In a statement released last Wednesday, state Senate Republican Leader John Braun, R-Centralia, on Senate Bill 5352, which amends a law passed in 2021 to grant law enforcement a greater ability to …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/13/23
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The Southwest Washington Dance Center has partnered with the Centralia College Foundation to host “A Gala For The Arts,” a reception and performance at the Corbet Theatre on Saturday, …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/13/23
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CHEHALIS POLICE DEPARTMENT
Arson
• A case of arson reported in the 200 block of Southwest First Street just before 8:30 a.m. on March 10 is under investigation.
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/13/23
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As a teenager, Ada van Esso survived two years in Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Nazi death camp in Poland, and weighed only 60 pounds when she left Ravensbrück concentration camp for Sweden.
Hans van …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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3/13/23
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“It’s much more agreeable to offend and later ask for forgiveness than to be offended and grant forgiveness,” Friedrich Nietzsche once said.
I would agree, …
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3/13/23
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This is my response to the letter to the editor condemning Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez for voting for the IRS to hire 87,000 agents.
I applaud Marie because she read the facts …
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3/13/23
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It’s odd many well educated people can’t grasp the voters of Lewis County are not as dumb as our politicians and educators think. The failures of the school levies are their fault. Many …
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3/13/23
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A recent letter from Ray Anderson regarding the constitutionality of school prayer fails to ask or answer what is always the most important question: whose prayer will be said?
Am I to …
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3/13/23
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I make note that your paper has removed the Dilbert comic and replaced it.
I in no way agree with or condone the statements that were made by the creator of the Dilbert comic.
It is your …
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3/13/23
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Chad Taylor, the owner and publisher of The Chronicle, occasionally publishes a musings column in The Chronicle, the newspaper he bought.
In a recent column about homelessness, Mr. Taylor mused …
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3/13/23
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About nine years ago, I was steadfastly tribal in my political leanings and wanted to be liked and accepted by my peers. During this time, almost everyone I perceived as being successful, worldly and …
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3/13/23
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The Chehalis Police Department is investigating after the house at 265 SW First St. in Chehalis, which caught fire on Thursday, went up in flames again Friday morning.
Two adult miniature …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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3/13/23
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The Mill Town Smokehouse will hold a monthly Bowl-a-Thon on March 19 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 834 Westlake Ave. in Morton.
Bowl-a-Thon is sponsored by the Morton Seniors Advisory Board, …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/13/23
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As his final day draws near, Lewis County Manager Erik Martin will be replaced in the interim with Lewis County Chief of Internal Services Steve Wohld, if the commissioners pass a resolution on the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/13/23
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House Bill 1777 was passed unanimously by the state House last Wednesday. The bill, which deals with financing for school capital projects, was cosponsored by state Rep. Joel McEntire, R-Cathlamet, …
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By Matthew Zylstra / matthew@chronline.com
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3/13/23
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The joint cross-county route run by RiverCities Transit and Twin Transit is coming to an end after Twin Transit expanded its service to Kelso.
Twin Transit, the Lewis County-based public transit …
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By Brennen Kauffman / The Daily News
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3/13/23
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While the war in Ukraine rages into its second year and becomes increasingly politicized in the United States, Dr. Patrick Jung, who grew up in Oakville, has returned from spending three months …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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3/13/23
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To add upcoming events to the Community Calendar, email reporter Matthew Zylstra at matthew@chronline.com.
Lewis County Stream Team Tree Planting Party
March 14 at Olive Branch Ranch from …
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3/13/23
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Now that tears have dried after the Evergreen Playhouse’s performance of Anne Frank last month, visitors to the Centralia venue can trade sorrow for laughter during a viewing of the PG-13 farce …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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3/13/23
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When someone broke into a Sikh cultural center in Federal Way, smashed up the prayer hall and stole equipment, wreaking havoc that many community members believed must have been at least partly …
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times
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3/13/23
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