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Clayton Franke / The Daily World Olivia Britain, right, a green crab crew member with the Grays Harbor Conservation District, offloads a trap carrying invasive green crab at the Quinault Marina in Ocean Shores on April 11. The conservation district, along with two state agencies, combined to pull more than 2,100 of the harmful crab from the marina last week.

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Trapping for harmful green crab continues in Grays Harbor, elsewhere

More than 2K crab removed from Quinault Marina during three-day, multi-agency effort

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Laying out complex, controversial step of North Shore Levee Project

Homeowners living in North Aberdeen near Wishkah River are angry about the city of Aberdeen’s lack of communication…

Bosun Kate Miller-Vickers helps ready the yards of the Lady Washington for the 2024 sailing season. (Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World)

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Sailors aloft: Lady Washington readies for sailing season

There’s more to it than casting off the lines and going

Michael Wagar / The Daily World A steady stream of people inspected a dead gray whale beached on the Pacific Ocean Wednesday afternoon, as a dog sniffs away. You can see the Quinault casino at the top far right.

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Dead gray whale beached near Ocean City

First of 2024; feds recently declared end to four-year mortality event after strandings dropped

John Reed / North Beach TV Vivian Dahlin, who runs Operation Dog Rescue, a free service for finding lost pets based in Ocean Shores, stands next to one of her cage traps during a video shoot with North Beach TV in 2023. Dahlin says the use of traps baited with food, which are strictly prohibited under city code, are the most effective way to rescue lost dogs.

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Furry foul: Ocean Shores could flip trapping ban following dog rescuer citation

Live trapping for lost dogs puts animals and people in danger, wildlife official warns

Courtesy photo / John Shaw A pair of guests make their way down Westport beach using tracked mobility chairs from David’s Chair, a nonprofit partnering with the city to help bring the beach to more people.

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Nonprofit brings tracked mobility chairs to Westport

A day at the beach is now in reach

Clayton Franke / The Daily World Ken Stevens, a Quinault tribal elder and former Taholah School Board member, peers into a virtual reality headset at the Taholah School Library on April 6 as Bill Adams, current school board member, looks on. As part of an open house to get ideas for the new planned Taholah school, the headset gave Stevens a virtual tour of the recently-constructed Toledo High School, which was designed by the same firm the district hired in Taholah.

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Taholah starts to craft vision for new school on higher ground

Leading the way in seismic safety program, community sees bright future for Chitwhins

Courtesy of Brady Dier Mark Smalley, an engineer for Rayonier, leads a field trip April 5 as part of the Washington State Society of American Foresters’ annual meeting, which took place at Grays Harbor College.

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Forestry leaders talk 50 years of forest practices

1974 Forest Practices Act laid foundation for logging rules in Washington’s forests

Matthew N. Wells / The Daily World This was part of the scene on Friday night, when people paid their respects to the late Kurt Cobain, the fallen grunge music icon who grew up in Aberdeen, on the 30th anniversary of Cobain’s death.

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Rest in peace, Kurt

Kurt Cobain once wrote the lyric “With the lights out, it’s less dangerous.” On Friday night, that lyric…

Health Management Associates This pie chart, which was included in the youth “third spaces” report completed for Grays Harbor County Public Health, shows results of a survey that polled Harbor youth on where they hang out other than school or their homes.

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Report gathers info on hangouts for Harbor youth

Healthy “third spaces” are key tool for preventing mental health, substance use issues

Erin Schrieber Parent educators Marisela Martinez and Nikki Gwin stand next to diapers at the Grays Harbor County Public Health building in Aberdeen set to be delivered to the community through the health department’s new diaper bank network.

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In diaper pinch, county rolls out network of supply

Health department working with partners to deliver diapers across Grays Harbor

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit against Washington State Parks March 29 aiming to stop the proposed Westport Golf Links project, which would construct a lodge and Scottish-style links golf course in Westport Light State Park. (Westport Links)

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Environmental groups sue state to halt Westport golf proposal

Suit claims settlement with old golf developers prohibits wetland fill at Westport Light State Park

Darrell Westmoreland It takes a lot of timing and coordination to plan community-wide events such as Rain Glow. It’s why Dani Bacon, Bette Worth and Bobbi McCracken are organizing a community events forum for April 27 inside the Side One Studios building — 202 S. K St., in Aberdeen. In this photo, people lined up for tickets to a past Rain Glow Festival in downtown Aberdeen. Hundreds explored various “worlds” set up by volunteers.

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Collaborating for Community Impact

It takes a long time to plan and coordinate a community event, and with that there are a…