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CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
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• A case of harassment, occurring via cell phone, was reported in the 100 block of North Gold Street just before 11:50 a.m. on Dec. 10. This case …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/12/25
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• MARTIN ELLSON DEFFENDALL, 67, Rochester, died Dec. 8 at his residence. Arrangements are under the care of Funeral Alternatives of Washington.
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12/12/25
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Nicholas Denham has again been found guilty for the aggravated first-degree murder of his former girlfriend, Charlene Van Auken, and her 4-year-old daughter, Zoey Peetz, in 2020.
A sentencing …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/12/25
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I don’t even know where to begin, because there really aren’t words big enough to fully capture what we saw unfold in Lewis County over these past days.
What I do know is this: …
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By Sean Swope / Lewis County commissioner
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12/12/25
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In this installment of A Look Back in Time, the Friday, Dec. 13, 1935, edition of The Chronicle featured a story about Washington National Guard 41st Tank Company commander Captain A.S. Kresky …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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12/12/25
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Lewis County staff and the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) are transitioning their focus toward the recovery phase of this month’s flooding as the atmospheric river begins to die down.
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylanr@chronline.com
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12/12/25
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Lewis County has established a dedicated damage assessment hotline for residents whose homes or properties were affected by recent flooding.
Flood-impacted community members are asked to call …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/12/25
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Nicholaus Martin, a 2014 Centralia High School graduate and longtime resident of the Hub City, is accomplishing a lifelong dream of opening a chiropractic clinic in Lewis County.
He founded …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylanr@chronline.com
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12/12/25
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Thurston County has secured more than $1.25 million in combined federal and state funding to construct the Thurston County Fairgrounds Evacuation and Agricultural Center (TCF-EVAC), the county …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/12/25
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With 2025 coming to a close, members of the Toledo City Council approved the South Lewis County community’s budget for 2026 during its first regular meeting of December following the …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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12/12/25
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A gym was constructed in 1939 at 403 N. Nenant St. in Bucoda.
For years now, the historic building has been home to the Boo-Coda Spook-Tacular Haunted House during the South Thurston County …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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12/12/25
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A man accused of breaking into the vacant First Street Grocery Store in Centralia in October has been arrested.
Bail is set at $20,000 for Jonathan Patrick Church, 32, of Centralia.
He was …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/12/25
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Update: Gov. Bob Ferguson offered the following statement on Washington's request for federal emergency assistance on Friday morning after the publication of this article: "I just received a phone …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/12/25
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Weyerhaeuser’s Rochester Nursery ships about five to six million seedlings to Christmas tree growers across the U.S. and Canada every year, Weyerhaeuser Senior Communications Manager Matt …
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Photos and captions courtesy of Weyerhaeuser Senior Communications Manager Matt Peterson
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12/12/25
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A 63-year-old man suspected in a double homicide on Herron Island from Thursday was arrested in a Kent motel, according to Pierce County deputies. He was taken to a hospital with what deputies said …
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Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)
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12/12/25
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Senators on Thursday blocked two bills, one supported entirely by Republicans and the other mainly by Democrats, intended to address health insurance prices that now seem all but certain to increase …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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12/12/25
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While the Skagit Valley and other areas across Western Washington were being inundated with floodwaters, a federal judge ruled Thursday against the Trump administration's efforts to shut down an …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/12/25
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Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, asserted Thursday that immigrants allowed into the U.S. during the Biden administration are the nation's top terrorism threat.
Kent, …
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/12/25
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Freddie Lane, an enrolled member of Lummi Nation, has watched his people's lands flood since his childhood on the Whatcom County reservation.
Around the world, Indigenous people have their flood …
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Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/12/25
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The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe is cautioning the public against visiting Snoqualmie Falls, which is roaring as the Snoqualmie River floods.
The river experienced major flooding — the highest …
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Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/12/25
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