Incumbent Chehalis School District Director District 5 candidate J. Vander Stoep was leading his three challengers by a landslide in preliminary counts for the primary election released Tuesday …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/1/23
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Two of the three candidates running for a spot on the Morton City Council will advance from the Aug. 1 primary election to the general election in November.
With just 191 total votes turned in …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/1/23
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The results of the Tuesday, Aug. 1, primary election for Lewis County races can be found here: https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20230801/lewis/
For Thurston County results, visit …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/1/23
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After a tentative partnership was announced in April, the Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad will not operate steam train excursions from Chehalis this summer, the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Museum …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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8/1/23
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The Criminal Justice Training Commission’s investigation into former Morton Police Chief Roger Morningstar has turned up evidence Morningstar sexually harassed fellow employees and citizens at …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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8/1/23
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During a workshop on Monday, July 24, City of Chehalis councilors and staff discussed projects necessary to meet water demand as development increases in Chehalis’ southern urban growth area …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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7/31/23
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The community’s website aptly calls Ryderwood “the Village in the Woods.”
At the northwest edge of Cowlitz County to the south of Vader, the town has been a retirement …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/31/23
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The subject of a manhunt in Centralia on Friday afternoon remains at large after evading capture.
On Friday, law enforcement officers searched for the suspected driver of a stolen vehicle …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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7/31/23
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Cutting the cheese, in this case, has far from stinky implications.
Cooper Cummings, a 2023 champion of Gloucester, England’s “Cheese Roll” competition, a race down steep …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/31/23
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The suspected driver of a vehicle that tore through George Washington Park in Centralia last week has been arrested and faces charges in Lewis County Superior Court.
Lorenzo Gilbert …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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7/31/23
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Bail has been set at $50,000 for a Chehalis man accused of stealing a generator from a Longview residence and selling it in Centralia in April, then fraudulently manufacturing IDs of real people and …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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7/31/23
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CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Indecent exposure
• Officers were dispatched just before 8:35 a.m. on July 28 to a report of a homeless woman walking through a residential …
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7/31/23
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Billy Frank Jr. was arrested over 50 times trying to preserve his and his tribe's treaty right to fish in their ancestral waters.
Now, the legendary Nisqually elder who was a central figure in …
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By Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times
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7/31/23
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East Lewis County residents in need of support from the Washington state Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) will have access to the department’s Mobile Community Services Office at …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/31/23
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The summer of 2023 is only halfway over, yet low spring rainfall has resulted in abnormally dry conditions in the Pacific Northwest, noted a July 27 news release from the U.S. Forest Service.
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/31/23
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By The Chronicle staff
Born in Aberdeen on July 6, 1919, Radioman Third Class Frank Samuel Hoag Jr. died on Dec. 7, 1941, when the ship he was on, the U.S.S. Oklahoma, capsized during the …
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7/31/23
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The Southwest Washington Fair theme for 2023 is “Bee Friendly! Bee at the Fair!”
Because craft books and the internet are stocked full of bee-themed craft patterns, exhibitors are …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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7/31/23
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As Rose Vanderhoof trudged up Mount Rainier, the sun started coming up.
Lightning and dark clouds dissipated in the distance. More than 12,000 feet above sea level, she'd layered up with a puffy …
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Aviva Bechky / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/23
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