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CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Wellness Checks
• Just after 7:20 a.m. on March 27, officers were asked to check on a man panhandling in the 900 block of Harrison Avenue who …
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3/29/23
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Merida the Bitless, as she’s known on social media, or Merida to her owner Kirstina Lotz, earned accolades from five different national and international organizations involved in both …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/29/23
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The Mossyrock School District is accepting applications for the position of superintendent to replace Larry Markuson, who served as superintendent for the past two years and will be resigning at the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/29/23
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The Thurston County Washington State University (WSU) extension office is offering a multi-day intensive grazing school from April 21 to April 23 at the Skookumchuck Grange in Tenino, according to a …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/29/23
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The first order of business during the Chehalis City Council’s Monday night meeting this week was a proclamation declaring April to be Child Abuse Awareness Month in the city.
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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3/29/23
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With less than a month until the Centralia School District’s levy proposal faces voters a second time, school board members and district staff are encouraging community members to reach out …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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3/29/23
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No injuries were reported in a fire that damaged an outbuilding of DS Creative Creations on the corner of Sergeant and North Military roads in Winlock on Monday.
Firefighters with Lewis County …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/29/23
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Earlier this month, Centralia Mayor Kelly Smith Johnston brought to light a shop in downtown Centralia with a sign and other imagery advertising the Asatru Folk Assembly, or AFA.
The group is …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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3/29/23
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Chehalis Basin Board member J. Vander Stoep was at Centralia City Hall Tuesday night for a workshop with the city council discussing flood flow analysis done on the Chehalis River showing effects if …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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3/29/23
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Lewis County Auditor Larry Grove, 69, suffered a severe heart attack at about 9 p.m. on Friday and was transported to Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia.
As of Wednesday morning, Grove had …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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3/29/23
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The Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of Commerce held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Dirty Thumb Nursery on Tuesday. After running the nursery — marked by the iconic red barn welcoming westward drivers …
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3/29/23
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The number of people counted in Thurston County's 2023 homeless census increased compared to 2022, but several factors still likely mean the official numbers are an undercount.
Preliminary data …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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3/29/23
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Black smoke was billowing over the Centralia skies on Tuesday night as law enforcement, the Riverside Fire Authority and other agencies responded to a blaze at Blakeslee Junction, the largest …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/28/23
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A former Morton resident was charged with first-degree child molestation in Lewis County Superior Court earlier this month for allegedly sexually assaulting a child in 2018.
The Chronicle …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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3/28/23
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A man from the Rochester area has been missing since March 9, and the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public for information.
Stephen Barton, 54, disappeared from his …
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By Ty Vinson / The Olympian
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3/28/23
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Bail for a woman accused of shoplifting from a Centralia business, hitting an employee with a stolen car and leading law enforcement on a pursuit Sunday was set at $50,000 in Lewis County Superior …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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3/28/23
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A woman accused of driving into a Centralia home, injuring a resident, while drunk early Saturday morning pleaded not guilty to vehicular assault and hit-and-run charges in Lewis County Superior …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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3/28/23
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A second suspect has been convicted in Grays Harbor Superior Court following the June 2022 theft of an $80,000 skid-steer loader at Oakville High School, according to a news release from the Grays …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/28/23
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Thurston County's aging population needs more care and that's factoring into delays for emergency services, officials say.
Calls for emergency medical services (EMS) increased from 26,570 in …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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3/28/23
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A federal grand jury has indicted 27 people, many with ties to the "Aryan Family" white supremacist prison gang, for drug trafficking, prosecutors said Monday.
Two dozen of those indicted are …
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Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times
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3/28/23
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