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    DNR holding public listening session on Wildfire Hazard Mapping in Aberdeen
    DNR holding public listening session on Wildfire Hazard...
    By The Daily World • January 19, 2026 1:30 am

    The public listening session is scheduled for Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. at the Rotary Log Pavilion

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    Aberdeen repeals EMS utility rate increase for now
    Aberdeen repeals EMS utility rate increase for now
    By Jerry Knaak The Daily World • January 19, 2026 1:30 am

    Public hearing expected in March, city council to consider previous rate increase recommendation

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    The city of Aberdeen recently abandoned plans to use this property at 118 W. Wishkah as a museum. (Jerry Knaak / The Day World)
    Aberdeen seeks volunteer museum collections manager
    By Jerry Knaak The Daily World • January 19, 2026 1:30 am

    The city of Aberdeen is seeking a qualified volunteer or pro bono professional or organization to serve as a museum…

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An angler casts for winter steelhead while fishing an undisclosed river on the Olympic Peninsula.
    Olympic Peninsula steelhead shake off potential federal ESA...
    By Michael Carman Peninsula Daily News • January 19, 2026 1:30 am

    The steelhead population includes all steelhead runs from the Lyre River near Joyce to the Moclips River

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    Rep. Jim Walsh
R-Aberdeen
    Energy subsidy bill ‘warps meaning of affordability’
    By Carleen Johnson The Center Square • January 19, 2026 1:30 am

    Legislation that would provide large subsidies for power hookup to Washington industries focusing on alternative energy options cleared the state…

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    Luke Whittaker photos / Chinook Observer
South Bend Products crew Graesen Flemming, near, and Carlos Hernandez offload Dungeness at the Port of Peninsula.
    Willapa Bay blues
    By Luke Whittaker Chinook Observer • January 19, 2026 1:30 am

    Dungeness landings lag for Willapa crabbers

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McKenzie Cotey performs a flute solo during the Grays Harbor College Jazz Festival on Thursday.
    Smooth vibes only at Grays Harbor College Jazz...
    By The Daily World • January 16, 2026 1:30 am

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

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    The newly minted 2026 Aberdeen City Council (Jerry Knaak / The Daily World)
    Grays Harbor city councils get off to a...
    By Jerry Knaak and Andrea Watts The Daily World • January 16, 2026 1:30 am

    Aberdeen

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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.
    Checking in on the Chehalis Basin restoration projects
    By Andrea Watts The Daily World • January 16, 2026 1:30 am

    Chehalis Basin Fisheries Task Force restoration projects in East Grays Harbor County improved fish passage and kept water flowing during December’s atmospheric rivers

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    Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau
Olympic National Park.
    Olympic National Park had more than 3.6M visitors...
    By Emily Hanson Peninsula Daily News • January 16, 2026 1:30 am

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

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    Talk on pellet plant problems set for Monday
    Talk on pellet plant problems set for Monday
    By Andrea Watts The Daily World • January 16, 2026 1:30 am

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

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    World gone by
    World gone by
    January 16, 2026 1:30 am

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

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    Harbor Happenings
    Harbor Happenings
    By The Daily World • January 16, 2026 1:30 am

    Find out what’s happening in and around Grays Harbor …

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