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It seems like this past year has just been a blur.
I’ve barely gotten used to writing 2025, yet here we are.
The beginning of each new year is an opportunity to start over and look …
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By John McCroskey / For The Chronicle
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12/29/25
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Editor’s note: This is the second installation of a profile of Centralia’s Rev. Alta Smith by Chronicle columnist Julie McDonald. To read the first installment, visit https://tinyurl.com/bde7ahju …
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12/29/25
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A few years ago in Washington Hall at Centralia College, Rev. Alta Smith swapped one hat for another, including a long white wig, as she spoke of the many roles her friend Doris Wood-Brumsickle has …
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Commentary by Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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12/22/25
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Adults tend to remember Christmas by what we provide.
Children remember it by how it felt.
They don’t catalogue the cost of the gifts or the size of the tree. They don’t remember …
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By Richard Stride
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12/22/25
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On a cold December morning in Olympia, Ebenezer Scrounge sat hunched over his ledger inside Scrounge & Austerity, his counting house. He counted taxes. He counted regulations. He counted every …
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By Zac Eckstein
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12/22/25
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Every election season produces a familiar ritual. Candidates run on ideas, critiques, promises and energy. Voters choose. Ballots are counted. And then, almost overnight, something profound happens.
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By Wayne Fournier
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12/22/25
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This week, The Chronicle celebrated its new digs, and I was happy to be there to celebrate vibrant local family ownership and its support that gives our community a now-rare example of a thriving …
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Commentary by Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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12/19/25
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On the eighth day of Christmas, according to the popular holiday song, the gift was eight maids a-milking.
I can’t say if milking a cow would qualify as a taxable “live presentation” …
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Commentary by Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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12/19/25
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Sometimes living in the small towns of Lewis County really does feel like a Hallmark movie.
Last Friday, for instance, I joined a few dozen other festive, bundled-up folks in a carol singalong …
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Commentary by Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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12/17/25
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Earlier this year, while shopping in the produce department of a grocery store, I ran into a longtime friend I met years ago during the Weigh Down Workshop. I’m glad I wasn’t shopping in …
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Commentary by Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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12/15/25
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As Lewis County moves from emergency response into recovery following last week’s flooding, I want to extend my sincere appreciation to the many teams, volunteers and neighbors who have stepped …
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12/15/25
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Some people carry the past with them in a way that feels like an unexpected blessing — an open doorway into a world shaped by hard work, faithfulness and the kind of grit that doesn’t …
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By Richard Stride
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12/15/25
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Many in our state are probably too busy dealing with the effects of the latest “atmospheric river” to think about how winter will soon bring its own weather challenges.
State …
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By Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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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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Every December, something important happens in democracies that we rarely pause to appreciate.
Across the country, leaders step down. Seats change hands. New voices arrive as experienced ones …
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By Wayne Fournier
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12/10/25
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Every January, when most of Lewis County is bundled up indoors with hot coffee and good intentions, a different kind of warmth rises from the icy waters of Mayfield Lake — community spirit.
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12/10/25
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Across the country, raising the minimum wage continues to be a topic of conversation. Some claim that raising the minimum wage to $20 would help both low-income employees as well as employers. Though …
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By Sam Cardwell / Mountain States Policy Center
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12/10/25
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I read with interest the announcement from the Port of Chehalis on Wednesday that Amazon wants to buy land to build an operations center that would employ between 500 and 1,000 workers.
Although …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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12/8/25
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Editor’s note: Last month, Winlock area resident Spencer Hoven shared her story with The Chronicle’s Facebook followers about a beloved rocking horse that had been mistakenly donated to a …
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12/8/25
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All across our state, every day, employers make big, positive differences in their communities. We see that in the people they employ, the products and services they produce, and in more impressive …
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By Kris Johnson / Association of Washington Business
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12/8/25
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