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The Lewis County Division of Emergency Management is updating the county’s Hazard Mitigation Plan.
The plan is meant to identify risks and ways to minimize damage from natural …
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By Matthew Zylstra / matthew@chronline.com
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5/17/23
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Whether we like it or not, reading is an essential part of daily life as an adult and a key building block for learning in school.
Knowing that and expecting her reading requirements to …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/17/23
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With Memorial Day now less than two weeks away, members of the Bricklayers Local 1 Washington and Alaska union are volunteering their time and labor to clean and restore both the Freedom Walk War …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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5/17/23
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Looking for a new pair of Texas-made Fenoglio boots, to get your cowboy hat cleaned or maybe just a nice western shirt to wear out on weekends? The new Saddle Bum Western Store in downtown Centralia …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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5/17/23
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Brandy Clark has lived in Nashville so long that most people outside her home state of Washington don't realize the decorated singer-songwriter hails from the Pacific Northwest. But that's about to …
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Michael Rietmulder / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/17/23
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The Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District on Tuesday clarified that the Beaverton teen who died Friday off the coast of Cannon Beach had been wading in knee-deep tides not swimming when a rip …
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Beth Slovic / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/17/23
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Rural residents in the three locations in Pierce and Thurston counties identified as possible sites for a new airport larger than Sea-Tac Airport can rest easy: No airport is coming their way.
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Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/17/23
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A 3-year-old boy died Thursday, more than three weeks after he was shot in the head and taken to a Tukwila fire station by a family member.
The child, Finesse Ezell, was shot in a residence in …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/17/23
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Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz and her supporters gathered for a news conference Monday on the Seattle waterfront to tout her political record as the wide-open 2024 Washington gubernatorial …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/17/23
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Olympia-based Washington State Employees Credit Union has completed its merger with State Highway Credit Union.
With this week's merger, which was announced earlier this year, WSECU increases …
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Thomas Clouse / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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5/17/23
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A man was arrested after stealing a van with two children aboard from Hoquiam on Monday morning.
Anthony Dennis Hurley, 34, of Aberdeen, was booked into the county jail on charges of …
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Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World (TNS)
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5/17/23
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WINTHROP, Wash. — On a subfreezing morning in March, Carmen Vanbianchi is crouched in the snow, cramming chunks of roadkill deer into a pouch she calls her meat purse.
She wrenches the …
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Sandi Doughton / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/17/23
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Gov. Jay Inslee vetoed a bill Monday that would have required the state to ask drivers to volunteer their odometer readings, a precursor to a long-discussed and still theoretical tax on miles …
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David Kroman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/16/23
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OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law Tuesday afternoon that will raise the penalty for drug possession to a gross misdemeanor and criminalize public drug use.
Earlier in the …
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Claire Withycombe / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/16/23
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A 30-year-old man shot and killed two people early Monday in a Lakewood apartment the day after his uncle died after overdosing in the same unit, according to charging documents.
Ontario Lavell …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune (TNS)
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5/16/23
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A husband and wife got the scare of their lives when a man approached them and threatened to take their car and the woman for the night, according to Olympia police.
About 11 p.m. Friday, May …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/16/23
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No one has been arrested for killing a dog the afternoon of May 7 in Olympia, although detectives continue to investigate the incident, a spokesman for police said Tuesday.
Olympia police also …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/16/23
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In a typical week, the bulk of the Centralia Police Department’s call volume pertains to security issues at local businesses, with reports ranging from theft to a person acting unusual or …
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By Emily Fitzgerald /emily@chronline.com
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5/16/23
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Bail has been set at $100,000 for a Pacific Beach man accused of fleeing from Centralia police officers at high speeds in a stolen vehicle on Monday before crashing the vehicle in Thurston …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/16/23
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A call reporting a man was slumped behind the wheel of a pickup truck in Centralia on Monday resulted in officers recovering a vehicle that was stolen from a local construction company in …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/16/23
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