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The Grays Harbor Drug Task Force serves a search warrant in Monetsano.

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Drug task force busts four, seizes drugs in Montesano

On Monday, March 2, the Grays Harbor Drug Task Force (GHDTF), with assistance from deputies from the Grays…

Andrea Watts photos / The Daily World
On Feb. 28, Central Elementary School students staged Missoula Children’s Theatre production of Sleeping Beauty.

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From the Wings: Central Elementary School students take the stage in Sleeping Beauty and audition calls

In the hallway leading to Hoquiam’s Central Elementary School’s gym, the walls are decorated with collages of past…

The Glam Bandit will perform at the Event Center At The McCleary Museum Friday evening.

Life

Leap into spring with live music in the Twin Harbors

There are plenty of live musical performances encompassing several genres scheduled in the Twin Harbors in the coming…

At McCleary's Feb. 25 City Council meeting, McCleary Mayor Brycen Huff swore in Don Kuismi, who is filling the Council Position 2. (City of McCleary)

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City Council meetings round-up

Aberdeen

Andrea Watts / The Daily World
With his wife, Lori, standing alongside him, Tracy Gay was sworn in as the new police chief for the city of Elma on March 2. Mayor Josh Collette administered the oath of office.

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Tracy Gay sworn in as city of Elma’s police chief

During its March 2 city council meeting, the council confirmed Tracy Gay as the city of Elma’s new…

El Matador Fishing Charters
The El Matador during its time as a ferry between Ocean Shores and Westport.

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Ferry from Westport to Ocean Shores? Lawmaker has a plan

Bill aims to get more passenger ferries on the Puget Sound in the short term

Jim Bates / The Daily World file photo
Aberdeen Librarian Rosalie Spellman, left, with her husband, John, former head librarian at Grays Harbor College, and Ed and Lillian Van Syckle at a Friends of the Library event in 1980.

Opinion

If layoffs are inevitable at TRL, start at the top

DEAR READER: Librarians are my favorite people. They are underpaid, underappreciated and under attack by book-banners and other…

Dave Timmons

District Two Commissioner

Grays Harbor PUD

Opinion

A day on the Hill in Olympia is time well spent

On a cool and (thankfully) dry February morning, Washington PUD Association members took trays of coffee around the…

Opinion

Budget needs hard choices, not rainy day fund

Washington lawmakers received a bit of a reprieve last week. But as they negotiate the supplemental operating budget…

Andrea Watts / The Daily World
During Invasive Species Awareness week, the Grays Harbor Noxious Weed Control board staff visited Aberdeen and Hoquiam high achools to present on invasive species and lead students on a weed walk to show the invasive species growing on their campus. At Hoquiam High School, Danika Davis, the Grays Harbor noxious weed coordinator, shows students where a patch of knotweed is growing and said that it would take nearly a decade to fully treat the patch.

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Wrapping up a successful Invasive Species Awareness Week

On Saturday, Feb. 28, the Grays Harbor Noxious Weed Control Board (GHNWCB) wrapped up a weeklong educational campaign…

Jerry Knaak / The Daily World
From left: Grays Harbor County Commissioner Vickie Raines, Ocean City Drainage District Commissioners Michelle Wiley, Stan Sturgeon and Jon Schleiger, and consultant Scott Boettcher.

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Ocean City drainage district commissioners sworn-in

UPDATED! The three newly appointed commissioners for the recently created Ocean City Drainage District — Stan Sturgeon, Michelle…

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Montesano is the county seat for Grays Harbor County.

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Where are Washington’s poorest counties?

Both Grays Harbor and Pacific counties among poorest counties in the state

City of Cosmopolis
A recent Soup Day at the Cosmopolis Council and Community Center.

Life

Food bank and free meal directory

There are numerous organizations and agencies in and around Grays Harbor stepping into the breach feeding hungry people,…