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Record crab price, lower volume: Commercial crabbing commences amid steep competition
LONG BEACH PENINSULA — The 2025 Washington commercial crab season is officially in full swing, with several local ...
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OP Area Chamber gets 2025 rolling with enthusiastic exec board
OCEAN PARK — The Ocean Park Area Chamber of Commerce held their first 2025 membership meeting on Jan. ...
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Company making fiber optic progress on peninsula
LONG BEACH — WWEST Communications now has fiber optics in place from north of Pioneer Road to the ...
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Crabbers get cracking: Optimism abounds after long delay
ILWACO — “You want an oily fish, mackerel is nice and oily,” said commercial fisherman Jerry Matzen III ...
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Bulkhead work underway at port
ILWACO — Work is underway to replace the Port of Ilwaco’s failing east bulkhead in its commercial fishing ...
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Commercial crab season OK’d for Jan. 15
ILWACO — King-sized trucks rumbled into life this week hauling tall stacks of rigged crab pots as word ...
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Jimmy Carter, the last president to farm, dies at 100
Jimmy Carter’s journey from a small farm to the White House was a testament to the potential within ...
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Crabbing delay extended through Jan. 15
ILWACO — Commercial Dungeness crab season is being delayed until at least Jan. 15 after sampling found crab ...
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Pacific County in pictures: A look back on 2024
PACIFIC COUNTY — Distilled from thousands of photographs taken over the past year, Chinook Observer photographer Luke Whittaker ...
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‘We’re proud to be here’: The Sandbar opens in Long Beach
LONG BEACH — The peninsula’s newest restaurant and bar has officially opened its doors after years of work ...