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The coronavirus pandemic has shown us how easy it is to take things for granted. Family barbecues, baseball games and kids going to school are just a few examples.
As some of our old way of life …
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I was pleasantly surprised to pick up Thursday’s edition of The Chronicle and read that columnist John McCroskey has decided to take up writing opinion pieces once again.
Then I read his …
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By Michael Wagar / For The Chronicle
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5/7/21
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Last Saturday at 7 a.m., a frail tree fell on a long-gone homestead near Tumwater. This quiet collapse would have gone unheeded, but this was a famous tree that had many good friends looking after …
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By Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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5/7/21
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After taking some time off from writing a column for The Chronicle, I was offered a chance to bring back my commentaries.
After some thought, I’ve decided to do just that.
These …
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I’ve had a quotation in my file cabinet for years now, and a note I wrote on it shows that I already included it in a column once, but recent action tells me it bears repeating.
“I …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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5/5/21
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A few weeks ago, a large yellow orb appeared in the sky and gave me a terrible fright. After delving into the deepest parts of my memory and figuring out what the warm, floating matter was, I did …
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By Jonathan Haukaas
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5/5/21
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A week ago U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler added her voice in opposition to the proposal by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) to acquire about 9,600 acres of …
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5/3/21
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Last weekend marked an annual rite of spring — the day I pick up colorful bowls filled with DeGoede Bulb farm flowers sold by local high school students as a fundraiser.
I had to scout …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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5/3/21
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From the outside looking in, some might be perplexed by the vocal and consistent opposition to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s proposed acquisition of thousands of acres of …
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By Chad Taylor
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4/30/21
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The Chehalis River Basin benefits from the Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority-funded airport pump project.
An important component of the Chehalis Basin Strategy of reducing flood damage and …
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4/30/21
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Not too long ago, TV channel 9 repeated a program about the sad event that happened in 1992 on Ruby Ridge, a small spot in the northern panhandle of Idaho.
It was the epicenter for a small …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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4/28/21
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Regardless of how one feels about the budget passed by this year’s Legislature, all Washington taxpayers should be appalled by the process. Lawmakers continue to embrace an opaque process that …
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By The Columbian Editorial Board
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4/28/21
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The Desert Fox, a historic heavy fighter bomber moved three years ago to the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis, will receive a facelift this spring, courtesy in large part to the F-105 …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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4/26/21
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One year ago, the former owners of The Chronicle sounded the alarm in the form of a front-page editorial notifying the community this newspaper was in danger.
As businesses shuttered and …
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By Chad and Coralee Taylor
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4/23/21
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If there’s one thing that Americans agree on — and one thing that we actually have the power to control with our everyday actions — it’s that we want to build things in …
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By Brian Mittge / For The Chronicle
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4/23/21
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In 1968, a song by the Beatles hit the airwaves — “Let it be.”
Some of the most poignant words of this timely classic are, “and when the broken-hearted people living in …
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4/23/21
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April is National Volunteer Month. I would like to share some of the reasons I volunteer and the benefits of volunteering.
According to the American Psychological Association, some benefits to …
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By Sheila Johnson Teeter
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4/21/21
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In last week’s column, I wrote about a chance meeting with a large and seemingly suspicious cat who my own cat, Sam, and I encountered underneath a rhododendron shrub while doing some garden …
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4/21/21
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With the beautiful weather and our state’s opening COVID-19 vaccinations to anyone 16 or older, there is a welcome sense of hope that we might finally be turning the corner in this pandemic. …
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By Dr. Kevin Caserta
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4/21/21
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Two decades ago, in 2001, Chaplain Scott Crossfield parachuted into Afghanistan with 198 men in the U.S. Army’s 3rd Ranger Battalion and Special Forces — only five weeks after terrorists …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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4/19/21
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