunteer team’s efforts to beautify Aberdeen. Worth and her fellow volunteers spoke about what they love about their work.

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Celebrating 10 years of Aberdeen Bloom Team

If flowers are planted in downtown Aberdeen, do they make a sound? Yes, yes they do.

Rick Moyer of Moyer Multi Media LLC. Kurdt Vanderhoof, guitarist for Hall Aflame, talks about his band’s new record Amplifire, which releases on Friday. Vanderhoof, an Aberdeen-born musician of Metal Church fame, spoke about returning to Aberdeen to shoot music videos on the Harbor.

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Hall Aflame has ‘a whole lotta fun’ making Amplifire

Turn those radio dials back to when rock was king because on Friday, Hall Aflame will release its…

Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World The city of Aberdeen’s posted “Sidewalk Closed” signs along the east side of South I Street — in between the intersection with East Wishkah Street. They aren’t there for show. They’re there to keep people safe, because there are parts of the 98-year-old Becker Building’s façade that are falling off the exterior.

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Becker Building found in disrepair

Drivers and pedestrians ought to take seriously the “Sidewalk Closed” signs outside of Aberdeen’s tallest building, the Becker…

Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World Justin Kautzman and Larry Cowles discuss what happened with The Loading Dock, which from November 2022 to February 2024 was an all-ages venue in downtown Aberdeen.

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The Loading Dock has no planned public return

It’s been a couple months now since the last public, live concert at The Loading Dock, which leads…

Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World An extensive, complex and technical process that has included city staff, city councilors, consultants and residents, which will all help decide on what to do with the North Aberdeen Bridge, will come to its end this summer. For now, there are three bridge alternatives. But now, the process becomes more advanced, according to Nick Bird, Aberdeen’s city engineer, who shared this quote Thursday afternoon. ““In the level 2 screening, we will be digging into any potential fatal flaws and fleshing out these alternatives increasing the detail and our understanding of the construction cost, utility impacts, right-of-way impacts, environmental impacts, funding risk and other decision criteria.”

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Paring down North Aberdeen Bridge Alternatives

The alternative analysis process for what to do with the North Aberdeen Bridge is nearing its end as…

The city is currently “entering” what it calls the final phases of design for the U.S. Highway 12 Rail Separation Project, and so it is releasing a website for people to learn more about the large-scale work. (Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World)

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Aberdeen releases rail separation project website

The city is currently “entering” what it calls the final phases of design for the U.S. Highway 12…

Shelley Guinn, who’s the state oral health program manager for the Washington State Department of Health, spoke to Aberdeen City Council about what fluoride does, its effect on teeth and the rest of the human body, as well as what its absence used to cause. (Clayton Franke / The Daily World)

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Expert points out need for fluoride in city water

Aberdeen City Council invited a registered dental hygienist (RDH) in order to explain why fluoride is important for…