Overstock.com Eyes Lease at Satsop Business Park
Commissioners at the Port of Grays Harbor today will decide on a lease agreement with the online retailer Overstock.com. The Satsop Business Park may once again have a call center at the base of the...
View ArticleGrays Harbor Community Foundation Awards 7th Street Theatre $50,000 Endowment...
The Grays Harbor Community Foundation is pleased to announce 7th Street Theatre Association as the recipient of a $50,000 endowment grant. The Foundation considered several organizations that had...
View ArticleLeaving a Lasting Legacy in South Beach With The Grays Harbor Community...
Arnold and Marianna Perttula, lifetime Grays Harbor residents, recently gifted the Foundation a significant donation to support Ocosta High School graduates. Before their passing, the Perttula’s...
View ArticleLisa Smith Selected for Executive Director Position at Grays Harbor College...
Harbor native Lisa J. Smith has been named the new Executive Director of the Grays Harbor College Foundation, as well as GHC’s Director of College Development. She assumes the dual jobs left vacant by...
View ArticleLisa J. Smith Named for Two Positions at Grays Harbor College
Submitted by Grays Harbor College Harbor native Lisa J. Smith has been named the new Executive Director of the Grays Harbor College Foundation, as well as GHC’s Director of College Development. She...
View ArticleGrays Harbor College Foundation Awards Nearly $600,000 to Local Students
The Grays Harbor College Foundation presented 300 scholarships last week, totaling nearly $600,000 in financial support for those enrolling at GHC for the 2017-18 school year. Many individual donors,...
View ArticleGrays Harbor’s Tall Ships Sail into Tacoma
Few are familiar with the term “tall ship”, but the Washington-based nonprofit Grays Harbor Historical Seaport is on a mission to change that. Their historic sailing ships, the Lady Washington and...
View ArticleTime For A Girl’s Night Out at Turning Pointe’s Fourth Annual Power of the...
Turning Pointe Domestic Violence Shelter will host their fourth annual Power of the Purse Event on Friday November 4th, from 5:00-7:30 P.M. at the Little Creek Casino Resort Event Center. After the...
View ArticleGrays Harbor Tall Ships Sail into Friday Harbor
Few are familiar with the term “tall ship”, but the Washington-based nonprofit Grays Harbor Historical Seaport is on a mission to change that. Their historic sailing ships, the Lady Washington and...
View ArticleAGP Expansion in Aberdeen, SD Could Mean Expansion in Aberdeen, WA
Expansion in another Aberdeen could mean more construction for the Port of Grays Harbor in the coming years. Gary Nelson, Executive Director at the port, said on coffeetalk last week, “AGP broke ground...
View ArticleMining Company BHP Billiton Eyes Port of Grays Harbor For Export Facility
A new company is checking out the Port of Grays Harbor for a possible potash export business. However, BHP Billiton is also coming out of a 7-year relationship that failed to produce that site at the...
View ArticleGrays Harbor Community Foundation Awards Over $225-Thousand Through Community...
The Grays Harbor Community Foundation is pleased to invest $228,150 into the community through our second cycle Community Building Grants program. A press release from the foundation said that this...
View ArticleMike Folkers selected as Director of Finance and Administration at Port of...
The Port of Grays Harbor is pleased to announce that Mike Folkers will be joining the senior management team as the new Director of Finance and Administration, replacing current Director of Finance...
View ArticlePUD Commissioner elected to Energy Northwest Executive Board
Grays Harbor PUD Board of Commissioners President Arie Callaghan has been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of Energy Northwest, a public power consortium formed by the state Legislature and...
View ArticleEcology Appoints McNamara Doyle to Office of Chehalis Basin director
Washington Department of Ecology Director Maia Bellon has named Andrea McNamara Doyle as the first director of the Office of Chehalis Basin. This office oversees the state’s effort to address...
View ArticleAberdeen Union Supporting Local Teacher’s Pay Raises at School Board Meeting
The Aberdeen Education Association continues to seek support for local teachers as talks remain on hold until August 15th, at their request. They recently submitted a press release claiming that while...
View ArticlePort of Grays Harbor to Purchase former WSDOT Pontoon Casting Basin
After being the successful low bidder on the former Pontoon Casting Basin at the Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) surplus property auction last week, the Port of Grays Harbor...
View ArticlePort and Hoquiam agree on lease option of City site as part of proposed...
At the September 11, 2018, Commission meeting the Port of Grays Harbor Commission authorized Executive Director Gary Nelson to sign an Option to Lease 85 acres of property adjacent to port-owned Marine...
View ArticleGrays Harbor College Welcomes New Trustee Astrid Aveledo
Joining Grays Harbor College’s Board of Trustees is Astrid Aveledo, who serves as executive director for the Dispute Resolution Center of Grays Harbor & Pacific Counties. The appointment was...
View ArticleGrays Harbor PUD employee honored by Washington PUD Association
On July 26th Grays Harbor PUD Customer Service Collector Helen Berglund heard a call for help. On Thursday, her response to that call earned her the Washington Public Utility District Association’s...
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