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The Daily World photos McKenzie Cotey performs a flute solo during the Grays Harbor College Jazz Festival on Thursday.

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Smooth vibes only at Grays Harbor College Jazz Festival

The Bishop Center for Performing Arts hosted the 8th Annual Grays Harbor College Jazz Festival Thursday.

The newly minted 2026 Aberdeen City Council (Jerry Knaak / The Daily World)

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Grays Harbor city councils get off to a running start in 2026

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Andrea Watts / The Daily World In summer of 2023, the middle fork Wildcat Creek had three fish passage barrier corrections on Summit Road, Elma Hicklin Road, and County Line Road. Instead of flowing through culverts, the creek now flows under pre-cast concrete bridges. On County Line Road, flooding over the roadway occurred often enough that the county flagged it as needing fixing because of ongoing maintenance issues. A visual sign that a restoration project is achieving its goals is how the water is flowing. Basically, you make sure the water is going through at a slow enough rate for the juveniles and the water is not narrowed up and shooting right through, said Lonnie Crumley, chair of the nonprofit Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force. When the steam flowed through the culverts, the higher stream velocity negatively affected the substrate transport. The narrowed channel passage also caused the water to flood upstream. As a result of the barrier correction, “everything’s getting back into a natural system,” said co-owner of Streamworks Consulting Brett Demond. The section of creek that flows under Summit Road showed signs that the creek overtopped its banks and flooded into the grassy field, but not nearly the extent as it had in previous years. “This whole field here would go underwater ,” Crumley said, and cDemond added, “so it’s really reduced the flooding, but it’s still connected to the floodplain.” Another visual sign that the restoration is successful is that you aren’t seeing any fish moving through, which does seem counter intuitive. “Everybody always complains when they come, they don’t see any fish, but that’s the whole point,” said Crumley. “We don’t want them building up here. We want them going on through.” Crumley points out a section of gravel that appears brighter colored than the surrounding gravel. “That’s probably a redd right in there,” he said. A redd is where a female salmon has laid her eggs, and digging in the gravel cleans it. On County Line Road, the bridge also replaced three pipes, and the stream is “now acting like a normal stream” Demond said. Looking over the edge of the bridge, Crumley observed, “Not too many shiny spots here.” Downstream of the bridge is an active beaver pond.

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Checking in on the Chehalis Basin restoration projects

Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force restoration projects in East Grays Harbor County improved fish passage and kept water…

Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau Olympic National Park.

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Olympic National Park had more than 3.6M visitors in ’25

Shortly after Sula Jacobs began working for the National Park Service, she told a friend she wanted to…

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Talk on pellet plant problems set for Monday

On Monday, Jan. 19 Paul Koberstein, co-author of Canopy of Titans, is giving a talk on the wood…

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In 1991 NB Junior-Senior High School opens in Oyehut …

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Friends of Schafer and Lake Sylvia Friends of Schafer and Lake Sylvia pull ivy during April of 2025.

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Lake Sylvia State Park ivy pull set for Monday

On Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan. 19, join the Friends of Schafer and Lake Sylvia and the…

Timberland Regional Libraries Mychal Threets poses for a photo with “Workman MJ” at the Lacey Timberland Library.

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Alex Kormann / The Minnesota Star Tribune A U.S. Border Patrol agent holds down a pepper-sprayed bystander where Renee Good was shot and killed by Jonathan Ross, an ICE agent, in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

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Proposed ban on police face coverings gains momentum

Gov. Bob Ferguson has thrown support behind the bill. It could face legal challenges if passed

Jerry Knaak / The Daily World Rep. Joel McEntire makes remarks at the Greater Grays Harbor, Inc. Coastal Caucus legislative send-off at the Rotary Log Pavilion in Aberdeen.

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Greater Grays Harbor, Inc. hosts Coastal Caucus legislative send-off

Five of six local lawmakers attend luncheon ahead of 60-day legislative session

The Daily World file photo Marine expert Alan Rammer, pictured at his booth at a past Beachcombers’ Fun Fair in Ocean Shores.

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Beachcombers and Glass Float Expo founder stepping down

Longtime WDFW veteran Alan Rammer brought popular event to the coast in 1985

Clarence Edwin “Ed” Asher's remains were found in Taholah in 2006.

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Two John Does identified after decades of uncertainty

The Grays Harbor County Coroner’s Office and the King County Medical Examiner team with Othram to identify remains…