Wrapping up its short run at the Centralia Tigers Classic — and the 2022 portion of its season — the Centralia girls basketball team came up short against 3A Lakes, fading off in the …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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Barbara Walters, the groundbreaking political journalist who interviewed presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, died Friday. She was 93.
Walters’ death was announced by her …
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Joseph Wilkinson / New York Daily News (TNS)
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12/30/22
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The best man we knew, James (Jim) Theodore Austin, died on Christmas Day at the age of 78. Jim was born Feb. 12, 1944 in Chehalis, Washington to Paul Theodore “Ted” and Retha (Lindholm) …
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12/30/22
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Calling Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over a decade, one might expect the background droll of congressional staff or the muttering of …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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The former administrator and the estate of the former director of the Centralia Kiwanis Vocational Home, which was reportedly fraught with abuse, negligence and fraud between 1971 and its closure in …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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The holiday season is notorious for excess traffic and excess celebration, which prompted the Washington Traffic Safety Commission to publish in December bleak traffic fatality numbers: a 20-year …
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By The Wenatchee World (TNS)
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12/30/22
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Lewis County is accepting applications to fill a volunteer position on its Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (LTAC).
Applicants must represent an entity that would be eligible to receive lodging tax …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/30/22
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The eccentric and regionally known artist known as RichArt, real name Richard Tracy, died Dec. 22 at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia at the age of 89.
Locally, Tracy was known for …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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It’s been nearly a month since Angie Krause, formerly known as Angie Humphrey, gave her final radio signoff as an officer with the Centralia Police Department, but settling into retirement is a …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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• CAROL N. HUESTIS, 85, Ryderwood, died Dec. 22 in Longview. Arrangements are under the care of Newell-Hoerling’s Mortuary.
• DEBRA L. KRAUSE, 67, Centralia, died Dec. 24 at …
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12/30/22
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CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Malicious Mischief
• Just before 8:05 a.m. on Dec. 28, there was a report of graffiti that was spray painted on a building in the 300 block of …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/30/22
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After reading Karyn Malone's letter in Tuesday's Chronicle letters to the editor (“every glass of milk”) I felt compelled to respond.
Malone, a Seattle resident, was telling me …
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12/30/22
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I agree with the writer who recently submitted a letter to the editor titled “We Need to Take a Hard Look at the Direction of Our Country,” but for different reasons than those posed by …
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12/30/22
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Dear Ethan Michael Asbach and your unnamed girlfriend, Dec. 19 or Dec. 20 marked the four-month anniversary of Aron Christensen’s murder.
Four months was also the age of his heeler …
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12/30/22
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The news of Richard Tracy’s death at age 89 has gotten me thinking about the life and legacy of this public artist and Lewis County original, a creator of what might be called “feral …
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12/30/22
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It’s official: the Washington State Department of Revenue plans to collect the new capital gains income tax that was ruled unconstitutional earlier this year by a lower court …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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12/30/22
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Attacks by owls on humans are extremely rare but may be increasing in frequency in Washington according to one expert on the winged creatures.
Jonathan C. Slaught, a biologist specializing on …
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By Lawrence Wilson / The Center Square
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12/30/22
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Through fires, floods and everyday life in the greater Lewis County area, Chronicle Photo Editor Jared Wenzelburger was there to capture big moments and compelling images in 2022. Here are photos he …
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12/30/22
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Starbucks broke the law by refusing to negotiate with newly unionized workers at 21 stores across the Pacific Northwest, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by National Labor Relations Board …
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By Renata Geraldo / The Seattle Times
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12/30/22
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