Cori Jo Duncan, a W.F West High School graduate and Lewis County resident, was able to step out of her routine in Chehalis as a fourth grade teacher at Orin Smith Elementary and do an educational …
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By Brenna Witchey / brenna@chronline.com
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9/18/24
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Lewis County’s 4-H competitors were highly successful in the swine department at the Washington State Fair, which began Aug. 30 and lasts through Sept. 22 in Puyallup.
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By The Chronicle staff
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9/17/24
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From a person who staged UFO hoaxes with friends as a teenager to a U.S. Navy radar operator who spotted about 100 objects over 10 days appearing to descend from “low earth orbit,” the …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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9/16/24
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The Centralia College Foundation awarded 438 scholarships to approximately 390 Centralia College students at a scholarship event on Wednesday.
Students had the opportunity to sit down with the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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9/13/24
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Scrub Hub, a program launched by Jacki Jewell, executive director of the Visiting Nurses Foundation, and her mother, Lorri Speer, the nursing assistant program director at Centralia College, …
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By Brenna Witchey / brenna@chronline.com
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9/11/24
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Editor's note: The following story is part of a series highlighting the members of the 2024 Washington State Athletic Hall of Fame Class. The Hall of Fame induction took place Sept. 6-7 at the …
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By Jason Krump / wsu.cougars.com
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9/9/24
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More than 8,000 athletes from 111 countries converged in Gothenburg, Sweden, for 11 days in August to compete in the World Masters Athletics Championships (WMAC), an annual competition for track and …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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9/4/24
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Thousands of attendees poured in throughout the day at the Veterans Memorial Museum on Sunday, Sept. 1, as the museum hosted the ninth annual Rust or Shine Car Show and Music Festival in Chehalis.
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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9/2/24
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Fifty-six years after being killed in action on March 11, 1968, atop Phou Pha Thi mountain in Laos’ Houaphan Province during the Vietnam War, U.S. Air Force Sergeant David Stanley Price finally …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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8/30/24
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Time is usually limited when Riverside Fire Authority Lt. Jason Shepherd arrives at an overdose.
With nearly two decades of experience, Shepherd, who coordinates Emergency Medical Services for …
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By Mitchell Roland / mitchell@chronline.com
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8/30/24
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Amid the announcement that this year’s Southwest Washington Fair had the highest attendance of any fair “in recent memory” — with 88,370 visitors over the six days it was open …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/30/24
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On Monday, Aug. 26, the Salvation Army of Centralia held their back-to-school drive and “Lewis County Get Connected” fair, which included free school supplies, free lunch and a number of …
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By Brenna Witchey / brenna@chronline.com
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8/28/24
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The 124-year-old building on Jackson Highway where Mary McCrank’s used to be in south Chehalis now has two new businesses calling it home — Medical Massage & Acupuncture and Summit …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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8/25/24
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As it prepares to merge with another chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star of Washington, Chehalis Chapter No. 3 is donating the remainder of its nearly $130,000 budget to a variety of …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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8/19/24
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Ian Reed calls himself a “weather geek” and he had been anticipating Saturday afternoon’s lightning storm all day.
A nature photographer, Reed works for the nonprofit Mount St. …
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By Mike Rogoway / The Oregonian (TNS)
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8/19/24
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When Jim Corbett, of Edmonds, found a violin for sale in a Seattle pawn shop around 35 years ago, he purchased it believing what the pawn shop told him, that it was built in Chehalis in 1972.
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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8/16/24
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When Monica Jimenez was tagged on a social media post about the KELA/KMNT Diaper Derby happening at the Southwest Washington Fair, she jumped at the chance to register her baby, Jayce Nakano.
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/15/24
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Hadleigh Westover, whose mother describes her as “wild,” might not be tall enough to be a cowgirl, but she’s certainly a trailblazer: Southwest Washington Fair Association officials …
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By Jared Wenzelburger / For The Chronicle
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8/13/24
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