Satsop News

“It's like psychological warfare”

Posted yesterday at 11:59 am by Rick Anderson The old N-tower A quarter century after our tax dollars disappeared in the nuclear power-generating debacle we know as "Whoops," there will be light at Satsop. via The Daily Weekly

“I'm sorry we couldn't keep them local, but I'm very excited to keep them in our region”

A steel tank manufacturer on West Bay Drive plans to move to Grays Harbor County in the next six months but has extended its lease with South Sound developer Tri Vo, the company's new landlord. via The Olympian

“Roughly two weeks after the appeal, we were able to sit down”

The future of a steel tank manufacturing company that wants to move into the WPPSS-era Turbine Building at the Satsop Development Park is still up in the air, three weeks after a county advisory board suggested ... via Daily World

“We started loading electricity onto the grid”

A 650-megawatt gas-fired power plant has passed its first operational test and may begin generating electricity commercially this spring, Grays Harbor County commissioners have been told. via Oregonlive.com

“We'll be back in five minutes”

The future plans of an Olympia steel tank manufacturing company that wants to move into a WPPSS-era Turbine Building at the Satsop Development Park are on hold pending an outbreak of diplomacy. via Daily World

“We also lost one to a seal and had a couple other good fish on we lost. On Friday we went back and caught two in the first hour up to 7 pounds and then lost another to a seal.”

Wild steelhead are beginning to move into Western Washington rivers, and just maybe they'll help freshen up what's been a stinker of a winter-run season. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“I guess I just have a little more faith in my community than this”

Grays Harbor Fire District 5 commissioners took steps Monday night they hope will stave off bankruptcy for the district. via Daily World

“This company is working with a deadline here and we've had a heck of a long time to straighten this out”

An Olympia-based manufacturer of steel containers and tanks could be forced to look elsewhere if the Satsop Development Park is unable to secure timely permits to renovate a WPPSS-era building at the sprawling ... via Daily World

“It's been a multitude of things over the last few years that got us where we're at”

Voices and recriminations were raised Monday evening during a meeting of the Grays Harbor Fire District 5 Board of Commissioners. via Daily World

Late season salmon and midwinter steelhead angling ranges from poor to miserable on a lot of streams, but normal or better on others. via The Chronicle, Centralia, WA

“This was not an easy decision for me, but I feel it is the right decision at the right time”

Saying he wants to spend more time with his family, County Commissioner Bob Beerbower of Elma will not seek re-election this year. via Daily World

“Guys in area 10 are still doing good, at Kingston and Jeff Head, and area 8-2 has fish when we've been able to get there, so I think there certainly should be some fish in area 9 in the middle, too”

The winter steelhead season in Western Washington is showing signs of life despite miserable returns of hatchery fish in many rivers. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“But we want to be able to serve the community for a long time to come. Right now, though, we're just trying to get their feedback and see what everybody says.”

Leaders of Mark Reed Hospital will hold a community meeting in Elma on Tuesday night to discuss the future of the hospital and its health care district. via Daily World

A week after that terrible storm pelted the coast, Olympic Peninsula, and Chehalis basin, most rivers are still too high to fish, but others are either fishable or will be soon. via The Chronicle, Centralia, WA

“We've just got a woodstove, so we have heat”

After two days of violent wind and heavy rain in Western Washington, residents of Aberdeen and outlying Grays Harbor County prepared for a cold, five-day wait without power and with a limited supply of ... via The Olympian

“The rest of the week will seem benign by comparison”

Efforts resumed today to rescue people from flood-stricken homes in Southwest Washington after Monday's regionwide storm killed two, severed major highways, isolated communities and closed scores of roads and ... via The Seattle Times

“They were yelling: 'If you're not coming out now, we're leaving,'”

Gov. Chris Gregoire said Coast Guard and Navy helicopters have rescued some 300 people from flooded areas of Western Washington ravaged by fierce storms that killed five people and shut down a stretch of ... via NWCN.com

“It's larger, it crested higher, it happened a lot faster”

Hundreds of residents fled their homes this week after a fierce storm battered the Pacific Northwest, killing at least five people and leading to widespread flooding that shut down a stretch of Interstate 5. ... via NWCN.com

The National Weather Service has issued flood warnings for a number of rivers in Western Washington because of the weekend's heavy rain. via KCPQ

“That worries me because, to me, it is not sustainable”

The resilient housing wave that kept Washington surfing above the country's economic slowdown appears to have just washed to shore. via Tri-cityherald.com